Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 25, 1912, Page 3

Grand Uapids Herald-Uevic VoL, XXIII. —No 26 Imperfoah Fagy- Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., WepNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1912 Ay wee Two Dollars a Year 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. thy with iorthe appropria Minnesota tion from to what, i and seh¢ buildir | ate irpose of ds in the ons 3 for th and rc now unde portions of the state, state auditor last week. Tt vas pro- sti of Develop- posed at tt the ‘Northern ment associa is ood one continued ‘Mr. rso While the state ¢ specifically pro- hibits of state and opriation 1 get around schools. z the believe. “Tt is hat good and goods roads must be provided. are the will section of the state by in search for a new location in to begin lif . This is ook St. ing and there is sions, I schools farmers such a vast acreage of state land| jthat will aecrue from the ques- | tions that were taken up at Crook- jston Mr. Buck said: “Better in- | ducements must be offered to | settlers. We have the finest {tion of country in the northwe ili is well wooded, well we ithe soil is unusually fertil the c rates however, will keep farm- e away, and a new ntry such as this, where so ‘the land is owned by the not taxable, the burden icost of all the improvements on the settlers. | “This should not be. Me d to develop northeaste nesota. It will be the jdairy and truck garden d the world some time, but t jis | ‘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 | fin Canada, the Dakotas and Mon- (tana. “Yhe first thing a new country needs is good roads. The t is ischools. Without them the better | of farmers will not locate, here. They want a place where ti ,visit. with their neighbors, and {where their children will have an | opportunity to acquire an education. ela ‘These things cost money. If an ap- } |propriation is made by the legisla- \ture-sufficient to cover what the tax 'on state land would amount to, they jeould be be provided without tax- jing the settler to death. I hope ithe: bill carries. ; “fam glad this proposition was brought up. Miss Annie Shel- land, supreintendent of se of i Koochiching county, has the ror of putting forward the pl lieve, and with men li Hartley and W. A. MeGo: Jurge on the project, I thi {should be no question of j ec Howeve 1 who are their inte and those of north- ern Minnesota should write their senators and representativ questing them to give the sition their aid.” ITASGA LOGGERS ARE still remaining unsold. | PLEASED AT OUTLOOK “Under the present plan, if, say | 40 families settle in a township where the balance of the land is}B, P, Munson of Grand Rapids, | owned by the state, they are t ed for all the improvements t 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. was supposed to be at the rate of five cents per ac 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 fromthe 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 sees... and M. Callahan of Ray, Look for Average Season. While in Duluth the other d 1B. P. Munson, one of the ters of Itasca cou interview in which he | cedar oul a ates his {that he is far from through operat- 1 ISOn @s- ing in this section, Mr. Mt timates that he will get out about 60,000 ties this winter. In speaking of the cedar siutation, he “While cedar is becoming scarce, E will not be compelled to worry over contracts for a year or two yet. I recently compleied a deal for 11,000 acres of standing timber. the biggest part of which is cedar. | “T have already secured options jon standing stuff to fill my 1913 contracts and will not be compelled to touch this stand until next fall.” M. Callahan, ef 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, jand 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- almost to put a premium on theft by which stolen goods become E. L, Buck of Cohasset, Tells Du- | prove that he has had possession of luth Paper That Farmer Shoule be Helped. “T heartily favor to get a bill through the leg ture providing for an appropria- tion equa! to the tax there would be on state and school lands if| they were privately owned,” sa d| E. L. Buck of Cohasset to a News! Tribune reporter while in Duluth | last week. mortal hours and $35 and what have | This question was discusesd at | you got to show for it the Crookston meeting of the North- ern Minnesota Development associa-| tion, and a resolution was adopted | approving it. In speaking of the good results | the proposition | D ,_|the place is a veritable Mecca for the jlight fingered gentry and their enter- | | prising friends. | honest member | 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 as also for the more of society, who secure many a tempting bargain. An Even Break. Mr. Jinks—You’ve spent fourteen 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. ey can | more | the property of the thief if he can | ‘THE DEER RIVER MEETING JAN, 9 Itasca County Development Asso- Grand Rapids Business Man Be-| ciation Will Have Interesting Program. the “Htasea The January County Developr be held at Deer R miniltee for program ¢ 9 of th assoc vill announte the subjects and speakers next week. The ar e mittee have everythi at Dee in rr ception abd when th arrive in that hospitable town. The 5 sured that an d important program ed and it hoped entatives will be present from tions ¢ he county. Matt affairs will be proposed for rep: all se s plans of certain improve directions. CHRISTMAS GIFTS BY SUNDAY SCHOOL Presbyterian Remember Those Less Fortunate in Their Cele- brations. | The annua | ment of the of the Pr will vas mouech 2 Of to the King occasi ed aS Prog: ion these the on ion of ted tu $f ) donated for Sard in money besides f mission DS > on. Sux F which y the diffe s follows: othe: none, Whe likely to receive . $411.65 fo be fund for new si hooks. No. 6, Christmas ts tothe child in the hospital. Class No. Christmas dinner lily in i. Class N and cloth- ass No. ruil to added to to needy ing $1.00 worth of lelp out a Bible ¢ $ | eries and provis 3 jiles. The Junio * society | dressed dolls and p ed them {to needy children. The plate col- | lection, amounting to $7.80 will be jexpended fo inday school or | charitable we 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- j tended, the parents and smaller brothers and sisters haviing been especially invited to this gather- ing. andy and fam- ARCHBISHOP IRELAND. St. Paul Prelate Has Been Fifty-one Years a Priest. venerable n the se-- his home St. Paul the y-lirst anniversary of his. ordination as a priest. The archbishop declared j that he was in the best of health and "expected to see many more repeti- ‘tions of the day. ion to} are | to be| THINKS FARMERS ARE | lieves That Holding Potatoes Will Not Help Market. Farmers in Itasea county are hold-| mito over £00,000 bushels of po- oes in the hope of receiving bet- |ter prices in the spring, ac ‘to Henry Hughes, one of the lead- jing merchants, who gave his views to a Duluth paper last week. ; Mr. Hughes stated that the in- jcrease in the country’s yield of po- tatoes for the present year over 1911 198,000,090 bushels, and to. this | fact he ascribes the cause of the | ipresent low price, 'bushel. He does not believe the re- | port that the e 25 cents per stern potatoes have j been attacked by rot in the cel- ilars and warehouses is true, and s of the opinion that unless con- ‘ditions change perceptably during ;the next two months, the present llow prices will hold next spring. | “Te is an overproduction of potatoes, aid, \farmers who are holding onto their lerops will be doomed to disappoint- |ment if they are doing so with the jhope of better p: . Potatoes are {a drug on the market, even at the | son of M . It became one {pre it time. Conditions in Itasca | of the popular songs of the county is typical of northern Min-| French r tion. Napoleon whistled | jnesota. L believe, and next spring you will see the market flooded T took in the vicinity Grand Rapids recently and uined that at La Prairie, Grand id Cohasset there are still rs in the cell and root |houses. Big potato s like N. Mullins of La Prairie, and William Hoolihan of Grand Rapids, have not yet marketed any of” their j crop.” Mr. Hughes was on his way to Columbus, Wis., where he will vis- it over the holidays with relatives. a canvas as- “HAL 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 j mine, unst the Wisconsin coms steel | MeCler an 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, jor until the fee owner and operator leffeet a settlement. | In this action the fee owner is seeking to restrain the operating company from mining and shipping what is 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 w constructed for the purpose of mak- ing unmerchantable ore merchant- able, and as to the quantity and quality of ore ly 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 . 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 take care of one’s body in the win- {ter time, are equally dangerous. Both usually pave the way for a j long Journel unaccompanied. The hazzard may be removed from each led longer. If the man with the wet shoes had removed them when he jreached home, he probably would have avoided the subsequent pneu- ‘ monia. There is no‘better treatment for cold that the old fashioned time- jer used to make” a hot bath to the wa MAKING: MISTAKE. rding | “and I believe ; hy, operators and lease hold-; *s Christinas din- | e's which is being heard in the dis- | vorth of groe-|trict court at Duluth before Judge | a Missouri mule and neglecting to! | spoken, he probably would have liv-} | tried remedy, “the kind that moth- | feet, some ginger tea rm bed, and blanke’ beware of pa would of a pesti-| that a mu feet will do mo cold than will a gal at two dol than medicine Re lence, | jug, {tor is eh and t one int I. Many a all beeau outset. Reme the man who had the mule j the one who had wet shoes. ‘care in time. Take | A VERY ANCIENT TUNE. | It Is Also Probably the Most Popular One in the World. established | id is the air fa- We Won't Go The origin of the , but Louis Elson be- lieves that was composed | as a love song in the tenth century or | earlier by one of the troubadours, the | wanderin: trels of southern ; France. ¢ briand, the French writer. heard it he suggested that it might have been | carried to the orient by the French cru- | saders. and san: roughout his life. Beetho- ven use p of the themes of his “Battle Symi y.”" | It has be one of the most Europe. And there ten-yea does ne The brook s ed by some f during the v popular street songs in | probably not aj in America who | inning “Mal-! were invent: | rench soldier r of the Spanish succes sion. They scribe 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.” The song France w! it up from t employed spread died out ntoinette ¢ nt nurse she baby: thereu} songs do in Fr had i! t yr the red poses of th to the tune and it has in thé world WON THE JURY. Railroad Lost Its Case. A number of ago Benj Butler w guest of friends in Bro lyn. During bis visit be noted the rule! of the street railway companies ¢ pelling conductors to register fares soon as passengers entered the ¢ and before the fares were actually cc lected. Two or three years after he represented the plaintiff in a da suit for $15,000 in which a Brooklyn | street railway company was the de-| fendant. The princ witness for) the company was the conductor of the car on which the accident occurred, | and his testimony was so strong as make things look bad for Butler's ¢ ent. But Butler recalled the unus' 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 ear and then finds he is on the wrong | line. on your returns for that fare? 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- | 000.” Butler's client received a verdict.— | Brooklyn Eagle. ; “Spanish Mutton.” Dog meat, we learn from the Frank- with proper care. If the man had ' furter Zeitung, is largely sold in Ger- {been affable and approached the Many, and more especially) in Saxony, | mule in a gentlemanly way, and its | | be it as Spanish mutton, and ' their customers are less chary of ask- | ing for it. | Catfish in FE ! same euphemistic w time when this fi the shops. Then some fishmongering | | genius invented the name of “rock | | salmon,” and b-stowed it upon the | despised catfish. which now has an es- | tablished place n the market——London Chronicle | ers de: nd is treated In the y. There was a by the Arabs, and | } {desired the circuit, which will, if fo a ; | Wadena. | concerned. | dor ibe well r rq | tnecting on Dec. 30, although it MAY BE FORMED 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. \ special counties int clude the 0 ( on, Secretary dena has receivec Warner of the Wadena c tive to which time is po fair circuit ” a good tl doubt some niums, Endorsing a special frc une Che a Prive started News Ht was provement outl the os A Couple of Shrewd Queries and the sel do hots {tion an opt pre ‘ts to a sort of su would meet ement ¢ Itasca e« thought facto sath the meeting fer the hol he that County Fair ged so as paper ut the for ny the opinig. from Wade ipune says t the s taker moveme oa fair Wadena sunties of Aitkin, € Wing, 1 POW J. loa Aitkin; sociely Aifkin o matte 1 circuit w inted out rat as is propo ting ford dates could be uniformity as to x purses, ¢ could the above pr mm Grand Rapids to Mo oposition, he ing Sunday's mounceiment i ine that Aithi county bt omoverment te bring eived wi aPMers aie who could today. Vit northern own. Tt is e the mnity te the best pplementary cil sec " display its advantage with ¢ ms ne ym all sides, ry will undoubtedly nted at the Aitkin sati a more would result ne were to take place af& idays. Garingar-Avery Wedding, Christmas celebration for Earl {ual training teacher in school at he will marr Grand Rapi ded in a ne them on Kate strec ris Suver of cher, al pre Do you state that fact to your/ger came to Marble from | superiors, and do they make allowance | City, Mich., where he was jtor of manual training, twe ago. He ha and is well ebureh affa saba. Miss al Sunday s moved to G lias work; being been lof the Meth ident of th identified memorable er, Man~ will be the Olcott Marble, for today ry Miss Edith Avery of ds. They will be wed- -~w home all ready fer t, Rev. Mx. Or- Hill ¢ officiating. Mr. ty, formerly les- years s been ssful known in and irs oh the Western Me- Avery Marble very suc inal wool came te ing to the jury, “the company asks you | fre m. Kansas about two years age. to take this conductor's word for $15,-; She was closely identified with loo~ nool work until she re- and Rapids where she with church a member of the choir odist church, alse pres- e Epworth ue. Taconite Mines Active. Stripping prosecuted onite and it is be added in ovels wil of men em! winter mon j during jthe Oliver Iron Mir Two shovels are now r never seen in | erburden at the Judd properties rations are le ‘BS in the vicinity of Tas- all of the winter by company. moving Ov- said that another will a short time. The three 1 keep a large number ployed throughout the ths. ee rr u J /