Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 15, 1913, Page 1

a 2 | VoL, XXIII. —No 29 Granp Rapips, ITasca CouNTY, | GOOD ATTENOAGE MUCH INTEREST Deer River Meeting of Itasca County Development Associa- tion Best of Season. AFTERNOON AND EVENING SESSIONS Time Filled With Interesting Dis- cussiens and Splendid Banquet at Hotel Everton— Next Meeting at Keewatin. When the Itasca County Develop- ment association reorganized some time ago, and the new officials put some real ginger into the dis- charge of their duties, consider- able interest was shown by citi- zens in the first gathering held at €oleraine. About one hundred men had place at the tables spread at Hotel Arcana. Public affairs and business generally was discussed; plans to induce settlement were suggested and withal it was pro- nounced to have been one of the best and most result-getting gath- erings of the kind ever held in this section of Minnesota. Every- body present was inspired with en- thusiasm. It was generally remark- ed that the Coleraine meeting was probably the best of the series that would be held. But when a Project of publie concern is head- ed by such men as Supt. Vandyke and A. J. MeGuire, the interest can- not get slow. They have faith in their undertaking and inspire oth- ers with the same faith. And 80“ it-wasthat“the Deer River meeting held Jast Thursday afternoon and evening was even better than that at Coleraine. It was a time of business, education and pleasure throughout, The pro- gram ocmmittee had prepared a splendid program that filled the hours of the afternoon and until atfer one o'clock in the morning. President J. A, Vandyke, super- intendent of schools for district No. 2, who is president of the as- sociation, opened the afternoon session in a general resume of the object and aim of the organization. He laid particular stress upon the necessi of improved highways, and gave some of his personal ex- periences and observations since becoming a resident of Itasca coun- ty. Cyrus M.King came up from St. Paul to be present, and in an ad- dress at the afternoon session, went over the road situation from, a statewide view. He told of the many projects now under way un- der direction of the state highway commission, as they relate to north- ern Minnesota, and particularly to Itasea county. It is evident from the information given by Mr. King that there will be much doing in the way of road building in this vicinity during the coming year. J. B. Michela, chief of the Oliv- er Mining company’s range police force, presented a very interest- ing paper on the subject of a mounted county patrol. This pro: posed system of policing a county is a new idea, and attracted much comments. Mr. Michela had evident- ly given the subject much thought and he was able to show that it contained many advantages over our present system. Forest rang- ers and game wardens as they now operate, might be incorporated in the new system. One of the main features of the plan proposed would be the constant keeping in touch with every settler in the county by frequent: and regular visits to the rural homes. Supt. George E. Keenan of the Deer River schools, also discussed the mounted patrol system. In another issue the Her- ald-Review will give more detail- ed consideration to the subject. The business session was held in the afternoon at which resolu- tions were adopted, reports made and a vote recorded to hold the next meeting at Keewatin on March 6th. At 7:30 in the evening the mem-|commercial club of Deer River for | }¢!d until instructions bers of the association sat down to a splendid banquet at Hotel Everton. Following the sumptuous repast, Mayor Fred Breid of the village of Deer River welcomed the guests to which President Vandyke responded. “What Itasca Expects of Its Coun- ty Officiats,’ was discussed by A. H. Randall of Arbo, as a farmer, by Frank Provinsky of Bovey as a merchant, and by C, E. Bur- gess of Cohasset, representing the | schools. Each of the three speak- ers expressed regret that the! county commissioners were not present “in bulk” to take their | ” As it was, some crit- d but not of acon- |demning che . Mr. Randall and | Mr. Provinsky could see where | some improvements might be made, | and some money saved, in the mat- ter of road building. Mr. Burgess ; offered some suggestions to the county officials as to how they | could work harmoniously, and help- fully with the school officials. Coun-} ty Attorney McOuat responded on behalf of the county’s representa- tives in office. Inasmuch as the critics had all taken occasion to 'pay tribute to the county attorney's | ‘efficiency and capabilities, he was Gal Two, oGod attend.. RD not inclined to treat them severe- ly. “No more than any man can conduct his private business with- out making mistakes, can the pub- lie official be expected to be in- fallable,” said Mr. McOuat. “We all do things in our official capac- ities that time demonstrates should not have been done, and we leave undone things which should have been done,” said he. “But if we do the best we can, and profit by experience, growing in proficiency as we grow older, good results can- not fail to follow.” Mr. McOuat confidentially admitted in the course of his remarks that hé had com- mitted some errors during the two years he had served as county at- torney, but promised he would not 4 be guilty of repeating the same errors—if he made more, they would be new ones. “Legislation,” was the subject as- | signed to E. C. Kiley of Grand Rap- ids and W. J. Stock of Coleraine. It is needless to state this import- ant “umber on the program wis ably and exhaustively deat with. Mr. Stock has hitherto served in the Minnesota state legislature and Mr. Kiley is a defeated candidate for the honor. The speakers endeav- ored to impress upon those pres- | ent the importance and far-reach- ing influence of public sentimnet upon legislation, and also the, nec- essity of keeping in touch with Measures in which the county is interested, and to have no hesitan- ey in communicating individual and community views upon these subjects to our representative in the state legislature. Reapportion- ment, reclamation, state funds, pub- lic domain, agriculture and public highways were included in propos- ed legislation that should be giv- en attention by every eitizen and urged before the ltw making body. Mr. C. C. Peterson of Grand Rap- | ids was among those who took part in the general discussion, and his remarks were received with much favor. In referrence to criticism of | county officials, Mr. Peterson cau- tioned the public not to be too |free to condemn. “Of course,” he admitted, “dishonest and incompet- ent men get elected to office. In a large body liké the state legisla- ture, for instance, we could hardly expect complete freedom from objec- tionable members. The Savior, him- self, was unable to select twelve honest men to serve him. How can we poor mortals expect to be free from traitors? The best we can do. is to watch them, and when a bad jone is found, expose him.” Dr. Hursh of Cohasset, gave some per- tinent views on road building; more economic methods in construc- tion of highways, etc. As chairman of the resolutions committee R. A. McOuat submit- ted the report, which was unanim- ously adopted. The subjects treat- ed are given below in brief: i The congressional representative was urged to support all measures granting federal aid for the build- ing of rural highways. This sub- { jeet will also be presented to the | state legislature by a committee | representing the association. | Taxation of state lands; urged | county commissioners to name as- sistant state engineer; endorsed | proposed mounted patrol sysetim; | county agricultural teacher; ligis- “roastings.” icism was offe! ASSAULTED COOKEE — WARBA MAN ON WITH A HAMMER) » ITASCA CONDITION Patrick Sullivan Raps John Ulvich/T.. R. Foley Says Brick Yard Will Over the Head and is in be in Operation Again on Jail as Result. ' February, 1. ) Sheriff 'T. T, Riley returned Fri-|_ # F. Foley of Warba, was in Du- day from Camp No. 4 of the Bachus-|!U¢h the other day, and after com- Brooks company in 60-24, bringing | P menting the News-Tribune of with him Patrick Sullivan, charged | that city on the work it is help- by John Ulrich with assault. It} # to in calling attention to the seems that Ulrich was employed as|#4¥antages of this section, said that cookee at the camp where. Sullivani st 30 afmilies will settle in the was cooking. Ulrich became dissat-;Yi€utity of Warba this spring. He isfied with his job, called for and re-, Stated that the land in that vicin- ceived his time. The next morn-|#¥ is well wooded but easily clear- ing he went into the cook camp and | ed, Men who a few years ago start- as no one had been secured to take | a out with nothing but amibtion his place, he proceeded to help out | have well kept farms now and are until such time as he could cateh ‘on road to comfortable ae ride to town. While thus employed, | &#&e- * Sullivan upbraided him for quitting The Warba brickyard, which has to which Ulrich replied that he{ Deen shut down for a time, will presumed he had the right to do Siart operations again Feb. 4, Mr.|- so.if he wished. Sullivan thereupon grabbed a hammer and struck the r cookee three times in the head;|!y all the output is consumed local- knocked him unconscious. As soom and on the range. Red and sand the injured man was able, he had | btiek are made, while the yard al- his assailant arrested and he was|8¢ specializes in white facing brick. brought before Judge Bailey for| Surveyors in the employ of the hearing Monday morning, when, in} State highway commission, Mr. Fol- default of $400 bail, he was bound4€y reported, are already at work in over to the next grand jury on a}Itasca county, laying out the route charge of assault in the second de-|for the trunk highway from Duluth ley said. The capacity of the plant & about 42,000 bricks daily, Near- » WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1913 lative and congressional reappor- tionment; thanks were expressed | to the citizens generally and the | the hospitality extended to the vis- | iting delegates. | Booster supper Thursday. gree. LOCKS ARE DENIED FOR THE RESERVOIRS Engineers Report Unfavorubly. on Locks at Leech, Winnibigosh- ish and Pokegama. Lieut. Col. Chas. L. Potter of the corps of engineers, U.S, A., has-is- sued a circular letter advising with reference to reservoirs at headwat- ers of the Mississippi, with a view te the construction of locks inthe dams heretofore built at Pokegama, Winnibigoshish and Leech lakes, in the state of Minnesota. You are hereby informed that the prelimin- ary examination of the locality nam- ed, with a view to certain improve- ments therein, authorized by the act of Congress approved July 25, 1912, has been made, and that the report submitted . thereon is unfay-! orable to the improvement. * You are further notified that all interested parties have the privi- lege of an appeal from this conclu- sion to the Board of Engineers for rivers and harbors, a permanent body sitting at Washington, D. C., to which all examination and sur- vey reports of this character are referred. Parties desiring to do so may be heard on appeal by the said board, either orally or in writing. Written. communications should be addressed to the Board of Engin- eers, for River and Harbors, Room 733, Southern Building, Washington D. €., and should be mailed in time to be in the possession of the said ; board within three weeks from hte | date of this communication. If oral hearings are desired, dates for the same may be arranged for by cor- respondence with the board. GOLD AND BOOZE TAKE MAN’S LIFE Mike Shewsburg Drinks Too Much and His Frozen Body is Found Near Deer River. The body of M. Shrewsburg, aged! about 50, of Davenport, Iowa, who froze to death near Effie Friday night, was brought here by Deputy Coroner Herried this afternoon, sayz a Deer River news ~~ ort; It is learned that Shrewsbure, who was employed by the Shevlin- Mather Lumber company as a har- ness maker, became intoxicated at Effie Friday atfernoon and about 7 p. m., started for camp, about three miles distance. Nothing more was heard of him until po ee when his dead body was diseoyered by a settler alongside the Itasea tracks. It is supposed he fell asleep and never awakened. Relatives at Davenport have been notified and the body is being are received. Attend the old settlers meet- ing at Herald-Review office: Saturday evening. to St. Vincent. The road will fol- low the route of the Great North- ern railroad. It is understood that a Wisconsin company will shortly acquire con- trol of the Warba Hardware fac- tory. This factory employs about 50 nien when the plant is running to full capacity, which is about 10,000,- 000 feet per year. JUDGE M’CLENAHAN Wisconsin Company Enjoined From teaeeng OF 1 Waciog «Judge W. S. McClenahan has ren- dered a decision in the mining case jf the Mississippi Land company. vs | te Wisconsin Steel company heard L. the jurist in Duluth, involving tue Nashwauk property. ‘As conclusions of law finds that jmeither of the said leases contem- | plates, provides for or permits the weighing of ore in any manner ex- {cept by the transportation com- ny transporting the same from the lands and neither of them con- templates, provides for or permits the weighing in the manner in which the defendant has weighed such thereof as has been re- moved since May, 1912, from the mine to the washing plant. | The Missssiippi Land company is ntitled to judgment forever re- ining and enjoining the Wis- msin Steel company from re- ving from the lands in question ie ‘jron ore except in such manner the the same may be weighed by ortation company trans- tii same; from substitut- ig for the weighing provided: in id leases a weighing on a scale 1 scales furnished by the defend- ant; and from substituting any othe manner of wigehing the iron ore mined and removed for.the manner of weighing provided in safd.leases laintiff is to have and recover its osts hereby allowed at $10 and its disbursements herein to be taxed. @udgment was entered and a writ f° injunctions issued accordingly. stay of sixty days was granted. In his memorandum Judge Mc- Clenahan states that the real ques; ion in this case is not the right f the Wisconsin Steel company to wash the ores mined under its leases with plaintiff; it undoubted- ly has the right to do so, or other- wise to treat and dispose of these ores, provided that, by so doing, there is no substantial departure from the terms of its contracts. “The process of washing is not covered by any express. provision of the leases in question,” says the court, “put neither is the treatment of the ore products at the furnaces, A system of weighing the ore, so as to furnish an accurate basis for the payment of royalties and trans- portation charges, is so expressly covered, however, and a-change in system is the cause of the liti- gation, and whether such change jis-in violation of the contract is here the controling feature. I can= ct/not avoid the conclusion that the system of weighing under the GRANTS, INJUNCTION defendant's practical control, is es- sentially different from the sys- tem which gave such controll to the transportation company trans- porting the ore, whose interests in the results was, in an important. respeet, identical with that of the plaintiff. This is a valuable right which a court of equity should protect. I have not overlooked the fact, uncontridicted in this record, that the defendant has expended large sums of money in the work of developing this mine and con- structing this washing plant, but that cannot justify the court in re- fusing to restrain a breach of these contracts in the matter of weighing where the showing is otherwise such as to invoke equitable inter- ! ference. I am satisfied the court ‘should not undertake to devise a substitute for or modification of either of these systems of weigh- ing sinee the performance of that feature would be continuous and would require protracted supervi- sion and direction.” > The land in question lies in Itas- ca county and is described as the parts of sections 31 and 32, town- ship 57, range 22. On July 1, 1904, the Mississippi Land Company in two leases leased to Orrin D. Kin- ney, George H. Crosby and E. B. Hawkins the lands for a term of thirty years with a royalty of 20 cents per gross ton, weights to be determined by the transportation company. On and after June 1; 1907, the defendant, the Wisconsin Steel company, became the owner of the leases. A body of 22,000,000 tons of ore was discovered, of which 14,000,000 tons had an aver- age of 56 per cent iron, and 7,000,- 000 an average of about 45 per cent and 1,000,000 tons an average of 35 per cent. Before 1911 further ex- plorations revealed an additional ore body underlying the first ore body and eontaining about 15,000,- 000 tons having an average of 44 the years from 1902 to 1912, the Great Northern Railway company transported 2,166,047 tons of ore. In 1911-1912 the defendant built a j washing plant and installed ang. xemoye 526.530 tons of iron-ore. ee a vs hoatibek 986,000: containing an average of 60 per cent: iron. The defendant, pears, wished to continue washing operations and the plaintiff object- ed to his removing large quantities of ore, which, except for the wash- ing wouid have been unmerchant- j able. ‘TO DOMESTICATE WILD ANIMALS Hibbing Man Will Ask Legislature for Permissiou to Keep Them in Captivity. J.F. Wilkie of Hibbing was here this week in attendance at the term of court now being held, and incidentally to secure support for a measure which he hopes to get introduted and passed by the pres- ent legislature. The bill is entit- led; “An” act to permit all resi- dents and citizens of the state of Minnesota to take, domesticate and keep in captivity for commer- cial purposes, deer, moose, ¢ari- bau and all wild fur-bearing ani- mals.” The bill would exclude any animals such as the wolf, for the | destruction of which bounty is paid Mrv-Wilkie says that all senators and repréSentatives thus far ap- proached seem favorable to the measure and a strong effort will be made-to-secure favorable action. Illinois and_ other states already have similar laws, and*farms de- voted to the propagation of fur- bearing animals are not uncommon. _ Woman’s Club Meeting. per cent to 45 per cent iron.” Inj. it ap= - GUILTY TO CHARGE Former Official Admits Issuing Fraudulent School Orders on District No. 1. SENTENCE NOT YET PRONOUNCED Specific Charge on Which Convie tion Was Asked Was Know- ingly Consenting to Pay- ~ ing Fraudulent Bills. F. E. Ruesswig, former director of District No. 4, Itasca county, Monday pleaded guilty to ha allowed, collected and appropri ; thereof in 1910. Irregularities in the school orders issued while Rues~ swig was director came to light last fall, and the school board or- dered an investigation of the case, this being entrusted to a firm of expert accountants. Upon the re=- port of this concern, County Attor- ney McOuat caused the arrest of Ruesswig on the above charge. The grand jury brought in an indict- ment against the accussed on nine counts and his trial was set for the October term of court. The case was continued by Judge Wright at that time until January 14, when it was the first case brought before Judge McClennahan. The specific charge against the former director is issuing’an order in the name of Miss Frances Blun- tach for teaching during the his..own use by Ruesswig, and te this he plead guilty. Judge’ McClennahan has not yet pronounced sentence wishing te look fully into all the conditions surrounding the case before making final decision. BUSINESS 1S GOOD IN ITASCA COUNT! W. C. Gilbert Says Last Year's Conditions Will be Bet- tered During 1913. W. C. Gilbert of Grand Rapids, who is perhaps financially inter- ested in more business enterprises jthan any other man in Itasca coun- ty, was in Duluth the latter part of last week. Like everyone else he is enthusiastic over the outlook ofr the coming year: “Business, generally speaking, is good in Itasca county,” said Mr. Gil- bert, speaking of conditions. “While there have been temporary depres- | ions, still, on the whole, the year 1912 was prosperous for both the settlers and business men and in “;my opinion, 1913 will be even still better. Money is easy. The banks have more on hand than at the same time last year. The best indication of prosperity, however, lies in the fact that borrowers are meeting the obligations more promptly than at any other time since I can remem= ber.” Mr. Gilbert was in Duluth in con- nection with several business deals. He.returned to Grand Rapids Sat- The regular weekly meeting of} urday. Women’s club was ‘held last eve- ning at the public library. “The program subject, , “The Common Did Not Violate Game Laws. Welfare” was under direction of| The case against J. F. Wilkie Mrs, A, A. Reid. Roll-call was ang-|0f. Hibbing under bond on appeal wered with current events relative|from a decision of the justice to common welfare. Then most in-|Court at Coleraine was on Monday teresting and instructive magazine} dismissed by Judge McClenna- articles, dealing with a.pure race, | han in the district court here. The pure food, good houskeéping, good| charge against Mr. Wilkie was that health, ete., were read and .dis-|he had killed a cow moose, and cussed. “Common Welfare” -sub-| he was found guilty by Justice Tres~ jects were also. brought to the at-|cott. It seems tention of the club. The project of} Wood, who cai the club to put an outside entrance | ed the arrest, us- more zeal than discretion, and in basement of library, that the|the district court found that there same might be used for social cen-|Wasnothing to warrant Mr. Wilkie’a ter work and as a rest room, is| being held. meeting with much opposition from citizens, and the wonder is: “Why is this opposition.” Pt iey ‘are looking for goc find it, but—what’s ths. months of Septem! and October, 1910, after, ig, ite had dorsed, collected and converted to ~ Game Warden ~ to his own use, an order on the ~ district while he was an official — =