Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 5, 1913, Page 5

PAGE FOUR “Si Brand Raya Werats-Review Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap. tds, Minn., as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County State grain inspectors are very incompetent, says a newS dispatch. Well, so are most other state em- ployees. What do you expect? rs cranium is made of. And they will. have to yield in the end, anyway. At that the British woman is not as entirely out in the cold as most of her American sisters, for she can at least vote at local elections, he exclusions being merely in the case of candidates for parliament, The equal suffrage agitation is u' in many of the states this winer, before the legislatures. Minnesota has set an example which it is hoped will not be extensively fol- sowed. Women should be given equal suffrage, hot because they are bet- ter than men—although they are —but because they are human be- ings, with the same _ intelligence, responsibilities and cares with Fame comes not always to the ywhich men are burdened. To ex- onward and the worthy— but no- toriety is easy to get, and you} ean’t tell them apart while you are alive. ESSE SPARES Woodrow Wilson is said to be an admirer of Senator LaFollette. Well, Bob can stand all of that kind of thing the president-elect has room for. oi RNs ROSS as Helen Gould that was fed fifteen hundred homeless men at her mis- sion on her wedding day Helen’s wealth has done much to help the poor—and also to make them so. Pe ieee ane A ghost associated with the shade of Prof James has been casting books and rocks at the head of} the medium. Which shows that ghosts have about the same aspir- ations as ordinary people. ood ASE Ss SEE Wilson is now having his troubles with the office seekers. | Still, Woodrow can comfort him- welf with the thought that the| office seekers are doing most of the worrying. 5 ei an can SSE A woman lecturere at Madison, Wis., says it takes more money to dress a man than a woman. She must have in mind somee queer man or new style woman. Any- way it is news. SLPS Bea Chl Cipriano Castro has been refused admission to the United States deeause he is an undesirable alien. Anybody could tell by looking at his whiskers that something bad would happen to him. Ses ee A Minneapolis woman wants a trial divorce, with the right of liv- ing with her husband again if they can patch up their troubles. She isn’t sure she wants anything in particular—except the alimony. ee There may be the virtue in tribulations that they try men’s | souls, but wouldn’t it be nice if the soul trying business could be | done on the soft peddle order, or | at least limited to one direct line | at a time? es eee The city government at St.!} Cloud has forced the plumbers of the city to give up the keys for turning on water in customers’ homes. It is some government that! ean make the village plumber do anything, but the world is moving | along. eels bie SSE SAE The St. Cloud Journal Press last | week issued a sixty page paper, | booming its town and the surround} ing country, the occasion being the fiftieth anniversary of the publi- eation. It was an edition of whic any city in the state might feel proud and does credit to St. Cloud and the enterprising publishers of | its attractive daily. ed THE FOOLISH MAN. The Herald-Review used to have a pretty good opinion of men—and has yet, for that matter. But they do things sometimes that make us keep that good opinion merely from force of habit. Take the killing off of the equal} ‘suffrage amendment in the state sen ate, for instance. That is the kind ef thing that shakes ones faith. Of eourse the state will not suffer greatly on account of it. It can prosper without women’s votes. But it could prosper more and get along more harmoniously with them. The bad part of it is that i& is a case of telling half the grown up population they would be. 2 menace under certain conditions. Everybody knows that in so saying they are telling a bald untruth. The senate is not alone. Other law making bodies, including the English parliament, are in the same fix. The rulers of the tight little isle are now engaged in the noble work of sending their neigh- bor’s wives and daughters to jail Because they insisted on voting. rue, the women have been bound- ing rocks off the heads of the statesmen, but it is not -writen that a rock can do much harm eoming in contact with solid bore, which seems to be the principal clude them is them a square deal. The senate, in refusing to submit the amendment, unconsciously paid the men of the state a high trib- ute. Unwilling to see women vote, it dared not put the matter up to the male voters, knowing that they would do the fair thing py their wives, daughters and sisters by ad- opting the amendment overwhelm- ingly. ~ Lia lal al Bs BORE el RURAL MOUNTED POLICE. to deny On another page of this paper appears an article explaining in de- tail the plan of J. B. Michela, chief of the Oliver Iron Mining company police at Coleraine, for a mounted police patrol in Itasca county. The article will be found well worth reading and pondering over. The plan will appeal to all who are familiar with the needs of a vast district far removed from the centers of population. It is Mr. Michela’s idea to create a force similar in most respects to the Canadian mounted police. The members would patrol the lonely sections, repress disorder, render succor where needed, settle neighborhood troubles, and make arrests when necessary, although that would not be a considerable part of its work. He points out that great suffer- ing might often be averted if such a body of mounted men were in existance, as dwellers in isolated cabins in the wilds are often sick or in want, with nobody to whom to tell their needs, and not a few have gone insane from their suf- fering in such cases. It would be the duty of the mounted officer to call at such cabins on his beat, and where assistance was needed, do what he could at once and secure assistance from the proper author- ities at the earliest possible mo- ment. M That such a police body should We created will be denied by few familiar enough with the needs of the country to give their opinion the right to be considered. And éhat it will be created in time seems reasonably certain. It should be brought into existance this year. Legislation is necessary for this purpose, and it ought to be secured at the present session of the legis- lature. In no other country in the world has men in {the north woods to look after the conservation of the forest and the protection of game, but with a seeming criminal care- lessness or stupidity hires no one to see to the welfare of the set- tler, to look after the pioneer, who, with his family may at any time find himself face to face with a situation, arising from sickness, do mestic disagreement, mental break- down or other cause, so appalling as to be beyond the understanding of the urban dweller. The settler owes Mr. Michela a hdebt for his practical suggestion, and the state and county owes it to the settler to put it into prac- ice. THE NEW REGEME. On March 4, for the first time in 24 years, the United States will have a Democratic president. Woodrow Wilson will be inaugur- ated on that day, and when he comes into power he will have a Democratic congress behind him. The people are naturally asking themselves how the country will fare in the hands of the new re- geme for the next four years, and whether its experience will be such that it will retire the party for another quarter of a century. There seems to be no reason to fear the outcome. Wilson is, per- haps, better fitted than any other fman in public life to inspire the people with confidence. And what is more, he has the country back of him. The reign of trusts, and their rapid growth under the Re- publican policy, with its attendant evils of high cost of living, com- paratively low wages, and the stif- ling of individual effort by making it impossible for the small busi- ness man to prosper, has alien- iated from the opposition the sym- pathy of the public. The scare- material the British statesman's crow of floods of foreign goods i are so large territories allowed to go. unpoliced as in America. The state people to the aid of the ons. Tariff revision is n policy of America, and thi eratic ship cannot split on as in the days of Clevelan There is another questi¢ curbing of the trusts— wh cause trouble, but both republicans and democrats have long been agreed on this, and it does not seem to be a menace. Outside of these it is question of sane admin ion. Wilson has a genius for so it is not probable that ocratic party will loose th government for a good m: If the party should gro with power, as is within & bilities, then it will fall, will weep. But, retaining tue and pursuing its evident mis- sion, it seems due for a long per- iod of usefullness and constructive accomplishment, St SSE SORE hg GEN. SICKLES’ CASE. The case of Gen. Sickles, is let us hope, closed. The old man is to be rescued by a public subscrip- tion from the position in which his own recklessness placed him, that he may die in peace, so for as peace is for one of his kind. The outcome is such as to prove that republics are not ungrate- ful. If any other than the old war hero had been guilty of the crimes chargeable against Sickles, he would long ago. have died upon the seaffold or rotted in a prison. Mur- der, wife abandonment after brand- ing her with undeserved infamy, embezzlement of funds entrusted to him for patriotic purposes, petu- lence, unreasonableness, childish peevishness, uncharitableness and nearly all else that makes for un- cleanness, are not to be denied in tries to forget because he had a her day of trouble. He was in a way an ideal soldier. And yet he gave the nation nothing but what he had to give. How man thousands have given as much, at greater sacrifice, according to their equipment? And it must be remembered that, even in his day of glory the coun- try did more for him than he could possibly repay. The position which it bestowed, and its emolu- ments in cash and fame, were cer- tainly such as to leave it owing him nothing. It seems another case in which, having received all.any man could expect for duties well performed, he thought he was en- titled to more. It begins to be evident that he was less a man than a soldier; that when his life is scanned from all the angles which the public have a right to view it, he was of far less stature than most of his associates about whom fame has been silent. -But it is well that he has been saved the horrors of a prison and its disgrace—well for an old man of his evident disposition and ap- parent lack of appreciation of things as they ought to be. To one keyed to a loftier chord, however, the fact that he had earned the criminals stripes, in view of his vast opportunities, would prove the greater punishment. But it will hardly weigh on the general's soul. His has ever been the Sickles way. He is a spoiled child, long past the age when men should have returned to dust. TOOLE WORKS HARD FOR NEW HIGHWAY Impresses Upon State Commission Necessity of Ssate Road in Itasca and Cass. M. L. Toole, former sheriff of this county, now residing at Feder- al Dam, Cass county, returned from St. Paul Thursday, where he did effective work with the state high- way commission in the interest of a projected state highway, in- tended to pass through Itasca and Cass counties. Mr. Toole laid the petition for the road before the commission, told the members of the big, fer- tilq district it will go far to de- velop and put forward the claims of the country as a growing farming section, which already contains hundreds of settlers whose prosperity is being retarded for want of better roads. The proposed road will traverse the Federal Dam section, on the Soo road, which is rapidly filling up with industrious and substantial farmers, and contains some of the best lands in the north country. Mr. Toole has devoted much time to this question and has accom- plished a great deal in convincing the state commission of the profit that ‘would acerue both to the stat bee the settlers by its construc- ion. SSAC iene. strong arm and a stout heart in ';elated a s _ When the Herald-Review’s search- light of truth throws its burning rays on things polluted, some ra- pid rustling to cover is the usual result, A couple of weeks ago a little story of local interest was cast upon the canvas and the way that fellow Lefevre scrambled to disguise himself was a caution to criminals. He explains to the ex- yof almost a page in a man- at doesn’t explain anything to. e the facts as set forth in esé columns. The dope dealt out by Lefevre is the same used by ‘In his infamous testimony giv- 1 district court when John ne was being sued on the to which he makes refer- ence. Judge W. Cant denounced Le- fevre from the bench for giving false testimony and _ specifically stated that Lafevre’s testimony should be entirely disregarded in arriving at the facts. This is a matter of court record. Disprove this statement, J. Le- fevre, or stand convicted as a self-confessed perjurer. The little story of human inter- est. heretofore published hit the nail so squarely on the head and made Lefevre squirm so furiously tha: it is here reproduced from our unerring searchlight of truth: A LITTLE STORY OF LOCAL INTEREST How Senator D. M. Gunn Was Swindled Out of $300, by J. Lefevre. “J. Lefevre, now _ editor of the Grand Rapids Examiner, had been in the employ of A. J. Dwyer as camp clerk. Dwyer’s business af- fairs became involved and a deal was made whereby John McAlpine, of Duluth, took over Mr. Dwyer’s holdings and assumed Dwyer’s ob- ligations. Senator Gunn was one of Dwyer’s creditors. Some time would elapse before tinal - settlement could be reached. One day Lefev- re appeared before Senator Gunn, his case The nation forgives and|With tears in his eyes, a lump iny his throat, nothing in his stomach and still less in his pocket, and 1 story something like th He was in destitute circumstances; not a dollar with which to buy pro- vision’ for his wife and children; bwyre owed him six hundred dol- lars for services;he couldn't starve himself and allow. his family to starve, while awaiting settlement of the affairs of Dwyer; could Mr. Gunn accommodate him with $150, and take an order for the amount against the Dwyer es- tate? It would be a great favor, ete., etc. Senator Gunn wanted to know why he couldn’t fix his claim up with MeAlpine, who had taken over the entire holdings of Dwyer. “You know the sort of man John Mc- Alpine is,” replied Lefevre. “He would see a man starve and rot rather than why him’ out, unless there was- something in it for him.’ Gunn yielded to the appeal. Here was a man actually in need. His family was in want for the neces- sities of life; he was out of em- ployment; he should be given re- lief. . Dan Gunn’s generous heart responded with $150 in cold cash. To Lefevre, however, he did not appear as a kind-hearted, generous neighbor. No, Dan Gunn to him was an “easy mark.” He had been “conned” easier and for a larger sum that Lefevre expected. And so it epoebod that he went back later with another story of distress. Again he was successful,making the total amount $300. The orders he gave were absolutely worthless,be- cause A. J. Dwyer did not owe Le- fevre a dollar. The account had been settled-in full by Dwyer. It was aclear case of obtaining money under false pretense. It was a con- fidence game for which many a man has and is serving time in penitentaries. It was a confidence swindle for which J. Lefevre should be serving time at Stillwater today. But he isn’t. Why? Because of the generous impluses of D. M. Gunn. He would rather bear the loss and allow himself to be swindled out of three hundred dollars than to take Lefevre away from his family and send him to the penitentiary. The reader may draw his own con- elusions as to the character and moral worth of the two men. This was the only business or other transaction D. M. Gunn ever had with J. Lefevre. The people of Itasca county know how the favor extended Lefevre -has been ap- preciated. His thanks have been expressed in villification and slan- ders that only the vilest ingrate and moral degenerate could be guilty of.” GRAND JURY TO DEAL WITH KNIFE ARTIST Steve Parlich Held on Charge of Stabbing Bovey Miner Fif- teen Times. Steve Parlich, charged with stab- ing Iso Njedovan fifteen times dur- ing a saloon row at Bovey two weeks ago, has been held to the grand jury, having waived examin- ation in justice court Thursday. He was liberated on $400 bail, which was furnished by friends. He is accused of assault with intent to do great bodily harm. Parlich is said to be real handy with -the knife, and to have par- that you tell us where how much they were. more for the shoes we It is worth 50c to you. we ofier a lot ot - that sold for $1.00 and $1.25 at only that sold for $1.50 and $2.00 for each___-_----- Ladies union suits for $3.00 and $4.00 a each <2 Capital $2 5,000,00 President, F, P. Sheldon. Cashier, C. E. Aiken. F. P. She A G. Wed Cc. E. Aiken Have Secured Heaequarters. The basket ball team of the high school.has secured the Ponti build ing as its headquarters, and all games, for the present at least, will be played there. The room is rather small, but it was the best available. MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Notice is hereby given, That de- fault has been made in the con- ditions of that certain Mortgage ex- ecuted by W. J. Sandretzky and Sadie Sandretzky, his wife, Mort- gagors, to J. H. Kohanek, Mortga- gee, dated the ninth day of Au- gust 1909, and recorded in the of- fice of the Register of Deeds of Itasca County, Minnesota, on the eleventh day of August 1909, at nine o'clock A. M., in Book “U” of Mortgages, on Page 278. thereof; that the amount claimed to be due ticipated in many battles before ‘coming here. The man he is accused of stab- ing is an industrious mine worker. He has been discharged from the hospital. ‘ on said mo. e at this date is Five Hundred Ninety-eight and 80- 100 ($598.80) Dollars; that the remises described in and covered said are lots number- (1 and 2), One and ‘ of ‘Block uunbered Five ()rThied Ade Meetd-Review, x Beginning this Friday and continnins through the month ladies wool union suits, vests and pants, "4 69c Ladies and childrens vests, pants and union suits in wool 98c for $2.50 and $2.75 ‘e140 ‘or $2.50 and $2.75 at CWGEE gnssoae 4 enw $1.48 Ladtes union suits that sold $1.98 A man with money in our bank always has a deep feeling of security. This,is only one of many advantages derived from allowing us to take care of your savings. First National Bank GRAND RAPIDS. MINN. Sutplusy OFFICERS DIRECTORS John Beckfeit IF you will bring us a pair of old, worn out shoes (or any other kind you wish) on Friday or Saturday this week we will allow you 50c for them. The “IF” is _ they were bought and about Also that you buy another pair at any price from $2 to $5. Will we ask you any sell you than they are worth? Well, every pair in our stock is marked with the plain selling price and you could readily see whether that had been changed or not. 5 Bring us the old shoes on either of these two days, buy another pair—you will need them anyway. pe pegtiee bars ii | hose of the is we sold for 29c and 35c at, pair... 25c Misaes wool foot hose in sizes from 6 to 10 (some sizes are all gone) the regular 25c 1 value at pair __.......- Ladies heavy worsted hose worth 59c at, pair Men’s wool undershirst that we sold for $2.00. We have on- ly rht small sizes left. 34and 36, and will close them out at, each 5,000.00 Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge Jr. D. M. Gunn. W. C. Gilbert. H. D. Powers. dition to Grand Rapids, Itasca, coun ty, Minnesota, according to the recorded plat. thereof on file and of record in the Office of the Regis- ter of Deeds in and for said coun- ty of Itasca, Minnesota; that by virtue of a power of sale contained in said mortgage and pursuant to the statute in such case made and rovided, the said mortgage will e foreclosed by the sale of said premises at public vendue to the - ighest bidder for cash, by the Sheriff of Itasca County, at the e Village o: ant ids, in County and State, on Wednasday the Peace day of March, 1913, at ‘0 (2) o'clock P, M., to satisfy the amAunt then due on said mortgage, with taxes, if together with the costs of suck sale, and Twenty-five ($25.00) Dol- lars Attorney's fees, stipulateed in said Mortgage. J. H. Kohanek, Mortgagee. ‘Edward Fillman;s « Attorney for Mortgagee. Office, Rooms, 3, 4, Tomfohr Bldg., Chisholm, Minn. — Postoftice Box No. 132, i ———