Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 9, 1913, Page 1

Vor, XXIII. No. 41 Wi viesersiwar SUreEy 6T PAUL —— ‘ Grand Uapids Herald-Review. Granp Rapids, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1913 HEIDEMANS LAID WN SINGLE: GRAVE Slayer and Wife He Killed Sleep Side by Side in Itasca Cemetery. FUNERAL 1S LARGELY ATTENDED Odd Fellows Conduct Obsequies and Furnish Pall Bearers—Well- To-Do Uncle Takes Or- phaned Boy. The bodies of Reinholt W. Heide- man and his wife, Marie, were in- | terre rave in the Itasca cemetery Sunday afternoon. man killed ted suicide Tuesday of last week. The funeral was in charge of the of Odd Fellows, — of was a local lodge which Heideman and the pall bearers were furnish- ed by the same organization. The bodies were borne to the grave in two hear Several carriages, in which rode many of the promi- nent people of the village, accom- panied the procession to the ceme- tery. Henry and Albert Heideman, brothers and H. D. Steinbach, a brother-in-law of Heideman’s, all of Detroit, attended. Universal respect in which Mrs. Heideman was held by the people of Grand Rapids was attested by the large attendance of neighbors at the funeral which was held from the Kremer undertaking rooms. Several floral tributes were laid upon her casket, one from the children of the fifth grade of the Central school, where Raymond, the 10 year old son of the Heide- mans, has been a pupil. The training and education of the orphaned boy have been well provid- ed for. He has been taken to the home of his uncle, Mr. Steinbach, at Detroit, and will probably Ite adopted into the far Mr. Stein- bach is a well-to-do building con- tractor, and has no children, Both he and his wife several times made aymond to their home after tions between his parents became strained, but Mrs. Heideman refused to part with him although she had frequenly ex- pressed the wish that her boy should be cared for by the Stein- bachs in case of hér death, A local. trustee of the estate left by the Heidemans will be appoint- ed. That Heideman was not in his right mind when he committed the awful deed, is generally conceded by those who knew him well. The trouble between himself and wife that was about to culminate in an aetion for divorce, instituted by Mrs. Heideman, coupled with the fact that he had been out of em- ployment for some time, and was out of funds, preyed upon his mind until he became mentally deranged. $6,500 FROM STATE ses. overtures to take FOR COUNTY ROADS. Itasca Fares Well in the Appor- tionment— St. Louis Gets $10,- 000; Koochiching $5,500. Itasea county has been awarded $6,500 as its share of the state road and bridge fund of $350,000 by the state highway commission. St. Lous gets $10,000 and Koochiching Heidc« his wife and“ commit- | member, | | 000; Freeborn, $4,000; Goodhue, $5,- | 000; Grant, 000; Hennipen, § | 000; Houston, $5,000; Hubbard, Isanti, $3,000; Itasea, ackson, § ); Kanabee, + Kandilohi, 800; Kittson, $4 Koochiching. .500; Lake, Le Sueur, $3.500; Lincoln, Lyon, $3,000; McLeod, 500; Mah- nomen, 500; Marshall, £4,500; Mar tin, $4,000; Meeker, $4,000; Mille Laes, $4,500; Morrison, $4,000; | ,000; Mur $3,000;. Noci $3,000; Nobles, $3,000; Norman, 43. 400; Olmstead, ; Otter $4,000; Pennington, 40) $6,500; | 000; Pine, $4, 000; Pipestone, $3,000; Polk, $5,000; Pope, $3,000; Ramsey, $10,000; Red | Lak 500; Redwood, § | Ville, $5,000; Rice, $4, 000; Roseau 500; § | 000; Scott, $4,000; Sherburne, | 000; Sibley 4,000; Stearns, $4,000; Stevens, $3,00 ; Todd, $3,400; Traverse bas. 000; Wadena, | 000; Was ; $4,000; Washington, 000; Watonwan, $3,000; Wilkin, $2,600; Winona, $8,000; Wright, $3,- 500; Yellow Medicine, $4,500. 5,064 GIRLS NEEDED Male Population Nearly Twice as Large as Female—Should Be | Spinsters’ Paradise, Itasca county needs 5,064 women and girls. It is that many shy. Its male population is almost twice as large as the female. The figures are 11,016 to 6 It should be a good place to col- onize spinisters with a view to marrying them off. It may be ex- pected that when the figures are ! heralded to the world there will be arush, ~ The stati#es are from the report of the state census bureau’ and to be taken as official and correct. The same report gives out other interesting information regarding this county. It contains 1,020 more foreigners than, native Americans, and numbers among its people 65 Indians and six negroes. The fore- | igners total 4,720 and the natives 3.700. Of the total population of 17,- | 208 in 1910, there are 857 who cannot ‘read or write, 798 of whom are | foreigner born. There are 4,070 | children of school age and 3382 of {them are in school. The students {18 to 20 years of age total 1,026. The percentage of the children of | foreigners and natives attending is | pr cally the same, the foreigners | having a slight lead. | There are 3,484 families, all with | homes except 104. It is not stated | where these sleep, but presumably {they live in hotels and boarding houses. The foreign born population, by | nationalities, is made up as_ fol- | lows: Austria 1,204, Belgium 34, Canadi- jan French 294, other Canadians 572, | Denmark 40, England 107, France | 9, Germany 209, Greece 104, Holland 4, Hungary 106, Ireland 111, Italy 530, Norway 609, Roumania 32, Rus- sia’ 73, Scotland 27, Sweden 1,407, Switzerland 13, other foreign na- tions 337. There is a mass of interesting statistics in the bulletin, most not- able, from a local viewpoint, being the vast preponderance of men) over women in the population of all the northern counties. Through With Criminals. The criminal calendar in the district court was finished Friday | with the exception of a number of saloon cases. The last offenders to be dealt with were Everett Marchland, who stole a trunk full of clothing from a Deer River home, and pleaded guilty. He was given an indeter- minate term in the St. Cloud re- | formatory. i tail, IN ITASCA COUNTY: FARMING EXPERTS BIDEN TO FEAST ‘Representatives of State School | Will be Principal Guests at Booster Club’s Banquet. TILLERS OF SOILWILL HEAR GOSPEL tary District Expected—Uni- versity Train to Make | Ten-Day Tour | Experts from the agricultural de- | partment of the state university will be prominent guests at the next | meeting and banquet of the Boost- srs’ club, which will be held. at . Joseph’s hall April This will be the first gathering of the organization in more than two months, and the development of Itasca county lands, particularly as jit is involved with the scientific {now in this territory, will be its dominant note, Another important feature is the possible presence of a representa- tive of the Range electric railroad system. _ For some time a _ move | Large Representation From Tribu- | ‘WOULD GIVE EPIC ~ TALE 10 foTORY | James McAlpine, Pioneer, Says Story of First Comers Here Should be Preserved. ‘ -ENPIRE MAKERS PICTURESQUE CREW Man Who Saw the Birth of Grand Rapids Talks Interestingly of Early Comp: ers on the River. A suggestion made by Jas McAl- | pine that action be taken to pre- serve to future generations the story of the pioneers of the upper Mississippi region, will receive a hearty second from every one who ; appreciates the history making work of the band of empire build- ers who invaded local wilds nearly sixty years ago. “The history of this country }propagation of crops by the farmei$} must soon be written, or it can- not be written right,” said Mr. Me- | Alpine, who drove logs down the Father of Waters when it traversec a practically uninhabited wilder- ness between its source and the villages around St. Anthony falls. has been under way to have one Of | Mr, McAlpine is here en a visit to the officials come here and indicate} his brothers, Michael and Anthony, to the club what are the intentions | affer an absence of more than 35 of those behind the road in regard | years. He is now a resident of On- to construction into Grand Rapids | tarjo, residing 80 miles from Ot- by way of the Canisteo villages. tawa. Rumor has been building the ex-| since coming here three weeks tension for seyeral months, but ago he has busied himself in nothing definite has been learned | search for his old compeers of the of what the company proposes tO} peeyy and canthook. He has been do. H i able to find only three—Robert The agricultural experts will be |McCabe of Cohasset, Chris Burns Two Dollars a Year - in the woods two years later, my) ' rn first drive being on the Rum! at river, for Fred Clark. There I met | Baan the band of original old timers. ‘There were Low Sevey, Chris Burns Bob McCabe, Hugh Cox, James and} John Quinn, Pat McAvoy, James! and Jack Hefferan, Con Deneen— and dozens more whose names by the lapse of more than half a century. Most of them are dead, I guess. They were men who did things. W. D. Washburn was one of the operators on the Mississippi. We used to take his logs below St. Cloud and deliver them to the boom company. He started his mills later. years, always stopping at the same boarding house. It stands yet, and the widow of the landlord is still living in it. and the group of pioneer women who came later, about whom some interesting incident does not cen-|* ter. Something should be done to flour | “T drove into Minneapolis for six] “There is not one of those men, | BEAR ROAD COST have been blotted from my meory | That is Position of Taxpayers on Highway to Bridge West of Grand Rapids. ‘BiG CROWD EXPEGTED AT MEETING Will Voice Demand Next Monday Evening.-- Shellman’s Inter- ference Likely to Meet Strong Disapproval. The meeting of electors of the colleet the material and perpetuate | Town of Grand Rapids at Village the pioneer’s story.” WILL SOON START PLANTING SEED FISH Game Warden Harry Expects to Put Young Trout in Local Streams by Mid-April. Game Warden Jess Harry has been in the Winnibigoshish lake country during the week, in the vi- cinity of Third River, making ob- servation of the lakes and streams preparatory to the — spring fish planting. it is expected that the first ship- ment of trout fry will arrive about April 415, and they will at once be placed in the brooks selected. The young trout flourish in water nearly ice cold, and so may be set out as soon as the streams are free of ice. Mr. Harry has not been informed as to the number of trout fry to hall next Monday night for the pur pose of setting forth their position on the construction of a highway to the bridge being finished just ‘west of Grand Rapids, promises to draw a large attendance. The objection offered by Gom- | missioner Shellman to Itasca coun- | ty assuming the cost of road con- struction in this instance is un- reasonable and unfair to the dis ‘trict. At the annual meeting the board divided the road and bridge fund equally between the five com- missioner districts. By natural inference, custom, courtesy and good business practice, the’ com- missioner front each district should be granted the right by his col- leagues to direct expenditures ia his district. If any member of the board recommends expenditure om roads that are not desirable or necessary, the people of that dis- trict will“not be slow to express disapproval in a public manner that will bring about the desired results. So it is in this instance. rin Grand Rapids-on the date of the banquet, their schedule calling for a stop here on the, ten day tour of their train through Itasca and nearby counties. They will stop at practically every village, and hold meetings, explaining to — the farmers the most approved meth- ods in crop raising, soil conserva- tion, animal husbandry, and minor farm activities. | Preparations have already been |made to insure them a large audi- jence at every stopping place. The schools within ten miles of each village where a meeting will be held will be closed to give pupils jand teachers an opportunity to be |present, and notices have been sent {to the Head of every family telling of the importance of the. proposed gathering and urging him to at- | tend. The Grand Rapids club will make }a special effort to have a_ large representation from the surround- ‘ing agricultural population at the banquet, c- | The agricultural train will be better equipped with literature and |by the university. New Keewatin Officers. Phil Stone, brother of R. A. Stone, of Grand Rapids, has been named village counsel for Keewatin, suc- ceeding J. ¢. Lewis of Nashwauk. Mr. Stone has been here for some time, and récently opened offices in the mining village. Other appointments by village board are: | John Webb \chief of police; Paddy Carmody, night police officer, suc- ceeding John Culleen; Charles Vad- nais, street femisioner Dr. C. F. Carstens, John Milan and F. V. of health; Stephen MeMillen and Axel Johnson members of the fire department. Among imprdvements decided up- speakers than any ever sent out! of Cass Lake and Al Mason of Bena. Mr. McAlpine visited each at his home. /Their “ conversations were largely of pioneer times, men and incidents. “Enough matter of real interes! to the present generation as well as old time dwellers here, was re counted,” said Mr, McAlpine, “t+ form a story of thrilling interest, | dealing with picturesque men wh? j move through a history making ‘epoch in this country. Not one | but had something to say that the | future historian would find of us» jin giving color to the story of th* founding of a region that is fast be coming the wealthiest and most productive in the state. The great population that is soon to fill this country should know something of its earliest development, the man- ner of its beginning, the circum- stances surrounding it, and the men |and women who nursed infant set- |tlements to life. The invasion of the Kentucky wilds by Boone is on of the prominent facts of the na- tion’s history. Every region of this young country has its Boones, | whose story is at least of vast lo- cal interest. “How many of the younger gen- eration in Grand Rapids-or the older for that matter—know what the town looked like in its ear- liest infancy? I saw the infant. It was a small, albeit lusty young- ster, and noisy. When Romulus and Remus reared the first trench at Rome, the young town had made a smal] beginning. But when two young woodsmen set up a tent at Grand Rapids they had a more unsubstantial one. That was the start of the town. The can- ; vas was reared in the spring of Kakkinen, members of the board | 1867 near the present site of the | tal, whose leg was painfully burned | bridge over the Mississippi. They ran a saloon, and the woodsmen, | gathered to the place from miles around. There were rough, often be assigned to Itasea~countythis|J! the people here desire some of — the money apportioned by the to this-district to be expended om ithe road in question it is not for / Commissioner Shellman or any oth- ing lake and rainbow trout, which | outsider to assume that his judg- will be put into the lakes and larg-|™ent in their behalf is of a su- er streams. These thrive in lo- | Peter quality. cal waters, and it is expected that | The people of this district electeé the upper Mississippi will in time’ James Passard because they be- become a first class rainbow trout lieved in him—believed in his in- ‘ These fish grow to a great tesrity and ability to represent size, and as soon as they begin to | their interests. When his conduct be too large for the creeks, natur- ®8 @ member of the board dees not ally seek deeper waters. In this | meet with general approval it is wiy it is expected they will event-| altogether likely they will take ally stock the Mississippi. | steps to so advise him. The planting of pike and thetak-! It is for this specific purpose’that ing of pike spawn will occur late the meeting of district taxpayers in the season. The pike does not'is called for next Monday evening, spawn until the water is compara-| When the subject will be thoroughly tively warm. It takes the eggs discussed, and an expression of the year. He expects to receive no- lice in a day. or two. ‘The fish *intended~for Itasca. re of several game varieties, includ- about forty days to hatch out; so! people recorded. the fry will not be available until} Ten thousand dollars is being ex-° the first of June. * pended on a bridge across the Mis- SERIE! sissippi river. The approaches te jthis bridge are in two townships. DAMAGE SUIT CASE {It is plainly the duty of the county to bear the expense of construct- LOST BY HOSPITAL ing all roads that are legally goun- | ty roads, ‘ ¢ 1 eo < it is urged that the Monday n: Judge Dibbell Says Charitable In- meeting be well attended by tax— stitution is Liable, Like All | payers from all sections of district Others, Before the Law. Bo. Rout; p That a charitable institution, like! A special meeting of the taxpay— ers of Grand Rapids township wilt $5,500. The average is $4,070. The} Thomas Smith who entered the northern counties, where the popu- | room where T. J. Storey of Duluth lation is small, were given more | was sleeping in a Deer River hotel, than their proportion, because of | and robbed him of $24, was convict on for the year by the council is} violent scenes, when the uncouth |the placing of| cement walks the | forest tamers came in. But the {entire length o First Street. tent gave people the habit of com- ing to the Rapids. Soon a substan- | any other business concern, is liab’@ { for damages sustained by a person law in a ruling made by Judge Di- bell in the district court at Du- luth last Wednesday. The decision was rendered in the appeal case of the Sisters of ‘Benedict against a judgment ob- tained by Cornelius White, a pa- tient at the Grand Rapids hospi- by a hot water bag in March, 1911, | while he was undergoing an opera- , tion. He sued for $5000 and was be held at the same time and place in its care, was declared to be the |t0 vote on the proposition of au- thorizing the town supervisors te dispose of certain road machinery now owned by the town. “FORCED TO GARVE ENEMY; GOES FREE Steve Parlica, accused of stabbing Izo Negora a score of times dur- ing a fight in a Bovey saloon im j awarded $293 by a jury. In his opinion denying a new trial and affirming the verdict of the jury, the court says: “The plaintiff was a clean, hon- the great amount of state land in | this territory. -The apportionment for the state by counties follows: Aitkin, $3,500; Anoka, $3,500; Becker, 3,500; Beltrami, $5,500; Benton, $2,700; Big Stone, $3,000; Blue Earth, $7,000; Brown, $3,400; Carlton, $5,000; Carver, $3,800; Cass, $4,500; Chippewa, $3,400; Chisago, $3,400; Clay, $3,000; Clearwater, $3,- ed and given a sixty day sentence. | He is in the county jail. | Most of the saloon cases have also been tried. Judge Stanton is i setting a pace this term in clearing |up the calendar. The court has been working day and night practi- cally since the term began. Village Board Meeting. | At the special meeting of the Murderer Commits Suicide The body of John Fontana, who murdered his wife at Chisholm Tuesday of last week, was found in the basement of his home Thurs- day by the police. It was thought he had escaped. The basement dontained four feet of water and mid. It is believed his victim, he weit down cellar and 000; Cook, $5,000; Cottonwood, $3,- | village board April 4, the only busi | drowned himself. |The body lodged 500; Crow Wing, $4,000; Dakota, ness transacted was the granting in the mud, and although a search $4,000; Dodge, $3,500; Douglas, $4,-| of two liquor licenses to saloon|Wa@s made the day of the murder 000; Faribault, $2,600; Fillmore, $5,- keepers already established. ‘it was not located. path it se wwe ee ae that after Fonana had brained | he cannot give his time to a fur-|had been poverty stricken tial building was put up, another} est working man of the better class, followed, the place became a rec-;not a crook Or a pauper; nor was ognized trading post. The town, he asking charity. He was glad to was on the map.” | avail himself of the facilities fur- Mr. McAlpine thinks there are nished and pay for them. The de- January, put up a perfect defense when he was brought to trial, and was acquitted of the charge Friday on’ motion of County Attorney Mc- Ouat. Parlica called as witnesses sev— eral men who were in the saloon at the time, to sustain his claim that he acted in self defense. All testified that Negora attack many more of the original pioneers! fendant was glad to receive him in this region than he has beenjand care for him and to get pay, unable to find. He will leave for, and, of course, would have re- home in a few days, however, as | ceived him and cared for him if he and ther search for them. friendless. “They were a lot that were| “My judgment is that in a case worth while,” he remarked remin- like this, public policy is subserved iscently. “I came here in 1866, and | by holding to usual tests and terms ‘went to work on the stream and ' of the law.” ed him, knocked him down and ab 2 and had a strangle hold on s at the time the accused — slashing with a pen knife. It was also shown that N had been hanging around sp a living from friends, and had not worked more the two years he has vey.