Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 14, 1913, Page 2

Grand Rapids Herald-Review. VoL, XXIII. No. 45 Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., Wepnrspay May 14, 1913 MISTORR. >: SOOIETY, Two Dollars a Year GREAT NORTHERN TO WILLIAM DEARY OPERATE ITS MINES — DIES IN THE WEST Upon Expiration of Lease With Former Timber Operator in Itasca Steel Trust in 1915, Hill In- County Passes Away at His terests Will Continue. Home in Idaho. The trustees of the Great North-| William Deary died at his home ern mining interests have submitted in Potlatch, Idaho, on Wednesday their annual report of the work of | Of last week. The cause of death the company together with a pros-, Was attributed to hemorrhage of pectus of the cc s intentions the lungs, but for some years Mr. for the near futur The trustees | Deary had been a sufferer from are Louis W. Hill, James N. Hill, | Bright's disease. Walter Hill and Edward = T. | William Deary for years was one Nichols intention to be the steel trust | and it is evidently their | of the best known and most active in position when ;lumberman in Itasca county in the ises expire in 1915 | days when logging was about ’ the to ¢ nue the ipment of ore to | only industry of the county. independent cone s From the tone of the report it been general manager of the Pot- is indicated that the properties latch Lumber company and now held under lease by the Great | Washington, Idaho Western Mining company will be | Railway company. of unusual busine: ble of directing lk d at and this wil plac onee in ne producing if g an enor- ze for the | in one of the largest cerns of the west was not surpr class, Agreements have already been ‘ aa reached with the Great Western | i!g to his old-time friends and as hereby this company releases all | sociates in Northern Minnesota. When the lumber industry was at its height in northern Wiscon- sin and Minnesota, William Deary ights to the mining properties not | actually worked by them at this | time, and this will give the Hill | interests an opportunity to do all | Was a power in the great lumber preliminary work on the properties | World. In the last several decades and be in a position with the open- | 0f the rapid rise of that industry ing of the 1915 season to put them | in the important forest country of in the producing class. western America he was recognized Contracts for the stripping of | #8 @ Pioneer in new fields, and a these mines during 1913 and 1914 successful trailbreaker for the man have already been entered into, it mill-owners now Occupy Ing). 85:80 is said. The report estimates that | horities, the vast territory —con- by an expenditure of about $3,000,- trolled by the lumber corporations 000 a tonnage totaling nearly 150,- | i the western states. : 000,000 tons of ore will be uncover- | Mr. Deary was credited with ed at the Whiteside, Dunwoody and building the railroads that opened Smith mines, and that by an ad-|UP the Potlatch country to the ditional expenditure of about $600,- | Commercial world. He had been 000 there will be available in the ; 2¢tively connected with the Pot- neighborhood of 2,500,000 tons at lateh company for 41 years and the Enterprise mine. It is also ' before then divided his time be- estimated that about 15,000,000 tons | tween his interests in the west and of ore of all grades will be avail- | those in Minnesota and Wisconsin. able in 16-56-23 near Calumet and | About 25 years ago he resided at Marble, while the Wabigon proper- | Chippewa Falls in Wisconsin, wher ties is expected to contribute 5,000,- | he was connected with the Weyer- 000 tons at an expenditure of about | haeuser syndicate. $6,000,000. The Bennet mine near He was born in Canada 60 years Keewatin is also expected to pe- | ago and came to northern Minneso- come one of the Great Northern’s | ta during his early 20s. He worked big producers to be operated by this) and fought his way up from the company. bottom of the ladder to the top jranks of his chosen business, and ing off in the production of Itasca | W@S always credited with being a mines because of the cancellation | ™an of unapproachable character, | of the steel trust leases, will, ap- | indomitable, will, ceaseless industry parently, not find their fears real- | "2d impartial fairness. It is said ized. With the steps taken by the | that the men employed under his Hill interests and the prospecting | direction were much attached to, work being done by the Jones & | him and regarded him as an un-/ La lin people at this end of the | usual character, brim full of kind- rar it would seem that Itasca | Ness and wonderful mentality. county is to become a greater iron | He is survived by a widow’ and ore producer than ever within the | three children: Marie attending next few years, | school in New York; William, stu- eae ‘dent in an eastern college, and Hel- Miners at Nashwauk Out. peurebagme: A small strike was inaugurated Ly “The Dawn of Plenty.” a handful of Bulgarians at the | pon't forget the “Dawn of Plenty” St. Paul mine near iwauk last | jljustrated at the auditorium on Sat week, and they succeeded in get-| urday night. This lecture will be ting enough of their countrymen to | given under the auspices of the join the movement to tie up the | Junior class of the high school and work from Monday morning to / wili be ‘illustrated with the finest Tuesday afternoon. The strikers | moying pictures and slides obtain- were recent importations from St.} apie, Mr. Frank Stockdale who Louis, and the reason for the walk- | gives the “Dawn of Plenty” is a out was that the company refused splendid speaker, he is a mirthful to spot cars to take them to and| orator with a message. A rare from work at the mine, a distance | treat is promised the people of of about half a mile. The entire | Grand Rapids at the high school craw was paid off, and about 50| on Saturday evening, May 17. The of the strikers returned to” work. | admission charge will be 25 and 15 According to the Nashwauk Her-! cents. No reserved seats. ald, the labor situation in that sec- eae tion is satisfactory, and no lack | ool Electrical Exhibit. of men is reported by the mining} On Saturday, the 24th, the high companies, o-7 ww 2? | school pupils will hold their annual electrical exhibition at the auditor- Teachers For District No. 2 ium. As this department is one of the most interesting and instruc- At a meeting of the school board | * 3 of District No 2 held at Coleraine | tive in the high school course, the on Friday, Prof. Van Dyke was | ¢Xhibition should+prove of _ more reappointed as superintendent for | ‘han usual interest. The ° wireless the ensuing year. | apparatus will be seen in working \ Ima J. August will again Order; jase wel eonecsen at ee have charge of the music and danc- | ee puusancoe nana ing departments, Miss Vesta F. | ~ ‘ Williams, penmanship and commer-!} ial, and Arthur G, Bovay, agricul- | 1 Those who expected to see a fall- 5. H. Cook Disappears - | S$. H. Cook, manager of the White | Cedar Lumber company’ at Deer at | River, has been missing for about teu days and it is feared that he the Oleott high school following instructors For Marble, the were chosen: Krueger. principal, science and | lake. mathematics; Agnes C. Moffatt,| Mr. Rossbrook, postmaster at English; George H. Wichmann, | Max, found a coat on the shore of manual training; Rhoda McCoy, do-|the lake and brought it to Deer mestic science; Hattie M. Hedin, River, the garment being identified sixth and seventh grades; Ida M.!as belonging to Mr. Cook. A Hegg, fourth and fifth; Katherine ! searching party headed by C. M. Doran, second and third; Gertrude | King left for Squaw lake to make M. Bawden, first and second; Bva|a search for the missing man, but M. Potter, kindergarten. could discover no trace of him. i has met death by drowning in Squaw, Since going west Mr. Deary had! tions the Duluth Herald s He was a man|velopment of Minnesota. activity, capa-| can count on the united support of ge affairs, and/this section of the state, and un- that he became the leading spirit} doubtedly the same may be said lumber con- | for the whole of Northern Minne- KOLL IS CANDIDATE FOR COMMISSIONER The Cass Lake Booster Should be Made Immigration Head by State Board. | The Heralh-Review is pleased to |feel that M,N, Koll of Cass Lake |commissioner. His friends have }brought him forward as a can- didate and = back of his can- didacy is an element of strength in the business circles of all north- ern Minnesota that should not be silghtly treated by the state board ; of immigration. Speaking of Mr. Koll’s qualifica- “The news has been received with the ; marked enthusiasm on the part of and Montana! Duluth men interested inthe de- Mr. Koll sota. . Koll is first of all a live | wire. He has unbounded faith in has the same He is Northern Minnesota. He spirit that will instill the faith in prospective settlers. a capable business man, an ener- getic booster and a man who will put the immigration work of the state on a firmer foundation than any on which it has rested to date. “Mr. Koll has resigned from the executive committee of the North- ern Minnesota Development asso- ciation in order to be free to push his application for the place va- eated by Mr. Maxiield. The an- nouncement of his candidacy will undoubtedly bring him support from all parts of the state, and by the time Governor Eberhart return from his western trip it is expect- ed that Koll sentiment will have reached a volume that will make his favorable consideration by the immigration board certain. “Although Mr. Koll_is a Republi- ean, his appointment would not be taken as a political one, but would put the immigration bureau on a firm foundation of efficiency. He has been in the land business in Cass Lake for years. He has been instrumental in putting more set- tlers on land in that county than perhaps any other man in any other county in the state. He is extremely practical and extremely earnest, and his friends hope he will land the place, not only for the recognition to him but for the efficiency of the immigration department.” Have the Right Idea Mesabe Ore:—Itasca county is surely going after good roads in earnest. The county commissioners of that county have decided to ex- pend four hundred thousand dol- lars for trunk highways under the ‘ provisions of the Elwell law, where- by the state stands a share of the expense. ‘These trunk highways, together with the feeders that the county will huild, will give Itasca county a road system that should be the best in any county in the state. This will mean the earliest de- velopment of the agricultural pos- sibilities of the county, as the pros pective settler goes where he can get good land and good roads at the same time. = If the Saint Louis cOunity commis- sioners would take a little more in- terest along similar lines, it would not take long until Saint Louis coun- ty would come into its own—that to which its thousands of rich acres entitle it. Memorial Day Observances. For the Memorial Day arrange- ments, one representative from each organization in town has been | added to the committee on parade. | At a meeting in the public library on Tuesday, May 13, presided over by Miss Margaret Aiton, members were present from the following so cieties: Public schools, I. O. 0. F., Woman’s club, Royal Neighbors, Re beceas, Frie Department, Grand Army Circle, and M. B. A. Mayor Riddell, of the village council, was also present. It is now desired tha other organizations of the town evidence their patriotism by send- ing word by postal card or tele- phone as to willingness to appoint a delegation for Memorial day. W. L. MADDY, Secretary. “The Dawn of Plenty,” at the High School Saturday night. a eat em oo ears FRO d A i | SENIORS TO PRESENT NEW FARCE COMEDY Commencement Class Will’be Seen in “The Private Secretary” During Last Week. The senior class of the school will present “The high Private |may be appointed state immigratiow Secretary,” a faree comedy, during commencement week. The cast is as follows: Mr. Marsland, John Benton; Harry termole, Frank Le Mere; Spaulding, Morris Bowman; Mr. Sydney Gibson, Fred Rosholt; John Richard Fischer; Edith Marsland (dughter to Mr. MaYsland), Claris- | landlady), Margaret O’Connell; Miss Ashford, Muriel Fairbanks. hersals are being held under the | direction of Fred Carson of the athletic department, and Miss Har- riet Kummerer, a talented member of the faculty. | The senior class numbers 38, the largest in the history of the school, as follows: Alice Avery, Catherine Beckfelt, John Benton, Ethel Bick- ley, Ray Boorman, Morris Bowman, Adele Brackin, Elmer Carpenter, Clarissa Clay, Mary Dinwiddie, Maud Dinwiddie, Frances Finni- gan, Muriel Fairbanks, Richard Fischer, Helen Fraser, Robert Gilbert, Bertha Gillaland, Emma Hursch, Bessie Kelley, Frank Le Mere, Grace McDonald, Ella Mills, Phyllis Mooers, Esther Morse, Winnie Meyers, Margaret O’Connell, Robert Patterson, Santina Ponti, Warren Poppe, Mildred Prescott, David Rima, Carrie Rosholt, Mary Shaughnessey, Howard Sher- man, Eva Stade, Clare Wilcox, Ber- nice Williams. Change of Superintendent. | It is said A. Y. Peterson, assist- ant general superintendent of hte Oliver Mining company for the Chisholm district has been placed ! in full charge at Coleraine with the ! title of general superintendent suc- ; ceeding M. H. Godfrey, who has} been general superintendent since | John €, Greenway left the Oliver. : Nothing can be learned of Mr. ; Godfrey’s plans although there has | been a rumor for several months | that he is about to be promoted to | a still more important position with the Oliver company. | Deer River Citizen Dies } Frank Moore, for five years agent of the Minneapolis Brewing com- pany at Deer River, died last Wed- nesday at the Bemidji hospital of fully degeneration of the heart. He leaves a wife and four young child- } ren to mourn his loss. | He was born} at Glidden, Wis., where his ~ re- | | mains were shipped for interment. At the Gem The Gem management has __ se- cured some of the best films for the next two weeks that have been presented to our people foralong time. Tonight and Thursday the two-reé] Kalem production, “The | Wives of Jamestown,” will be the | feature. This is a historical pro- | duction and the story takes place partly in England and partly in America. Vb be temtcpem On Saturday and Sunday, the 17th and 18th, the ninth number of the “Mary” series, entitled “A Way to the Underworld,” oné of the most interesting films of the entire ser- ies, will head the bill. By special ar- {rangement the management has also’ secured the beautiful drama, “Alixe, ' or “The Test of Friendship,” for | this evening. Your old favorites, Helen Gardner and Earl Williams | are the leads in this production, and this should prove its value. | age abandonment The bill for the evening will con- | clude with’ a laughable comedy, | “A Trap to Catch a Burglar.” ! Monday and Tuesday the ever- popular Pathe Weekly will be shown this being film No, 13. On Wednes-, day and Thursday, the Kalem two- reel historical special, ‘““The Retreat From Moscow,” will be the head- liner. In this picture actual Rus- sian soldiers are used. On Friday, a topical picture, showing scenes in San Francisco, will be a feature, to be followed by the strong Edi- son drama, “The Weapon.” Satur- day and Sunday of next week, the Edison production, “The Doctor's Photograph,” will head the bill, fol- lowed by a rolicking Western Vita- graph play, “Polly at the Ranch.” Marsland, Robert Gilbert; Mr. Cat- | tempt to get the farmers hereabouts termole, David Rima; Douglas Cat- | interested in the Early Triumph Robert | potato. a servant, and Knox, a writ-server, | Will take two bushels when the cro sa Clay; Eva Webster (her friend) | siderable interest is Helen Fraser; Mrs. Stead (Douglas’! Proposition a | growers will probably be called for Re-| the purpose of taking the j evidence of a slow-down. There ha WHOLESALERS WANT | ITASCA’S POTATOES Triumph Seed to Farmers on | Share Basis. Supt. A. J. MeGuire of the North Central Experiment farm has re- | ceived a communication from D, E. ; Ryan & Co., of Minneapolis, one of the largest potato buying houses {in the Northwest, asking him to at- The concern offers to fur- nish seed to farmers on a basis of is harvested for every bushel of xed they furnish now. If any con shown in the meeting of potato matter up systematically. for seed at the farm have been disposed of, the demand having been far greater than was auticipat ed. This is a hopeful sign as it shows that farmers are aiming at uniformity in the product. £ BUSINESS OUTLOOK; 2 (ROP CONDITIONS Reported by First State Bank, Grand Rapids. The event in the business world has been the new tariff bill. Drawn with the purpose to revise sched- ules downward in the interest of the consumer, the departure in our economic policy naturally appears drastic to many industrial inter- ests. Speaking broadly, the bill has has been quite favorably received. Criticism has not been lacking of in schedules and there are ing incensistencies that can- not. be justisied by any scientific principles but these are expected to be corrected before the bill be- comes a law. The paramount question is its ef-/| fect on business. Those industries most intimately connected with high! protective duties—especially the xtiles—are showing the positive been a falling off in orders, which is to be expected, but the reduction of stocks irom manufacturer to re- tailer is making for a sound trade situation with the final re-adjust- ment to new conditions. ! While there has been some slow- | down in general business, it is be- lieved to be as much reflective of the “between-seasqu” period as of| tariff changes. One of the most noticeable and encouraging results of the impending changes is the ten! dency to aecept the “competitive tariff,” as Mr. Underwood calls the; bill, as démanded by the people and to direct their efforts to meet the! new conditions by concentration or greater efficiency. There are busi- ness men of this country who be- lieve, in the end, this will be bene- | ficial and stimulating and will re-| sult in ourmanufacturers increasing} their foreign trade tremendously. The-most optimistic are disposed to see a wonderful expansion in our export commerce of finished pro-} ducts following the readjustment. At this writing the crop outlook! in the United States could hardly be better for winter wheat and for the favorable start of the spring grains. A short-lived crop scare dua to dry soil conditions in the west- ern part of Kansas and parts of ! | | | Minneapolis Concern Offers Early | AUTO SENSATION GETS PUBLICITY C. H. Dickinson’s Automobile Ride From Hibbing to Grand Rap- ids is Famous. If the press of the United States would take some of the facts per taining to the marvelous wealth ef Itasca county’s agricultural lands as published from week to week im the Herald-Review, and give thea ithe free publicity that has beem accorded an automobile incident ix which Mr. C. H. Dickinson of Grand ; Rapids carried one of the leading ove bushel for two. That is, they | parts, the rush of settlers to thie ; county would surpass anything ef the kind ever experienced by any section of the country at any peri< od of its history. But the press is not inclined to do that. A headon collision of two aute- mobiles in which no particular damage resulted; no one was hurt All the Carmen potatoes reserved | seriously; the occupants were not sudednly and unceremoniously trang ferred from one machine to the other, and from which no romance grew, was erroneously reported te the cily press and the story hag made the rounds from Maine te Mexico and from Canada to the Gulf. Howard Doran, son of Mrs. Katherine Doran of Grand Ba- pids, writes from Douglas, Arize- na, enquiring about the calamity and sends a copy of the Douglas Daily Despatch in which it is seri- ously recorded that the cars of Mr. Dickinson and Mr. and Mrs. Dear of Hibbing collided, “the occupants of both cars bouncing high in the air, turned over and landed in each: other’s car.’ Howard says he was glad to see a piece of news carry- ing a Grand Rapids date line, evem if it might have resulted fatally. We will write Howard a nice letter and suggest that he subseribe far the Herald-Review from which he will get all the Grand Rapids news all the time and get it right. GAME WARDEN WOOD GRILLED BY EDITOR Bear River Journal Man Pays His Respects to Over-Ambitious Official. Editor Peterson of the Bear Riv- er Journal does not take kindly to the methods employed by Deputy Game Warden George Wood of Hib- bing. In the latest issue of his paper the editor proceeds to take a few falls out of the warden, as follows: “Game Warden Wood had a sus- picion this week that the settlers ound Sturgeon lake might have inveigled a few unwary suckers in- to grabbing some new-fangled fisk bait on the last day of April, and wiih an assistant he descended om Green Rock Thursday and carteé Floyd Stickney off in an aute te some Range justice where he was assessed a $16 fine with $14 for his auto ride. “The victim claims he was helé up—we are using this word advis— edly—by Wood, who, he claims, produced no legal documents at any jstage of the game, on the charge of spearing fish, which, under the law, is permissible during daylight. | But Wood, fearing his victim might escape, and he—Wood—would have to cough up for the price of the joy ride, persuaded young Stickney to admit that he had been fishing Nebraska was dissipated by timely rains. It is conceded that some im- pairment resulted, but there is every indication that the loss was less than normal for April, and that the May government report re- port will show a high condition for winter wheat and the smallest acre- with a hook and line, promising that he would get off with a light- er fine. “Several homesteaders in that community had been spearing fish in the afternoon of April 31, seme of whom Wood undertook to bluff, but it did not work, and he fin- yet recorded, | ally picked up the most innocent leaving an area for harvesting}one of the bunch to pay for his which will suggest not>anly a lib- eral production but one much better distributed than last year. The reduction of the duty on sugar with its eventual elimination and free wool has occasioned more auto trip. “It is our personal experience that if Wood were to fish in Sturgeon lake with a hook and line any 24- hour period before May 45th, he wouldn’t get enough fish to give or less pessimism among producers especially in the South and West. The shadow is expected to be more apprehensive than the substance, but time alone will show how changes in these particular commo- dities will affect the producer Weather conditions the last week agricultural development ued prosperiéy and expansion. ‘pei iraiuimt AS} rft Fr PpAhRomeiimpmrfr odor to a frying pan. “Wood may occasionally have a meritorious case, but toe many of his official acts are decidedly “raw™ to say the least. “If Wood and his deputies were given a job propogating fish ‘end other game instead of persecuting have been particularly favorable fo§ poverty stricken settlers they would in the|be of some benefit to society. The South, and that section of the/game warden system is.a curse not country is looking ahead to contin-|only to the community but to the state.”