Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 4, 1914, Page 1

v Grand Rapids Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4. 1914 ‘ Vor. XXIV. No. 30 LOSI RG TE PIE ENE RSI communicated from the company’s right-of-way. Powell & Simpson, at torneys for the company, obtained a change of venue to Hubbard county and the case was ordered transferred there. The trial lasted three weeks and resulted in a verdict of $13,400 for McCallum. VILLAGE TO VOTE ON BOND IooUe Special Election Called for Feb- ruary 21 to Decide Upon Re- funding Proposition. neighborhood of $1200, and now Hub- |bard county’s claim is not disputed in the case. The justice of Hubbard | county's claim is not disputed and there is no doubt but that the Itas- |ca authorities would gladly meet the | obligation which is morally theirs, but they can find no warrant in law ‘for so doing and would lay them- selves liable should they attempt to do so. Provision is made whereby a crim- }inal case thus transfered is charge- ‘able against the county from which MAY BORROW MONEY FROM STATE Village Now Paying Seven Per Cent lering a civil action. It is likely that While New Issue Can be Float- | the incident will be called to the ed at Not to Exceed Four |attention of the next legislature and | a law secured covering the point. and a Half. ‘SIX LIVES LOST IN KELLIHER HOTEL FIRE There will be a special election on | Saturday, Feb. 21, for the purpose uf | voting on the proposition to | onds of the village in the sum of $19,00.00, the money to be used in| taking up that amount in water | works bonds outstanding. The is-j} sue to be retired bears date of May| row Escape. 7, 1904, and was originally for $25,000, A. A. Campbell, residing with his erence having been paid in the| family at Grand Rapids, had a nar-| mean time. These bonds are all in| row escape from death in a fire that} the hands of eastern parties and have totally destroyed the Keliher hotel been drawing seven per cent inter-/ building at Keliher last night. Mr. est. It is now proposed to secure|Campbell, who arrived here today, the amount required from the state|/says that at the time he left the at a rate of four and one half per/town this morning it had been ascer- | cent, village officials saying that/tained that six persons were lost in they have assurances that there will| the fire, with four more known to| be no difficulty in getting the sum! be in the building at the time the} from this source.. \ The bonds will run for twenty yeaig, and will be payable as follows: Five thousand dollars in 1919; $5,000, in} 1924; $5000 in 1929, and $4,000 in} 1933. The issuing of bonds in the village is rather an unpopular undertaking at any time, but this particular in- stance should prove an exception. The taking up of the old issue will mean interest reduction of two and one-half per cent and this interest will re- main in the state. No-opposition to the transaction is heard and it ~is thought that the election will show the people to ba strongly in favor of the move. | THE COUNTY BONDS FINALLY ACCEPTED Attorneys for Buyers Report That all Proceedings Pertaining to Issue are Correct. i County Auditor M. A. Spang has! been officially aivised that the issue of three hundred thousand dollars of A. A. Campbell of Grand Rapids, Among Those Who Have Nar- blaze was discovered not accounted. for. Mr. Campbell says that when he dis- covered the fire about 1 o'clock it was no longer possible to get out by the way of the stairways. He and two other commercial travelres, Fred LaRue, running out of Duluth for the Standard Oil company and Ben Hirshman, a liquor salesman from| St. Paul, escaped by jumping from a window, Mr. Campbell and Mr. La- Rue let themselves down as far as ping and escaped unhurt, but Mr.! Hirshman- jumped entirely clear of the building and received injuries thai necessitated his being taken to the hospital at Bemidji. Two other men and two women were also taken to the hospital with more or less se- vere injuries Those escaping lost practically all | their belongings, there being no time | in which to save anything. The elec- | tric lights were turned off at 12/ o'clock so that the darkness added | to the confusion. There is no fire} apparatus at the place. ITASGA’S FINANCES The costs in the case were in the} \it was taken but there is nothing cov-| i issue | | | the first part of the week and testi- | give her $500.000 if she would be- om brought suit against an elderly and i possible by their. arms before rd pee agers crak eM OW TESTIMONY IN BIG. STATE CRITCISED SUIT COMPLETED; FOR LAND POLICY Printed Arguments in winciata M. King of Itasca County, in McMillan Case to Be Submit Washington Attemp}ing to Se- ted to Court by March 10 cure Relief For Settlers. DEFENDANT MUCH-MARRIED WOMAN OBJECTS TO EVICTIONS PRACTICED It is Also Claimed That She Has | Been Interested in Cases of a ' Interesting Congress in the Building of Two Bridges on Upper Similar Nature Before Mississippi River in Cass That Now Tried. and Itasca Counties The case of Mitchell McDonald vs. Mrs. Amber McMillan, which was) Washington as a representative of transferred from Grand Rapids, to the Northern Minnesota. Development | Bemidji on Monday by Judge C. W.' association, attempting to interest | Stanton, came to a close on Satur-. congress in measures calculated to day the attorneys being ordered to! benefit settlers in this section. His file printed arguments with the court | long residence here and close asso- before March 10. ciation with matters pertaining to Mrs. McMillan was on the stand the development of this portion of the state should make him a valuable fied to meeting with McDonald at emmisary and his ability to put his Hot Springs, Ark., in the spring of case before the proper officials should 1908. The witness claimed that Mc- result in a different condition of Donald at once became very atten- affairs in the near future. The daily tive to her, represented himself as papers of Monday contain an inter- a divorced man and asked her to view with Mr. King in which he is marry him. She also stated that quoted as saying:. McDonald claimed at that time to be. «few persons in Minnesota know worth $2,000,000 and that he would that the taxpayers of the state are loying an attorney at a good an- D salary, whose chief business is t eviet farmers and settlers from their homes-in the northern part of the C. M. King, of Deer River, is in come his wife. Mrs. McMillan fur- ther testified to going with the plaintiff to New Orleans and New York, money being lavished upon her by him during all this time. At a subsequent meeting, according to the witness, they went together to Wind- swamp lands was enacted in 1860. son, Can., and were married. 'Tt antedated the present homestead Over the objection of defendant's jaw, The homesteaders on land that counsel the plaintiff was permitted has been finally decided to belong to show that in 1901 the defendant to. the state, have been evicted as the operation of the swamp land grant. The law giving the state damages for breach of promise. ant) “ipyig Swainp land is that the action was settled for $300. Gees! shales land: 4 4, consi of On‘ Thursday certain depositions tne governor, the state auditor, and from London were read purporting to wal show that Mrs. McMillan was a much- pose neal se f sho - oie sae wedded woman, having married a ps ier Seoremngrereiaa, > arty named Lieut. Greenwood at Which settlers have located, eviction — a proceedings have been instituted by that place. Mrs. McMillan admitted , the state’s legal department and the that the letters introduced as hay- suits have been in charge of an as- ing been written by her to Greenwood sistant attorney general, who, as I were genuine, but that» they were say, is being paid a good annual sal- written for another woman, a cou- ary by the taxpayers. sin, who is now an inmate of an asy-, “(, lum. Witness did not recollect where! ‘More than 200 eviction proecedings this asylum was located. have been instituted by the state against settlers in the Cass Lake Dr. Marshall Ewell, a handwriting expert from Chicago, testified that me panes: abe ge gperonnaters ad he believed the ‘McDonald” signature against persons living in the Duluth state. The evictions are sought under Itasca county bonds, voted on August 19, last, 1 been passed on favorably by attorneys for the successful pur- chasers. The final act in the pro- jon the marriage record at Windsor | Was a forgery. IN GOOO CONDITION | Mrs. MeMillan denied that she was Record of Year’s Business Shows | the woman who in 1901 brought suit and Crookston district, but I am ad- 4 ‘ vised that the number is large. | At Friday’s session of the court, | “The settlers have no protection, because, when the state files on- the land, the federal government for- ceedings required to close the trans- action between the county and the County to be Near Head in against a wealthy Joplin, Mo., man for $35,000 for breach of promise, cohbs Ropes We see mei officers tell settlers that it is up buyers will be taken up at the next meeting of the board when a reso- Amount Transacted | lution will be presented fixing the] The annual financial statement for | form of the bonds. Thereafter the|the county of Itasca will be printed | money will be available for road|in the Herald-Review next week. It | building purposes. The work required) discloses a very satisfactory condi- | in the auditors office and by the/tion and shows that in the amount} county attorney in carrying through|of business transacted, Itasca is well a sale of public bonds is no smaill/| well up toward the head of the coun- task. The statutory requirement |ties of the state. The receipts of} every step taken from the first act|the county from all sources during by the commissioners authorizing an|the year 1912 were $1,253,203.11, with election, the service of notices, the|expenditures of $1,025,222.98, leaving conduct of the election, down to the|a balance at the beginning of 1914 final delivery of the bonds, must be|of $227,980.13. The general tax col- followed with a precision and accur-|lections during the year amounted to acy that will admit of no technical} $892,082.66. The revenue from state flaw. This work is scrutinized andjland and interest collections footed passed on by some of the ablest bond|up $26,588.65, and the mortgage tax attorneys in the United States, and/| collections, $19,927.78. the fact that they report all proceed-| The largest items in the disburse- ings to be errorless bespeaks the}ment column are school district war- highest possible compliment to the|rants issued and the town and vil- official competency of County Audi-| lage warrants, there being $327,818.58 tor Spang and County Attorney Mc-|of the former and $335,569.43 of the Ouat. latter. The road and bridge war- EXPENSES OF TRIAL to $77,093.51.0 There also $41,330.00 issued for bond redemption. The school district and state revenue ac- counted for the expenditure of $88,- 347.67. Opinion of Attorneys is That Itasca Cannot Legally Pay For Trans- fi Ene: Sut Under the name of the Northern erre Ww Out | Veneer company, with Deer River as It is the opinion of attorneys gen-| its place of business, the new con- erally that a county from which a/|¢ern now building its factory at that law suit is transferred through a, Place filed articles of incorporation change of venue is not liable for the With the register of deeds. The cap- costs in the case, which must under ; ital stock is $25,000, divided into 250 the laws as they now stand be born Shares at $100 each. The incorpora- by the county to which the case was|tors and directors are Thomas B. taken. The question has been raised| Wilson, Frank Pierce, Frank Carter, by Hubbard county where a case| William Bahr and Rolan Bahr. It is was taken from Itasca county was re-|¢xpected that the factory will open cently tried. |for business by the first of April and By his attorneys, Fryberger, Ful-| Will give employment to 50 men. ton & Spear of Duluth, A. M. Me- Callum of Deer River, brought suit Veneer Plant at Deer River. This is one of the finest wintery against the Minneapolis & Rainy Riv-|for logging ever known in Minne- er Railway company for damage 8 ane Just snow enough to make Anis property which resulted from fire} a sleigh slip along easy. saying that the plaintiff in that ac- tion was a twin sister. She admits, however, that some of the letters pertaining to the case were written by her. to them to prove their right to oc- cupy the land as against the state and affords no assistance whatever ; and, when a settler is evicted, he has | only one opportunity to regain pos- In their arguments before the session of the farm, which he has court on Saturday, Attorney Lara- converted from a nonproductive to ee ed ir McMillan, took the P0- productive condition. sition that the assignment of the iron “ | ore royalty was a compromise settlo-| Diigo ej ech meaner ment and that being regarded as to purchase at the first sale ordered binding at that time it cannot now; by the state land board. Under this be attacked. Attorney Zane, for the : . vd law, if a man has’occupied a quarter plaintiff, contends that such settle- epics: a put ses eee . ment was so induced by fraud and); rf ‘ments on it, a house, a barn, andi | misrepresentation and that the court din: cannot on this account permit it FS scan i ee ae stand. ;so that it is producing good crops, ; : and it is awarded the shee er | f = . the swamp grant, he can buy the | Prof. Corwin Appreciated. land and the improvements at the | The views shown by Prof. Corwin first sale by the state, upon payment | With his stereoptican last Friday | of the price of the land, In this way, | night were well appreciated by the he is able to get his farm and im- audience assembled there. Following provements back. | this, Prof. Corwin sang a couple of, “If he fails to exercise this right Fpipeind y at the first sale, and buys his quar- | The meeting was then resolved in- ter section at a subsequent sale, he to a meeting of the farmers to dis- has to pay not only for the land, cuss the advisability of having a put for his improvemntes. , Farmers short course in March, a; “That's the way the law operates ‘community fair next fall, before the ana what is the result? The set- , county fair, and of deciding questions ines: ’ wtih dupa haar evicted b 5 y the jeoncerning united action in potato state are, in many ‘1 7 y instances, going raising. It was thought best to bring to other states and to Canada. these matters up for decision at the, next meeting of the Farmer's club,| “The other side of the state’s pol- Feb. 7th, Prof. Corwin has promised icy concerns the effort to bring peo- to be here at that time and a full ple to the state. I have shown how, attendance of the members of the throughthe eviction process, many _club is desired at this meeting. ‘persons are driven out through the | Times are changing these days and state land board and the attorney | “cooperation” is our watch-word. It general's office. The state govern- is permeating eveyr trade and profes- ment, through the commissioner of sion and why not that of famirng? immigration, is making every effort Lend your voice and action, farmers to bring people into Minnesota, tell- ; to help a good cause along that ing them about opportunities for se- _ promises so much for you, “Help and curing good homes in my own sec- you will be he¥’ped,” is a motto that tion. Thus we have the spectacle of cannot see the justice of driving! them out.” One part of Mr. King’s mission to Washington is to get legislation from congress for the benefit of settlers who are forced by the state to re- linquish their lands. In many instan- ces the evicted farmers have been on their lands several years, in some cases, as many as three years. That is now the full government home-' stead period. He wants congress to pass a law giving such of the set- tlers as take up other land credit on the new entry for such time as was spent on the land that went to the state. For instance, Mr. King proposes that, if a settler lived two years on’ the land embraced in his original, holding he should be required to live} only one year longer on the new claim when he could get patent up- on offering the usual proof. He has taken the matter up with Senator Nelson and members of the house | delegation from Minnesota and be- lieves that there is good prospect of congress granting the setlters the relief he asked for. Mr. King is now trying to get an appropriation for building two bridg- es on the Minnesota forest’ reserve in Itasca and Cass counties. These} bridges are on what is known as| the Duluth-St. Vincent wagon road, which is being built from Duluth to East Grand Forks. One bridge is to! cross the Mississippi river at a point | about a mile west of Ball Club, and the other is to span what is known} as Pikes bay. The land embraced in} the forest reserve was bought from the Indians by the federal govern-} ment and it is not taxable by the local government. The Elwell law provides that one-fourth of the cost; of constructing state and county road shall be assessed against the proper- ty benefitted, but this land cannot be taxed. “As the lands cannot be taxed for the road improvement, we believe the government should pay for buidding these two bridges,” said Mr. King. “They will cost about $20,000 each. I have asked members of the dele- gation to try and secure an appro- priation of this amount in the In- dian appropriation bill. Senator Clapp has promised to help and I am ‘is survived by a wife and ten children hopeful that he will have the provi- sion put into the bill in column of the Herald- Review will be found a notice an- nouncing that the first land sale ci the 1914 season will be held here on March 16, Much additional acreage has been appraised during the past year and will be placed on the mar- ket during the coming year. Lists of the tracts to be offered at this sale may be secured from the office of the State Auditor at St. Paul, and may latter be had from County Auditor Spang here. Capt. William Wivell of the Cros- by mine at Nashwauk, died there on Monday morning of Bright’s disease. | 1: Capt. Wivel, besides being one of the |} best known mining men of the dis- trict, took a keen interest in local affairs, and was village treasurer of Zz & q Py F § 5 i a 4 B 5 a & & q = 3 in 3 eight boys and two girls, eight of whom live at home. [ rca lHle Who Rums May Not Read ANY a merchant has been do for his competitor, the mail order house, to consider that it might have in it some good for himself. Yet instead of being a bugbear, threatening destruc- tive competition, the parcel post in actuality broadens tremen- dously the smaller merchant's field of trade possibilities. It enables him to deal with every _ person within fifty miles of his place of business at a lower pos- tal rate and much more expedi- | 295, making her total 3,678,000. jcredited with an even million ARE CLOSMG UP PUNO COW Half Dozen Contestants Are Well Over Three Million Mark in Race for Big Prixe. PHENOMENAL GAINS ARE F The Results of the Week Are Most Inauguated — About Six ~ Weeks Remain. This week the entire contestant list has been torn apart and put together again. In many ways it has been the most interesting period of the contest. Leaders have changed places’ and some who were not leaders have come to the front with surprising to- tals. Number 17, who was third om the list last week, now comes out as No. 1 with a total of 3,687,225, a gain of nearly a million since the last report. No. 146 is in second place, having secured a gain of 343, 40, who occupied the head of the at the last count, now looms up having added no votes since last re- port. Two contenders gained over two million votes apiece and anothe gained 3,000,000, while No. 59 i and No. 81, the former having a to- tal of 2,505,000 and the latter 2,070,- 374. The most remarkable : the lot, however, is made by No. who, with but 420,000 votes to credit last. week, now comes fo! We are assured by many that will make special efforts to boost the Herald-Review and incidentally their own standing. during the time left. S 3 3 -118,830 {8,016,500 3.001 600 i B ae He : gS 5S chile e382) 382 5 2 3} 29225258; SS22285 508 Ee 52.2200 et at BBS pe nssotecet24o Rosny 2e38ne82 3328288 333 Ere pro pono; SSeB58 peer t) seeekseers 23 3 a 3 has the following reference to M. A. Spooner, which will be