The CANADIAN BANK commission and agreed upon a scale International Falls Press are with the nesota not acquainted the too smart firm whlcli employed her are of values to be used throughout the facts. You must see that they informed. was put to vast expense to work up and Border Budget county. They are now at work look? is is dresses from patterns resurrected from That all that needed. OF COMMERCE ing over their districts and assaaMng those of years before which- proved County Official Paper The people are fair and want the absolutely unsalable. the property upon this basis. right thing to be done always. But, Published Every Thursday Morning It is by no means exclusively for the Each lot of land is looked over, its like our neighbors in Missouri, they purpose of stealing other people's original physical characteristics considered, HEAD OFFIC£, TORONTO. INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS will insist upon being shown, and it is fcSTABLISHFD 867 designs that "pushing" firms enlist PUBLISHING COMPANY your duty to show them. Begin and the timber estimated, the location tlie services of well dressed recruits. 3 WALKER, President Paid-up Capita! $10,000,000 E. noted and its market value according continue an earnest, enthusiastic campaign A. H. FERRELL. Manager Surplus, 6,000,000 to the scale of values is determined. and your efforts will not go unrewarded. Last summer a lady arrived at a LAIRD. I ALEX. General snaeei smart seaside hotel, the sort of place Ownership is not considered but SUBSCRIPTION SI .50 A YEAR where people stay for the whole season. everything is assessed on the same I recently met and conversed with a Branch:s throughout Canada, aad in the United States and England She was pretty, smart and perfectly basis. When the assessment books leading member of the state legislature Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, turned out—so well dressed, in 1909, at the post office at* International Falls, are returned to the county auditor, who lives in one of the southwestern CAlfiyPC D1UV nCDADTMCUT deposits of *1 and upwards .re Minnesota, under the Act of Congress of fact, that other women, filled with the estimates and notes of the assessors uAvlnbu DANA ULlAnllvlLllI counties, in which there is March 3. 1879. envy, did their best to find out who received and interest auowed are to be put on file with them probably not a native tree or an acre was her dressmaker. at current rates, and is paid twice a year. The depositor is subject to no and will be considered in making any either of school or swamp land, But, though she frequently boasted THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1910 delay in the withdrav. -I of the whale or any portion of the deposit. change in the assessed valuation found that he is much interested in that the people were perfect treasures The estimating of timber in this and that her bills amounted to next to the state land question, though he AIM IMP RV MA II Accounts may be opened by mail and monies DANMIlU DI III AIL ADDRESS BY nothing, she steadfastly refused to disclose deposited or withdrawn in this work is not an attempt to increase way with equal has never visited Northern Minnesota, the name. facility. the valuation or the tax but simply to and he volunteered the statement One day, however, she accidentally secure the most reliable and accurate F. M. GIBSON, Manager, Fort Frances. Ont. to me that he believes that the laws Branch JUDGE STANTON dropped an envelope inclosing a bill information to be used as a basis for directing the manner of disposition of from the mysterious dressmaker, a bill the assessment. The result will be these lands are unreasonable and artfully "faked" so as to show prices the lowering of the taxes on land now wrong and should be radically changed. of startling cheapness. Within a .week Continued from first page. assessed too high and an increase in He further deplored the fact the firm that employed this clever lady the amount paid on valuable land welcomed a dozen new customers. that homeseekers are leaving Minnesota, it occupied and improved by a bona Parlor Theatre that is now undervalued. Hotels, too, find the lady tout most while the state has such vast fide settler. The taxes on the property useful. Last autumn a very pretty areas of unoccupied land, and asserted thus directly and indirectly added girl arrived at a certain Scotch health Open Air Band Concert his belief that Minnesota state lands to the valuation of the state would resort establishment with her mother. ought to be on the market every day soon exceed the value of the land, to Beginning this evening the Xnternation She was smart, well dressed, a clever in the year, instead of one day in the Corner Third Street and Fiftl) Ave. say nothing of the manifold beneficial Falls band will give an open air musician—Just the sort of girl to be year as at present, and that every results of thus populating spacely settled concert at the band stand opposite thoroughly popular with both sexes. reasonable effort should be made by communities. The policy of the TWO SHOWS EVERY NIGHT At once she became the center of a the Hotel International annex every the state to speedily place an actual state should be founded upon the large coterie of admirers. Thursday evening. The band boys Then after a few days her vivacious settler on every quarter section. This principle that every tract of land in have practiced faithfully during the 7:30 andfQ:00 expression gave place to a look of unutterable gentleman will be in the next house the state should be some citizen's past few months and are now in a boredom. "I can't stand this of representatives and you will find in home, and the nearer it comes to the position to give the people of International place. It's so deadly dull," she said him an earnest, able champion of any accomplishment of that purpose the Falls some high-class music. over and over again. Finally one meritorious measure that you may nearer perfect it will be. The open air concerts will be given in evening she announced that she could Three Changes of Program a Week propose. And so you will find sincere, Much of the land in this county is of the appropriation consideration not endure it an hour longer. She loyal advocates of a greater Minnesota of superior quality, as rich and productive was going. made by the village council and the among the members from every as any in the state. This "Where?" was the question. TICKETS 10 aod 15 ceQts appreciation of the boys for assistance section of the state, all ready and statement has verification in the fact "Back to Blitherington," was the decided rendered the band by subscriptions willing to champion your cause if you answer. "It may be a little that in the year 1908 the school lands from the business men of the town. dearer, but you get your money's sold in this county brought an average will only interest yourselves enough Following is the program for tonight's worth there. One has such a good to acquaint them with the facts. price of $8.86 per acre, while the aggregate concert: time there!" sales in the state, including Make a mental note of these few March Indiana State Band Next day she left, and before the facts and reflect upon them: Koochiching 19 counties, brought an average of Overture Living Pictures week was out a large proportion of county contains about 1,800,000 only $6.58 per acre and in the same Govatte Three Leaders her friends had followed her.—London year the swamp lands sold in this acres it has approximately 700,000 Grand Magazine. Overture All Around Town acres of swamp land and 186,000 acres county brought an average price of Serenade Cupid's Charms of school land. In other words, more $9.20 per acre, while the aggregate A Fine Mixup. March Little Grant than one-half of its total area is owned "What do you mean by this, sir?' demanded sales in the state, including 16 counties, March Bill Board the angry advertiser. brought an average of only $6.23 by the state. The greater part of Golden Grain Belt Beers "Wli.it's the matter?" inquired the per acre. this state land, though good agricultural One of the Season's Best Plays publisher of ihe paper. The time is now at hand when actual land, is covered with merchantable "This advertisement of 'our delicious Eugene Moore's latest play "The conditions loudly and unmistakably timber. By legislative enactment, canned meats from the best colonial Harpers Whiskey Tiger and the Lamb" is classed as proclaim that the people of not by constitutional provision, houses'—you've made it read 'horses."' one of the "six best sellers" of the Koochiching and neighboring counties the state demands the cash for this —London Tit-Bits. dramatic season. To those who read must present their grievances and timber before the land is sold. The and admire the stories of Mr. John El Paterno Cigars appeal to the fairness and justice of same minimum price is placed upon Re-enforced. Fox, Jr., (and there are many) "The 'What is an ossified man, pa?" the great commonwealth of Minnesota the land, stripped of all timber that Tiger and the Lamb" will strongly 'I'm not certain, but I think that is to do the right thing by that important will make as much as a three inch top what they call one. who has turned to appeal. It is not a dramatization of portion of its domain which fence post, as has been demanded for UNDERWOOD & HASSELBARTh. Local Agents concrete."—New York Pres§. any of Mr. Fox's stories, but the characters awaits development. And this association, state land in the richest agricultural are very similar and the locality formed, as understand counties in the state. The state sells International Falls, Minnesota. He is a wise man who wastes no energy is the same. Col. M. J. Warring and as its name implies, for the purpose the fee to only the surface, reserving on pursuits for which he is not has given this play a production that of aiding in the county's development, all mineral rights, and probably the fitted.—Gladstone. is complete in every detail, under the is at once confronted with a right to use the surface itself if required personal direction of the author, and real, live, important, public duty, the for mining operations. In the will be at the Village Hall, International manner of the performance of which year 1910 only 9,000 acres, or less than Falls, on Monday night, May 23. duty will conspicuously affect the future 1-200 part of the states holdings in development of this section of this county is offered for sale, and no STATIONERY STEALIHGTHE STYLES the state. one can buy any of that unless he is at International Falls on May 10th, The state roust be induced to adopt with cash enough in his pocket to pay a more liberal policy in the disposition for the timber, besides 15% of the of its lands,—a policy that will attract settlers and help to transform purchase price of the land and the interest London Millinery Pirates and for a year in advance. the wilderness into farms and homes. And then reflect upon the fact that Their Methods. 'One suggest on that is not without and OFFICE SUPPLIES of the 6,000,000 acres of swamp land rmerit is to place large quantities of selected by the state of Minnesota, this land upon the market at frequent TRICKS OF SMART WOMEN. 3,000,000 acres have been given away, intervals, to be sold to actual, bona fide settlers only, and to be so generous timber and all, to railroad companies. with the timber as to amount to Then let your thoughts revert to the Use Their Position to Get Look at an inducement for its purchase and need of settlers, the demand for roads, the Advance Model* and Then Sell JF and conditions generally in Koochiching settlement. This plan could be adopted Their Information In Berlin—One as to school and swamp lands without county and then ask yourselves Case Where There Was a Slip. you are in business you the necessity of a constitutional whether you have a duty to perform. The object of the modern millinery amendment. Another suggestion is I trust that the deliberations of this quite ofter) need something pirate is by some means to get hold to carry out the spirit and purpose of meeting and of all subsequent meetings of the new fashions well in advance in tfye line of Stationery and the swamp land grant in good faith by of this association will bring the of the coming season, and, however taking away the minimum price restriction best possible results, and that you jealously guarded the new models are, Office Supplies. If you are just and sell a large quantity of will succeed in so awakening and she—most pirates are women—very these lands at frequent intervals, at arousing public sentiment that the often succeeds, and the real owner has starting in business you will UQ- public sale, to the highest bidder, who great state of Minnesota will hasten the mortification of seeing his novelty anticipated by some firm of infinitely will be required to become an actual to so amend its laws that settlers and doubtedly need office furniture, less importance than his own. settler. To so dispose of this land for homes will not be sacrificed to greed, Last spring the proprietor of one of booKs of differeQt l^iQds, together less than $3.67 an acre might require and that the real development to the smartest shops in the west end of a constitutional amendment, but which our resources entitle us will be London noticed a lady walking in the witb minor supplies. probably enough of it could be sold to made possible. park attired in a dress almost an exact accomplish the result desired at this copy of a brand new model of his price and more, thus leaving the matter THE PRESS is in a positioi) to fit own, a model which not half a dozen To Equalize Valuations to legislative amendment. Some people had seen besides Its inventor you out from your greatest Qeed method, at least approximating these and himself. The design had been registered, In Koochiching county we have suggestions can be devised and enacted but the copy was just sufficiently about 20,000 tracts of taxable land. to the smallest, aod our prices are altered to steer clear of legal into law, which will bring settlers This land is assessed by forty assessors difficulties. into this section in sufficient numbers, in different districts. The timber and right. A most searching inquiry revealed so that, with a liberal state policy to soil conditions vary and in the majority the fact that the culprit was a lady aid in the construction of roads, the of cases location affects the We handle Globe-WerQicKe and who had always been considered one now unoccupied, untaxed state lands market value. To get a uniform or of the firm's smartest and best customers. will be the homes of thrifty settlers, Macey office desl^s, filing cabinets, fair valuation on this land from forty the state will add many thousands of men starting out with different ideas Her birth and position were less impeachable sectional booK-cases, etc. JourQals, families to its population and the public than the state of her and without any set scale of values is wealth will be enormously enhanced. finances, and she had accepted the impossible. ledgers, cast) booKs, day offer of a Berlin firm to dress her on To get the most uniform and fair condition that she supplied it with the Agitation is what is needed. Wendell assessment it is necessary that the assessors booKs, typewriter and carbon very latest creations that found their Phillips, the great anti-slavery all start out with the same way from Paris to London. advocate, was right when he said, ideas with regard to the value of different papers, letter files, card indexes, Having the entree of the innermost "Agitation is the method that plants kinds of property and that each sanctum of the London firm referred the school by the side of the ballot assessor shall consider each item in inK wells, pens, peocils, and in fact to, she had taken advantage of its confidence box." There is work for this and setting his valuation. in her to draw its designs from anythiog iQ the stationery line. similar organizations of Northern memory and post them to Berlin. This year the assessors of the county The London firm had no legal remedy Minnesota to do. The people of Min­ met with a member of the tax whatever. All it could do was when the autumn styles were due and the lady called again to inform her Cleaning that her patronage was no longer desired. Press Publishing Co. IOHN FARFI V/l 111 l/iULL Another lady detected in a similar "w" Pressing trick by the manager of a Regent street firm was very cleverly punished. Merchant Upon her nest visit she was received STATIONERY. OFFICE SUPPLIES. LEGAL BLANKS, MAGAZINES with the same cordiality as ever and Tailor All Work Guaranteed taken into the showroom, where the First-Class Printing at Prices That Are Right latest models were usually displayed. She never suspected until too late Shop over Berg & that the room bad been specially arranged Smith's Store for her reception. The models exhibited were anything but new. and