oil P9iNNmdwt* ''••:^¥i%W& .C^E-^-S" INTERNATIONAL MINNESOTA. AT JANUARY VOL 2 FALLS. NO. 29 INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS VOL. 8 NO. 40 BORDER BUDGET VOL. 13 NO. 3 THE EMPIRE OF wages from $25 to $45 a month COMMISSIONERS zero, the extensive street parade that FIRE LOSS SUITS because the traveling public is showing had been planned was abandoned. a tendency !to discontinue alto­ However, the public had an opportunity NORTHERN MINN. HOLD FUST MEETING ARE TRANSFERRED gether or to reduce to one-half the to witness something of the gratuities with which they formerly military character of the organization rewarded Pullman porters who merited in the short march from the station such consideration. Supreme Court to the consular agency on Center Its Agricultural Wealth is the Greatest General Routine Business Was Transacted—Commissioner Canadian Northern Succeeds With The system by which a great corporation re %Ctin Be Recent in the State—Settlers Wm. Durrin Motion In Only Six of TwentyFour is able to hire an army of IThere tibm a pole reaching out a yphoitf Epidemic. Are Needed. Elected Chairman. Cases. employes and let the people pay the dow the flag of Italy was flung,, A%."' j. bill is very attractive to the stockholders. Italian national air was played by DEA FROM POLLUTED WATER PRESS DESIGNATED OFflCAIL PAPER. ALSO NEEDS NEW STATE POLICY. ATTORNEY BEFORE JUDGE STANTON. but it does not appeal to the the bands from Chisholm and Eveleth outsider very strongly. The tipping and everybody saluted the colors. It The fame of Northern Minnesota as esbta municipalities are liable The new Board of County Commissioners system is a nuisance under any circumstance. was also too cold to string out this feature, Hector Baxter of St. Paul, attorney a vast agricultural region which cannot in d&ttage suit for the death of citfc held their first meeting at the The sleeping car companies in the United States for the Canadian and the societies marched quickly be excelled in this or scarcely any zens who contract disease through court house last Tuesday. The meeting have capitalized that nuisance Northern railway company, has to the hall obtained for the gathering other state is rapidly growing.. The drit king polluted city water. This is was called to order by retiring and the public has stood for it very appeared before Judge Stanton, in and" there the patriotic exercises work of publicity and education which the decision of the supreme court of Chairman Reed after which the board district court chambers and secured patiently. Now, however, it would were carried through. was begun but a very few years ago is Minnesota handed down on December was re-organized with Commissioner the transfer of six cases brought by seem that the travelers are beginning Consular Agent Castigliano and other Durrin of Northome elected as chairman already bearing fruit in the many inquires 23rd 4n two cases arising from the recent settlers living in the northern part of to rebel. According to the testimony prominent Italian range residents and Commissioner Reed of Loman regarding the possibility of acquiring typhoid epidemic in Mankato. Beltrami county against the Canadian of the porters, their is a tendency made addresses in Italian and Victor land in this region and al90 The decision is of great importance to elected vice-chairman. The Northern railway company for alleged to give nothing or to contribute Powers spoke in English. in the many favorable articles which every municipality in the state. new members of the board are Robert damages caused by fires claimed to about 15 cents in place of the The consular agency is visited by The supreme court does not hold Chute of Ray, who was elected last have appeared in farm and other papers have been set by sparks from locomotives customary quarter. The public is scores of Italians each day. They fall as commissioner of the first district relative to this section of country that the Mankato residents who sued belonging to the railway company, taking the real way to free itself from seek the advice of Castigliano on a in response to requests from subscribers the city are entitled to verdicts, but in place of J. R. Harman of Littlefork, each case involving an amount further annoyance. Sleeping cars hundred things and from all reports it does hold that suit can be maintained and M. A. Ulvedahl of Grand of those papers to be informed in of $2,000 or over. must have porters. If the public refuses the range Italian consular agency is Falls, who was elected' to take the regard to conditions here. A striking against the city and that the to pay them the company will Eighteen more cases, in each of likely to become a most important place of C. L. Hillstead of Big Falls. example of this is found in the last city is liable if damages can be proven. have to, as it should. The transition which the amount of damages claimed one. Mr. Ulvedahl is the first officer to be issue of the Farmer, published in St. D^lia Keeyer and Kate Flannagan, period may be a trifle rough on the is less than $2,000, but in which elected in this county of the Socialistic Paul in connection with a discussion administratrices of their deceased the total exceeds $32,000, are pending man with the "brush," but it will not ANNUAL ELECTION persuasion. After the transaction of the methods followed in the sale of husbands' estate, are the Mankato appellants in the district court. Pioneer Press. last long.—St. Paul and the city of Mankato is As a foreign corporation, the Canadian of other routine business the various state lands. AT FORT FRANCES the respondent. Northern has the right to have bids were opened for county printing The Farmer endorses the plan suggested MASTERS' BOWLING cases involving amounts exceeding at the Brainerd convention The suits resulted from an epidemic and contracts were awardedasfollows: $2,000 tried in the federal courts. Attorney of typhoid. fever in Mankato about For the publishing of the county proceedings of the Northern Minnesota Development ALLEY ROBBED twc ago. The disease was traced Baxter stated that in the and other county legal notices association for the cure of At the annual election of the village Fourteenth and Fifteenth judicial evils arising from the present system l\yj£he- state board |©f health to The International Falls Press of Fort Frances last Mai^y the districts,- cases are now pending of handicaps that makes the buying sew^pll^hiiHi^ad. polluted the city for the publishing of the delinquent following officers were elected against the Canadian Northern railway On Monday night, "Billy" Woods, of state lands a trying and vexatious, wat.^. There were many cases of tax list. The International For Reeve, Dr. McKenzie for councilmen, company in which a total of over Falls Echo for the publishing of the of Fort Frances, broke into the pool typHpii and several deaths, and the as well as uninviting, process. The S. Noden, A. Carter, J. O. $80,000 is claimed fgr:damages alleged room and bowling alley belonging to statf tuoard of health made a thorough financial statement, The Northome value of these lands is high and a few Myers, O. Jalbert, J. C. Scott, J. W. to have been caused byfires, the origin O. J. Masters, and robbed the cash investigation. The source of the i*$»lut.jon Record. After the allowing of several fortunately situated individuals have Waters. of which is attributed to sparks register of forty dollars. Chief of was found, the fault corrected bills the board adjourned to meet been enabled to snap up the lands offered The by-law which was submitted to from the railway company's- locomof Police White had noticed Woods again on March 2nd next. at auction, with the result that and tti* epidemic was stayed. the people limiting the taxation on tives. c. prowling suspiciously around during the actual prospective settlers have 1 he administratrices of two men the proposed Shevlin-Clarke saw mill Quit Tipping Porters He wished to have the greater the day and when the robbery was reported who had died of the fever, filed suits been at a positive disadvantage. to an assessed valuation of $25,000 for number of the cases transfered to the The porters on the Pullman cars to him, he at once reported to "The state has also taken the attractiveness agamstfthe city of Mankato, alleging a period of ten years was unanimously United States courts, but Judge Stanton the Fort Frances authorities who have petitioned the company to raise away from state lands by tha if the deaths of their husbands passed. permitted tne change in only six' the sales of timber and withholding wei£ dqe to the negligence of the city instances, these being cases where the in allowing its water supply to become mineral rights," says The Farmer. "The man who makes a business of damages claimed were greater than. "All these things have necessarily polluted* causing an epidemic of typhoid farming" says the University Farm $2,000. hindered the development of the northern ljrliich resulted in the death of International Tails, Minnesota It was officially claimed by agents part of the state. their husbands. Press, "should have a business card sent out under the direction of Chief "Admittedly one of the great needs The feity of Mankato demurred to some printed letterheads, with the Fire Warden Andrews that the fire of Northern Minnesota today is a thir complaint on the ground that as The Koochiching Company name of his farm home thereon: and that destroyed Baudette and Spooner, greater number of actual set tlers. The a government it coiild not be sued, pay his bills with checks on his bank, was probably originated by sparks "i and wrgfi exempt because it was carrying need of the right kind of settlers and from a locomotive, and it is very likely all these little things not only "make the proper encouragement of these out government functions. The Proprietor of settlers is far more acute than the casH v^appealed on this demurrer. that some of these cases, if not business" but help to dignify his calling, necessity for the.state to become enormously Th?i Mtteme^jaj$,,in a decision writ- practically all of them, involved that improve his social standing and The Original Townsite ennahce^hls credit^ disaster. lands or the sale of the timber upon that the city isliabi'e in its private or them or the mineral underlying them. corporate capacity, and an action for wm The area of Northern Minnesota land damages can be maintained.—Owatonna Developed water power of 34,000 H. P. growing to clover or pasturing a dairy Journal. Zimmerman Electric Co. Largest paper, pulp and sulphite mill cow means more to the state than the west of New York State. profits of our present state land selling DISTRICT COURT system. Furthermore there Center of the extensive logging operations should never be a day or week in the in Northern Minnesota. Dealers and Contractors NOWJN SESSION year when a genuine settler cannot No dull season through failure of crops. buy state land for agricultural purposes In Electric Wiring, Be identified with this thriving community. if he so desires. He has this opportunity in other states, why should The adjourned term of the District Fixtures and Supplies he not have the same chance in Minnesota? Lots at reasonable prices, at Court convened in the new court This should properly be one house last Tuesday morning with Terms To Suit All. of the first steps in real development, Judge B. F. Wright presiding. Immediately Estimates Cheerfully Furnished and has been properly suggested by after the opening of the For full particulars apply the recent development meeting. court the Judge proceeded to grant "Northern Minnesota is today an citizenship certificates to such as were No. Office Corner of 5 Ave. and 3rd St. Phone 177 unappreciated agricultural empire. eligible and appeared before him with C. B. KINNEY, Sales Manager Comparatively few people know that proper witnesses to prove such eligibility. it is perhaps the greatest clover and UNIQUE INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. (tame grass section of the United Wednesday was practically all taken •.^1 States, that its loam soils are capable 1 up with the trial of Aaberg vs of producing the very finest quality Church Lumber Company in regard to of small root and grain crops known settlement claimed by Aaberg to be that properly developed it can be due him for poles and posts he sold to made one of our greatest dairy sections, the defendant company. To-day an that it is susceptible of supporting adjournment is being taken because THEATRE the densest population of the ACTUAL BARGAINS IN SHOES of the absence of attorneys who are state. The average northern farmer dependant upon the train from the will agree that this is not over stating south which is delayed about eight at the the facts. But actual settlers, Motion Pictures Every Night hours by an accident. properly encouraged by roads to town, The Judge together with court reporter, 1 schools and accessible markets, alone George Gardner, arrived from Koochiching slM5ore MOTION PICTURE PROGRAM CHANGES can bring about this development. his home at Park Rapids on Tuesday The proper handling of our state morning. Many of the leading attorneys Sundays, Tuesdays Thursday and Saturdays lands will do much to start the homeseekers from this and adjoining counties direction.'1 wave in this were present. The Farmer concludes with a recommendation SPECIAL VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS that the legislature ITALIAN CONSULAR Ladies Shoes (lace or button) Friday, Saturday Sunday appropriate funds generously for the Yr~ state immigration board, which it gun metal calf slashed from AGENCYJSTABLISHED says is the best advertising agency the state possesses. $2.50 to $1-95 Two Shows Nightly First Show 7:30 The frequency with which articles Ladies Heavy Tan Shoes, (lace) similar in tone to this are published Nibbing Is the Common Center for in journals having no direct connection to—$3.00 slashed from $4.00 Italian Societies of the This Week's Vaudeville with the northern part of the Range. Will clean out short lines of state is peculiarly encouraging to the The Youngers men who have been carrying on the Ladies Shoes regardless of price. burden of the work educating the ITALY'S COLORS WERE UNFURLED. rest of the world to an understanding Fifteen per cent discount on all The royal Italian consular agency of what is offered here. Duluthians the Ladies Shoes in the house. for the range established by the Italian have'had a large part in this work and government, which has thousands and the Northern Minnesota Development Equilibrists of subjects in this region, was formally Goodyear Ladies Rubbers—the World's Standard. association has of course been dedicated at Hibbing Sunday, with an active and powerful agency since it 4* all the eclat that the efforts of the was organized. Anything and everything in Rubber Footwear for Italian leaders could put into it. Introducing The day begaG with the arrival of afterjdue examination secured from Men and Women. the Italian societies from the other Woods a full confession and about Roman Posing and feats of Strength cities and towns of the range, of twenty dollars of the money, the balance which there are nine. The Chisholm of Xhe forty dollars having been Koochiching Shoe Store and Nashwauk members were the first A Refined high Class Act spent for an overcoat and a few to come and at 11 o'clock the Duluth, drinks. When Woods was arraigned Missabe & Northern brought the he waved examination and will be Don't visit International Falls without attending Eveleth society and the remaining Intei aational Falls, Minn. Third Street brought before Judge Wright in the bodies. the UNIQUE THEflTRE Owing to the intense cold, 15 below district court to-day for sentence. •im- 4SBBi -.- gife «. LiCT 11