PRESS. Iec* SCHOOL FUND soft federal positions upon their re pfHMM PreSS the houses oc­ International Falls tirement from congress on March 4. cupied and applications arriving every Steam Heated Rooms. Perfect Service It is the understanding that and Border Budget day for more houses and more rooms. OF THE STATE Messrs. Tawney and Carter have been Cafe The Aldine tendered and will probably accept positions It is said that by the time the Panama OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER on the International Waterways canal is opened, railroads will be P. A. NBPFBW, Prop. Permanent Fund of $21,000,000 Will Commission created by agreement completed so that passengers from INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Located in the new litis Block is now open both DAY and NIGHT between the United States and Probably Reach $200,000,000 PUBLISHING COMPANY New York, Chicago, the Twin Cities, and we are prepared to cater to the most fastidious. Canada. San Fransisco and other stations on Within 50 Year. While the compensation of members WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF SUNDAY DINNERS at 35 cents 9EORGE P. WATSON. Editor and Manager. the trunk lines can ride to the canal per plate. Relular meals 35 cents and up. When you are in of the commission has not been fixad, without change of cars providing he STATE AUDITOR lYERSON'S REPORT. International Falls give us a trial. If not satisfied, $1.50 A YEAR it is expected that each of its mem has the price or can ride the rods. SUBSCRIPTION tell us—if satisfied, tell others. Minnesota is entitled to congratulations bers wiil be paid $10,000 a year. Commutation Tickets. Rates to Steady Boarders on the foresight and stamina of The report here is that the commission Entered as Second Clas& Matter June 23, In another column we are pleased 1900, at the post office at International Falls, the public officials who saved to posterity will be made up of Messrs. Taw Minnesota, under the Act of Congress of to be able to publish a poem composed the millions that now are in the March 3.1879. ney and Carter and a third man yet one of the many newly arrived by state school fund and the many more to be selected. The commission will business men in our city, Major T. F. millions that will be added to the be in session only apart of each year. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1911 King. This is a "companion" Doem fund, within a few years. Minnesota It is charged with the duty of defining to the hustling bustling one of last When In Littlefork Stop at the has a permanent school fund of $21,000,000, the uses of boundary waters by The Prince of Wales has got the week. Mr. King is no novice as a with every reason to expect The Lllloe Hotel United States and Canada. measles. composer of either poetry, or music that the total will be increased to he has composed several plays, and $200,000,000 within a half century. VALUATION OF ALL Pope Pius has been sick in bed most comes from a family of literary folk. And all because Governor Ramsey, The PRESS hopes to be able to publish Restaurant in Connection of the week with influenza. Judge Thomas Wilson, Thomas Galbraith, articles of timely interest from time PROPERTY IN STATE State Auditor Braden and a Meals at all Hours Uncle Sam is going to call for bids to time, from his versatile pen, for few other far-seeing public officials for a dozen aeroplanes, in a few days the pleasure and edification of its Nect Door to the Bank wisely shaped the policy to be pursued for our signal corps. readers. in handling the lands that had been Feed Barn in Connection The assessed value of the land of granted to the state for school and HENRY LILLOE, Proprietor The Lental season begins next Wednesday the state has grown from $4.39 an FOUR-YEAR TERM BILL. other purposes. may the thoughts suggested acre in 1870 to $15.28 in 1910. This is It was proposed that the lands The four-year term bill for county shown in an abstract of the valuatian by it be helpful to us all. should be sold and the proceeds turned officers made its appearance in the and taxes paid by each county in the over to the townships in which the house late Tuesday. R. C. Dunn introduced There were no over Sunday drunks state for all purposes.' This is issued school sections were located. That it by request of the county to be sentenced and fed and housed at by the state auditor, S. G. Iverson, •s would have resulted in frittering officers' associations, and it applies to for the members of the legislature. the tax-payers expense last Monday away of the funds without accomplishing 6b all county officers in the state except E A S O I N It shows that the total taxes levied morning. more than temporary results. judge of probate, whose terms are fixed in 1910 was $33,373,921, an increase of Judge Wilson and others succeeded in at two years by the constitution. General Contractors $3,000,000 over the preceding year. Yesterday was the 179th anniversary securing the adoption of the permanent The bill extends the present terms to The total taxes collected all over the of Washington's birthday. The central fund, the money to be 1914, when all officers will be elected schools, the banks and the post-office state in 1870 was $2,619,764. PLUMBING, HEATING, WATER and SEWER WORK invested and the income to be apportioned for terms of four years. were closed and the flag floated proudly The total value of personal property prorata among the schools of ESTIMATES FURNISHED over the schoolhouse. in the state, according to the returns the state. Mr. Braden later succeeded TtlEM'S OUR SENTIMENTS TOO. by the taxing officials, was $181,419,000 in securing the enactment of a law PLUMBING and HEATING FIXTURES at RIGHT PRICES When our legislature is no longer Somebody, unknown to us, recently in 1910, and the total assessed reserving mineral rights in all state mailed a postal card from Havana, valuation of all property in the state dominated by the brewery interests on lands and providing for the leasing of one side and the county optionists on Cuba, asking if we would trade Minnesota was slightly over $1,000,000,000. OVESON BLOCK Intrnetional Falls. Minn. FOURTH AVE. those lands on a royalty basis. As a the other side, there will be some farm land for an orange and result of his wisdom in refusing to REGULATE FISHING IN grape fruit farm in that country. Not hope of getting an unbiased vote on sell mineral lands outright, the school vital public matters. May such a on your life. In the first place we fund will get more than $1,000,000 time soon come. have no Minnesota farms,which we regret, BOUNDARY WATERS from one section of land in the northern and in the second place we part of the state. A. Setterlund & Co. Lumberman, Thomas Shevlin, when wouldn't trade it for a farm in Cuba It would have been a very easy matter interviewed, yesterday, by the PRESS if we did own one. Minnesota farm for Minnesota to have had its in regard to the reports that have land has made more men rich, has Regulation of the fisheries in Lake school lands disposed of at low prices, been circulating around, relative to more satisfied, contented and happy of the Woods, Rainy lake and Rainy and its mineral lands sold for a song. families and is a hundred times more the sale of his interests to the Weyerhaeuser river, is provided for in a bill reported General Contractors There was a great pressure to bear in syndicate, said "There is nothing healthy than Cuba with her hot climate by Senator Smith of Michigan. The early days to sell at $1.25 an acre, the to it. I know nothing of any such and fruit farms. Minnesota for bill makes effective the treaty negotiated minimum price fixed by congress. us all the time, first, last and between deal." with Canada in 1908 by a Settlers were wanted and the arguments times Stillwater. Gazette. commission of which Professor David Internationa Falls, in favor of selling were strong. Minnesota. Over 100,000 people have died in Star Jordan was the chairman. Under Governer Ramsey and the statesmen China during the past few weeks with the terms of the treaty the taking BE CAREFULL BOYS. of his day saw further ahead than the Bourbonic plague and famine. Last of white fish and lake trout less than mere demands of the moment. But What might have been a fatal accident Friday 5,000 bodies were cremated, two pounds in weight is prohibited even they planned better than they occurred on Main street yesterday the ground being frozen too hard for and the minimum length of yellow knew. Governor Ramsey expressed when a number of boys jumped on burial. The coffins were placed side pike is 13 inches. Nets for commercial the opinion in his message to the a passing sleigh. But one boy slipped by side for a distance of over half a fishing are prohibited in Rainy legislature in 1861 that in fifty years NEW: and fell and his leg caught under the mile. lake or Lake of the Woods, within the school fund might be as great as runner and dragged him quite a distance half a mile of the mouth of any stream $7,000,000.. It is now fifty years and in the snow. Fortunately the The city of Winnipeg has raised emptying therein. The manner of construction CHINESE LAUNDRY the fund is three times the sum he runner did not run over his leg or the of pound nets is prescribed the sum of $2,500,000, toward a fund set. We are looking forward, according team knock his brains out by crashing and trap nets are prohibited. No gill of $5,000,000, toward an International to the estimate of State Auditor him against the sidewalk or some Exposition in 1914. This will net of less than five-inch mesh is to be Iverson given in an address before the other obstacle. As it happened we are be the first exposition of this kind set for white fish or lake trout and no Minnesota State Historical society, to glad to be able to say that he got less than a four-inch mesh for other held in Canada heretofore she has a permanent school fund of $200,000,000 off with a few bruises. Say, boys, we been content with exhibiting her industries species. An annual closed season in 1961. Who can say that the wish you could get along without All kinds of work promptly attended to and well done. Open from Oct. 16 to Nov. 30 is prescrbed. in other countries wealth of iron ore on school lands finding amusement in that dangerous may not make the fund three times MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1911 way, we all feel bad when any of you what we expected? Whatever the How in the world are we going to get hurt. I. P. & I. CO. total may be, and it will be very large take care of the hundreds of working posterity will be indebted for it to men and their families who are already $10,000 BERTH FOR TAWNEY. those statesmen who planned wisely beginning to flock here to build International Photo & Illustrating Co. Representative James A. Tawney, in the beginning.—Pioneer Press.. the big sawmill and enlarge the paper SING LEE, Prop. mill to twice its present size? All the of Minnesota and Senator Carter of Next door to Sullivan's barber shop. DRAIN, RATHER THAN Montana are destined to drop into hotels and stopping places are now fill- Local Views, Home Portraiture, Flashlights, View work BUY MORE LAND and Kodak Finishing. CLYDE WEST'S A. A. LEE It is not an uncommon thing for a J. CARTER & SON land owner to fight a drainage assessment, Phone 190 Proprietor on land that has a market value of from $20 to $30 per acre, and at FORT FRANCES, ONT. Cash and Economy Grocery Store almost the same time buy another tract of similar land, at the market price. His desire is to acquire more PRESTON & CO. riillinery at Canadian Prices acres, under the false idea that his prosperity will be denoted by the FORT FRANCES, ONT. situated in the Emerson building one amount of land in his possession. Latest Styles—Latest Trimming He does not realize that one acre of door west of J. C. Infelt's meat market thoroughly drained land may bring High Grade Calabash have got the only full and most complete him a greater income, with half the and Meerschaum Pipes. line of groceries in the City of labor and expense of cultivation, than MISS J. SWEET, Head Trimmer and Manager two acres of the undrained land or Destiny. We have on sale at all times that it could be acquired at one-third the Occident flour, which we all know to one half the cost of the newlybought Take the Ferry English and French Briars acre. The extra land is purchased is the only flour, that is sold with a with the idea that land values guarantee back of it. We also pride "C. B. D," and "B. B. B." will rise. As the real value of land out selves in handling butter that cannot is regulated by its improvements and Makes productiveness, the landowner whose be surpassed by any grade in the pOOOOOOOOClOCiOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOpOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOj only object is to acquire more acres, United States. We also carry a full rather than to improve the land already Lowest Canadian Prices Northern Minnesota Hospital in his possession, is"an "undesir line of confections and cigars and a full able citizen for he expects to be the line of vegetables such as cabbage, gainer",through his neighbor'simprovements International falls, Minnesota potatoes, parsnips, carrots, rutabages, only Minnesota Extension. onions and celery. Remember that Real Estate Transfers. MONEY Clyde West's Cash and Economy Grocery Real estate transfers listed by the Koochiching County Abstract company Store is situated opposite the LOANED of International Falls, Minn. street from O. J. Masters pool room Abraham L. Mealey and wife to and bowling alleys. Goods will be delivered Adam Horsch, lot 6, block 8,1st add. to Ranier w. d., $300. to any part of the city on short Jerome E. Perry to Sarah Olive notice. Bucy, lots 7,11,12,13,14,4th div. of on lands suitable for farming Int. Falls, w. d., $1.00 purposes. We bar and sell Eric Franson and wife to John P. timber lands." Don't Forget the Number Hoagland, lot 8, block 5, 4th div. of 1 Int. Falls, w. d., $1.00. RAIINY RIVER Ella A. Green, widow, to Frank B. R. H. MONAHAN, M. D. ELIZABETH MONAHAN, M. D. Green und int in lot 22, block 17, Phone 168 FARM LAND CO. lot. Falls, w. d., $1.00. MABY C. GHOSTMBY, M. D. Jens J. Opshal and wife toGustaf Office over International State Bank. R. C. rRASER, Manager A. 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