INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. years, even with this increased taxation, grape fruit and other trees look nice, the consolidation of rural schools and International falls Press before our roads can be put in but nothing here compares with Min^ Taft, which is a whole lot, and isn't Mutchings Exploration Company and Border Budget nesota in the spring time. One gets shape to give all the state sufficient it reasonable to suppose that these a little tired of the palms and other good wagon roads to meet the needs matters keep him so busy that he Offic ial City Paper of International tropical growths after a while. I tell of the several communities. For instance, hasn't time to wrestle with the railroads Falls, Minnesota a county now gets $3,000 from you you have scenery about Walker which operate in Minnesota as Diamond Drilling that beats anything in Florida for the state, with which the commissioners though they owned the state with INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS all around beauty. In place of palms Churn Drilling of that county can, by using an the reapportionment question, which PUBLISHING COMPANY you have grass with its vivid greenness, equal amount of county funds, build he once declared he'd settle with an Contract Morl^ elms and oaks with their luxuriant GEORGE P. WATSON. Editor and Manager. six miles of road. One thousand dollars extra session of the legislature with verdure that in my opinion per mile will only build a fair a state wide primary and other matters SUBSCRIPTION 81.50 A YEAR makes Florida growths look tame. dirt road, but at this estimate that which political foes desiring to Office: 602 Torrey Bldg. DULUTH, MINN. There are views back of my home county could only construct with the annoy a good but busy man instist on Entered as Second Class Matter June 23. that in June and July would make state fund six miles of road. What thrusting upon his attention. Some [909. at the post office at International Falls, the native Floridan turn green with Minnesota, under the Act of Contcress of does this amount to in counties that people seems to think that because March 3. 1879. envy." need hunderds of miles of road? Now, our governor has operated under two by using the Elwell law, instead of men's names he can do two men's TIIURSDAY, APRIL, 18 six miles of road, you can build sixty work. They should know better.— INFELT INSTALLS COLD STORAGE S O E miles of road and not increase Hutchinson Leader. J. C. Infelt has just completed his LA ZENDA Clay county farmers produced over state taxation in any amount. It does compressed air and amonia refrigerator $2,000,000 of potatoes last year. seem as if it is the part of good sense by which ice cold air is pumped ROOSEVELT'S PLATFORM. to build sixty miles of road this year into his cold storage on much the Our aim is to secure the real and Domestic and have it to use for the coming ten same principle that hot air is forced We are in receipt of a beautiful not the nominal rule of the people. years than to build six miles each succeeding into our dwellings. LA TRINTA high grade booklet illustrating the industries We propose to do away with whatever year and the rest of the time An up-to-date roller carrying equipment and attractions of Cass Lake in our government tends to sesure flounder through the mud, especially for the transfer of meats from presumedly prepared by N. M. Koil, privilege. when this can be done by the use his wagons to the storage does Havana the leading citizen of that progressive We believe in securing for the people of funds we already have. away with the back-breaking carrying city. the direct election of United States "All of the territory embraced in AT ALL DEALERS task. He is now' ready to do a successful senators. the Northern Minnesota Development wholesale as well as retail We believe in securing for the people The city police department are not association will be greatly enhanced meat and grocery business and will the right of nominating candidates letting anything pass through their in value by the building of the proposed have a large and assorted stock to for office, from the president down, by fingers these days along the line of system of roads. These roads select from. direct primaries. lawbreakers. As sure as a "bad man" affect almost directly more than 20,000,000 We belive in securing for the people strikes town he is either instructed to acres of fine farm lands: and J. C. ANDRE WM. ANDRE MAY BUILD THROUGH. the exercise of a real and not move on or is taken to the bastile to placing the enhanced value at the ridiculously Orders in force until cancelled. merely a nominal control over their await trial, or for the arrival of officers Littlefork Times: Last week the low estimate of 50 cents representatives in office. INTERNATIONAL from other counties or states. rumor that the Backus interests had per acre, this road system will increase Our object is to give the people purchased the Deer River railway was the valuation of Minnesota control and to have the people exercise afloat. Since then we have been reliably The cash payments made to the state lands more than $10,000,000, this control in the spirit of the informed that C. S. Giles, resident EMPLOYMENT Todd county farmers last year for while the value of the roads as fire broadest sympathy and broadest desire engineer of the present construction, their milk they delivered to the breaks can scarcely be estimated. If to secure social and industrial is looking over the fifteen miles OFFICE creameries exceeded the sum of nothing unforseen happens, a system justice for every man and woman. necessary to a connection with the $500,000, while the amount they i*eceived of good roads known as state rural We stand for the adequate control Deer River line. The local office of WE FURINISh YOU HELP FREE OF CHARGE for the potatoes they sold was highways will cover the state of Minnesota of all big business and especially of the railway people here will not confirm over $200,000. like a spider's web. Along all monopoilstic big business where Woodsmen, Railroad Laborers, Dock Laborers the above, but it is not to be expected such roads the daily mail carrier will it proves unwise or impossible to that information of this nature whistle beside which the telephone and Laborers of all Descriptins. The most appaling disaster of the break down the monopoly. will be given out except by those wires will hum down which the well sea occurred last Sunday night when Second Avenue INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. Prosperity can only permanently high in authority in the Backus syndicate. ladened farm wagon will roll to the the new $8,000,000 steamship Titanic come to this country on a basis of best markets and over which the went down by colliding with an honesty and of fair treatment farmer will carry his family to the iceberg off the New Foundland coast. TO INSIST ON SALE. door of the church and his children Acording to the latest reports almost ON TO INTERNATIONAL FALLS. to the steps of the school house.' 1:550 lives, $5,000,000 worth of diamonds St. Paul, April 13.—Returning from and :$,424 oags of mail were Duluth Herald: We are reminded the northern part of the state where by the ever active and ever vigilant he has been for sevei'al days, Walter lost in the wreck of the new passenger POTATOES BEAT ORANGE CROP. I N E Secretary McKenzie that the regular J. Smith, state treasurer, this morning steamer. meeting of the Northern Minnesota The editor of the Elk River Star said that at an early meeting Development association will be held News is sojourning in sunny Florida of the state board of investment, he We'd like to see the business man in International Falls June 20 and 21. this winter, and many of the things would insist that Minnesota sell the Wholesale and Retail Meats and Groceries who is able to keep up with the prosperity Says Mr. McKenzie: "This meeting he is noticing down there are of interest $2,145,000 bonds which it holds and our city is enjoying these will be strictly a business meeting to to Minnesota people, especially bring the money home for internal days. Mr. Backus and his associates talk over plans for the betterment of so, after reading the glaring literature improvements. have certainly made good in the establishment our section and to arrange with the of the wonders that are performed "I have investigated the matter," of industries and the employment several committees their line of work. on southern soil. Speaking Mr. Smith said, "have received quotations of labor. We know of no We are now seeing the good of cooperation of fruit lands in Florida the writer from eastern money brokers and other city of the size of ours that is and continued boosting in says: I find that from a financial standpoint enjoying a payroll of $75,000 per the sooner we rid ourselves of these the large amount of advertising our "Fruit culture, however, is vei«y month and a good prospect of a still bonds the better. courties ave getting, and already the similar to potato growing in Minnesota, have just installed the most modern larger one. 1 a I E "We bought them for $1,865,000 and work we have done is bearing fruit. some of the orchards look flourishing, Amonia Refrigerator Plant and Cold It behooves us, however, to redouble while others right alongside can sell them for $1,850,000. There are There is no need of importing theatre look as though they were going to school districts, municipalities, drainage our efforts for Minnesota, and keep Storage Warehouse with capacity enough troops to this city when our local seed. The most flourishing ones are districts and road builders that the good work up." Dramatic club can put on as difficult to take care of Meats and Groceries in are paying 5 per cent. We could bring Well said, and truly. those whose owners are right on the a play as "The Matchmaker" as perfectly It is none too soon to be making ground and live there the year that money home and lend it at 4 per car lots, because we are in a position to as it did last week, for the benefit plans for attending this meeting, and around. The non-resident rarely gets cent almost immediately. In fact, of the public library. We only seeing to it that it is as lively and much return from his investment, there are applications in now for between buy cheap. We can sell cheap and will regret that the audiences were not and believe me, any man who invests $400,000 and $500,000." representative and inspiring as the larger. The reserved seat idea does give are customers the benefit of our ad­ meetings that have preceded it. Be- in fruit orchards with expectations not take well in our city. A popular CALL FOR CONVENTION. sides the pleasure of co-operating in of reaping a competency without bef-Vn's vantages. price for all is what "takes,' especially splendid work, the results ofjing on the ground to personally suwhich Chairman E. E. Smith and Secretary for a public benefit. are becoming so apparent, the erintend it, will be disappointed in J. A. O. Preus of the republican trip will offer to many an opportunity the result, and be pretty sure to go state central committee have issued Away up here in northern Minne section of Minnesota, the hole. And further, the man ng. the call for the republican state delegate 0 see a new sot the people are wondering what an(j interesting and important who comes down here to make a business convention. The call specifies & very the' Vnters in St. Paul are going to of fruit growing without practical that the convention shall meet in the one do" if' the1 cty elections on May 7th. Qn international Falls! experience and knowledge, will armory at Minneapolis at noon on "Herbert P. Keller, the present mayStands.1 !:kewise be disappointed. It is a business Everybody is invited to inspect our plant. May 16. It also provides that district for good government and RURAL HIGHWAYS by itself, and more complicated conventions shall be held on May the. p-efelf1''- tftJ rule, while Bremer than the average outsider suspects. 15, although that order is not considered J. C. INFELT Rand's "VV- a in he it or Still there is much money in the growing binding on districts in which CONTEMPLATED %'f :thi^jp^v pfficerelv hopes that the of oranges and grape fruit, as there is a regularly chosen congressional vbt'el'sj of ^crr c^iVital city will set the has been demonstrated by those making committee. The only disti'ict '£xhnif)'f$"o f' £o$l"c'overnment and re"tur'n,' International Falls, Minn. Telephone No. 11 a business of it. I believe, though, convention provided for in the call is 'Mr!' "Kell^PtJ "office. Continued troin pape I that the average of those engaged in that of the fourth district and Geo. t. ii o} Oc'.io scientific farming in Minnesota who in mind the need of protecting this F. Dix is named to call that convention Louisiana, the most rock-ribbed succeed will more than balance those vast wealth to the state. to order at noon on May 15 at democratic southland, "I have named a large number of of the fruit grower in this part of Federation hall in St. Paul. It's Quality That Makes ^h^eatens to go republican this fall. Florida. Another thing that we notice towns through which the proposed The apportionment of delegates by Mi3ifoiVri?:11n°e''^nfj'ious strang®L'oiTC a good deal about in glowing advertisements state rural higways shall run. This congressional districts gives the ''V CT^-'McClkc-heo'i a is truck farming. A is done for the purpose of showing the eighth 135, as follows: JUwjsH 3 toon Mirk' ago, "fiiay^lhave comfcy truck farm has to have special advantages. readers of your paper who own lands Aitkin, 9 Anoka, 10 Carlton, 10 The soil has to be just right, Wn^a^0'"[-i)£ and those who desire to purchase Cook, 6 Isanti, 9 Itasca, 11 Kanabec, 0WJ JOTThifr# tlie^M'Po^ W^fhvspap- and I have seen no truck farms of homes in this fertile land belt where 8 Koochiching, 8 Lake, 7 Mille more than two or three acres. It is they may be able to get iands near Lacs, 8 Pine, 10 St. Louis, 39. true, however, that they have remarkable good substantial highways. Total delegates, 1,106. Necessary yields and' some get big results. racy, if th^c-Veeds.-m "How many miles Qf road and what to control, 554. its ettGl'lM to pul sugai un Celery, lettucej cabbagbs^ etc., are is the probable cost of the same in the ERICSBURG. grown, here very successfully. systems of roads you refer to?" Several Ericsburg men acquired "Speaking of vejg&tation, Florida "There are about 1,850 miles of hasn't anything on Minnesota in that real estate at the state land sale last roads and the estimate for these roads respect. Of course there is considerable week. Among them were Gust Holm, wjjl probably be $2,250,600. This tropical vegetation of one kind Peter Matheson, Gust Franson, Chas. sounds like a vast sum, lut under the I tion in Orange county, Calif., went to or another, and as a novelty the Johnson and Martin Matheson. About Elwell law this amount of money is San mofre, San Diego county, Calif., oalms, cedars, pine, like oaks, orange, the same time others acquired land available for the buildng of all of jjwh re they were met by a large body from private parties, namely, Arthur these roads this summer and without Bergand, Fred Lindeman. Gust Holm lgof armed depflQ^^c'(in^lSbl§^'aftd"T§Eti1-' i.rtyn!Wdf ease in the state taxation. zens, who cofWpejpgdbrfctedBi ito: kneel purchsaed the Grant Watt place. '&nd, Wh$t is more, the amount now PRESTON &CO. and kiss the American flag. They Grant Watt and family left Friday raised neaeh year and distributed to evening for the Dalles, Oregon, where I were then divided .stjuacjs^of five ^hf^ffejneijt, counties in the state for Famous. The}- are made in St. Paul. Backed by forty-two li under command ^of deputies, ?and a they will make their home in the future. Jujl4,ingf of roads, can build all these Ijline of march ^asJf6'rmed feaclcW the rowels, ami leave more than $4,500,000 years of piano experience. If, with our knowledge and exper­ Genuine Calabash Pipes all county line arfd 'thVrnerl 4ompeiled' 'to Theodore Enke and his two boys 'forth4 building of roads elsewhere in from Zul'uland, South Africa ience, we are conscientious in what we say, this knowledge and sing "The Stat* -'•Sp*righ3&« BkmserJ* have arrived from Staples and are tfte°&fat& put it in another "When the county dine, wa&p^%a^h§d! busy getting ready for the rest of toa-$fyr all. that our commit- 1912 Designs experience is worth something to you in your selection of a the family. They will reside on their •they were sta?£e| n?rth on,,t^§ r^i Bjifts only about one- piano. Then, too, we can save you mone}^. I'j road track with the admonition never farm west of town this summer. Also G. B. D. long briars. bthfe°SfefH?#ilhat be raised to return to San Diego cQunty. IT Miss Minnie Matheson and Lyman under this law, leaving two-thirds of B. B. B. ownraake every county would take similar steps Matheson were at home over Sunday. the entire fund untouched. with Tajl of anarchistic dispositions A. B. Peterson visited his family "If the so-called Dunn amendment All English and Canadian muraoj&^Q^ejjp&il and|un^es|A over Sunday. sTalAc^ at tie jjkflefeetion—and glorious coCn^ryAjf OUT! wemra eeasre. Several of our Ray neighbors attended I believe and siifcerefjr Rofe it may— brands tobacco. the Easter ball here the night this will increase the funds if the legfl^tjigp-ysf^d^ifles, JAMES A. TERRY of the 13th. Some of our ejqcfcftiigfes 300 per cent. That The Ice in the Rat Root is breaking give Gov. Eberhart credit for the good is, the fund will be if the full rate is PRESTON a CO. up and we expect to see the river .things in his record which is neither levied, just four times as large as it In The Marvin Music Store just''' 5S nAiwZ'. ITfif. "MAaT haw**** Inw clear of ice after one or two more FORT PRANCES, ONT. like the Elwell law, we must wait for sunshiny days. good roads, good crops, fine weather, •Bf Ml