ffi°irnT*yT y^i s$5*Wv :^s&~ 4-y±?Mr v+v^'^ COMMISSIONERS winter because of the demand for the looked with interest at the grains. proved as a state rural highway under cheaper lumber, occasiond by the operation There they know nothing but corn,oats the provisions of the Elwell law, of new box factories. and wheat. Buckwheat, barley, flax the same being chapter 254, general PBOCEEDINtS INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNESOTA A timber contractor of the North and the like aroused their interest and laws of 1911 to be known as state Wisconsin woods, in St. Paul today, several teachers asked me for samples rural highway No. 6, described as follows: believes that more men will be employed of the grain." 1 HAS in the camps than for five Beginning on the section line between OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COM. years. Early indications promise a LUMBER INDUSTRY GROWS. LOCATION, POWER, RAW MATERIAL sections 34 and 33, township MISSIONERS, KOOCHICHING favorable winter and if heavy snow 71, range 24, thence running on the Duluth, Oct. 21.—Contrary to general COUNTY. comes the log drives on the Wisconsin 16th line through section 33, thence opinion, the lumber industry has These combined guarantee a populous ccnter of activity. and Chippewa rivers will be enormous in a southwesterly course to range grown rather than diminished in Minnesota (Official.) next spring. line between townships 70, range 24 in the last ten years. It has PRESENT OUTPUT OF MILLS: and range 25. The motion was seconded been generally supposed that the industry The board of county commissioners, DEATH OF SQUAW, MYSTERY. by Commissioner McDonald News Print Paper 220 tons per day has been declining for years Koochiching county, Minnesota, met and carried by unanimous vote. Ground Wood Pulp 200 tons per day and that soon lumbering in this part Baudette Region: Considerable in their office in the court house at Moved by Commissioner McDonald, of the world will be merely a matter Sulphite Pulp 110 tons per daySaw International Falls, Minnesota, on mystery surrounds the death of a seconded by Commissioner Ulvedahl, of history. It may be that it will squaw, who either fell off or was Mill 100,000,000 ft. annually Wednesday, Sept. 25th, 1912, at 9:30 that petition for a county road in soon pass, but according to James P. thrown off the International bridge a. m. A permanent pay roll of over $75,000 per month townships 65 and 66, range 26, be McDonald, secretary and manager of between Baudette and Rainy River Roll call: Present, Commissioners Consider these (acts, and we feel sure you granted and final order drawn for the Mullery-McDonald Lumber company, Saturday night. The squaw, who Durrin, Chute, Ulvedahl and McDonald the same. Motion carried, will agree with us that International Falls at present it is carried on on went by the name of "Square Face," absent, Commissioner Reed. Moved by Commissioner Chute, a larger scale in the Duluth district is destined to become one of the most important was one of a party of five or six Moved by Commissioner Chute, seconded by Commissioner Ulvedahl, than it was ten years ago. Indians who left Baudette about manufacturing centers of the North seconded by Commissioner McDonald, that application of Gust Franson for "Sawing at the head of the lakes eleven o'clock on the night of the that the minutes of the previous West. liquor license be granted. Motion carried. has fallen off," says Mr. McDonald, tragedy. What actually happened on meeting be approved as read. Motion "but in the Duluth district, as a the bridge will probably n'ever be carried. Moved by Commissioner McDonald, whole, it has developed. Of course Full particulars will be cheerfully furnished by Moved by Commissioner McDonald, known, as every member of the party seconded by Commissioner Chute, logging has had to keep pace with was drunk. C. B. KINNEY seconded by Commissioner Ulvedahl, that application of James Young for the sawing, for we import next to that the depository bond of the First When near the Canadian shore the liquor license be granted. Motion nothing for manufacturing here. State bank of Big Falls with Frank squaw and a half breed by the name carried. There is in Duluth about 30 per cent Sales Manager P. Sheldon, Arthur G. Wedge, Ross of Sutherland either fell off or were Commissioner Chute offered the following less sawing than there was ten years, thrown off the bridge to the water Slack, Geo. T. Robinson and A. E. resolution and moved its adop. International Falls, Minnesota ago, and at the head of the lakes Peterson as sureties in the sum of about thirty feet below. Both could tion: about 50 per cent less, for there is $30,000, be approved. Motion carried. swim, but the woman sank after going Resolved, That the following road no sawing done in Superior at all, a few feet. Sutherland reached On motion the board adjourned until be and the same is hereby designated any more. But the inland towns, shore and was arrested the following 1:30 p. m. as a state road: Commencing on Virginia and Tower, are sawing on morning. He stated that he was the bank of the Rainy river at the such a scale as to far more than make Board re-convened at 1:30 p. m. carrying the woman when they fell meander corner of sections- 27 and up for the drop at the head of the Moved by Commissioner McDonald, from the bridge. He was later released 28, thence running south between sections lakes. I would not venture an opinion seconded by Commissioner Ulvedahl, but the Canadian authorities Lnger-Nord Realty 33 and 34, township 160, range on what the increase for the district that Commissioner Durrin be authorized will thoroughly investigate the tragedy. 27, continuing south on section line is but it is considerable. There to let contract for construction between sections 3 and 4, 9 and 10, is a great deal more timber sawed in of the road running south from the Where the Indians secured the liqor 15 and 16, 21 and 22, 27 and 28, 33 the district than there was ten years northeast corner of section 29, township in Baudette is a mystery. and 34, township 159, range 27, thence ago, and his will continue for quite Co.— 151, range 27, to the Itasca The saloon-keepers have been very south to intersect the Black river road a number of years yet. Of course the county line, same not to exceed $300. careful about selling liquor to persons at the northeast corner of section logging operations follow suit, and it 28, Motion carried. of Indian blood. It is generally township 158, range 27. will be some time before the lumberjack Commissioner Chute offered the believed that they got it either from Offers INTERNATIONAL FALLS and FORT The motion was seconded by Commissioner will disappear. We will still following resolution and moved its someone who is peddling whiskey to McDonald and carried by hear the rasp of his hobnailed boots adoption: Indians, or that they had some white FRANCES lots at reasonale prices. on the cement sidewalks spring and unanimous vote. Resolved, That we, the board of man get it for them. Among the Moved by Commissioner Chute, seconded fall, and still hear his joyful whoops county commissioners of Koochiching party of Indians was "Minnie," a at those seasons of the year for some by Commissioner Ulvedahl, county in regular session convened, notorious squaw, who appears to be Terms $10 Down and $5 Per Month that the plat of Evergreen cemetery time to come." do hereby ratify and approve the able to get liquor whenever she wants be approved. Motion carried. designation of a certain highway it—and she generally wants it. LUMBER PRICE INCREASES. Moved by Commissioner Chute, hereinafter described to be built and Minnie has several white friends and seconded by Commissioner Ulvedahl, improved as a state rural highway St. Paul, Oct. 23.—Through the advance the conviction is growing that she We own and control 20,000 acres that the plat of Hoyt's second addition under the provisions of the Elwell in lumber prices and the general may have induced one of them to to Gemmell be approved. Motion of choice well located unimprov­ law, the same being chapter 254, general increase in demand, it is estimated purchase the liquor. carried. that the railroads of the Northwest laws of 1911, to be known as It is a fact that she can always get ed farm lands for sale at from (To be continued.) state rural highway No. 5, described will report an increase in aggregate the firewater at either Baudette or $5.00 to $10.00 per acre. as follows: traffic in rough and finished timber Rainy River, and as a result of this TO CONSIDER ROAD PROBLEMS. Route No. 1—Beginning at a point of 150,000,000 feet over last year. tragedy a determined efford will be St. Paul, Oct. 23.—The state highway on the section line btween sections The season's remarkable movement made to discover the parties who I a commission will meet October 29 9 and 10, 80 rods south of section in crops, general merchandise and have supplied it to her. to consider several important road manufactured products, in all lines of corner of sections 9 •and 10, 3 and 4, Another result of the tragedy is matters, among them being the building running east on the sixteenth line of which records have already been established an order prohibiting Minnie from of main trunk roads in Northern north half of section 10, one mile or are predicted, is duplicated Baudette in the future. For Sale Minnesota, and the completion of concrete by the pending ttmDer shipments. thence south on section line between The dead squaw was about thirty roads now being built in Winona The promised increase is attributed sections 10 and 11, 14 and 15 to years of age and leaves four children. county. These are the first concrete ,directly to the price advance which post on east side of section 15, thence Her husband left her some time ago. CAN BE BOUGHT ON EASY TERMS roads in Northwestern states. Northwest lumbermen say is but another running east on line threequarters She lived in the Indian colony at the The commission also expects to receive phase of country-wide prosperity of a mile, thence south Canadian end of the bridge, where petitions for highways provided conditions one half mile on sixteenth line it is said there have been many for by Elwell law, passed at the last Rail carriers supplying the large of the SE of section 14, thence brawls and drunken celebrations during V\ session of the legislature. One of mills of the Cloquet Lumber company east on section line between sections the past summer. these relates to the proposed road at Cloquet, Minn., report an influx of SUBSCRIBE NOW 23 and 14, thence south one mile between from Duluth to St. Vincent, the building advance orders for Minnesota timber sections 23 and 24, thence east MONEY TO LOAN. of which must be concurred in by that cannot possibly be filled during one mile between sections 24 and 25. all the counties through which it passes. the present season Mills throughout StfBi ex*.?. Route No. 2—Beginning at a point "On account of the strong demand $ 1.50 a year. St. Louis and Itasca county have the north are operating night and day On the section line between sections for money in other towns the Northwestern already acted favorably. and contracts have been placed for 10 and 11, eighty rods south of section Building Association of Fergus practically the entire cut of 1913. corner between sections 10 and Falls will be able to place only $10,000 PLANS A STATE GEOGRAPHY. The advance in price is analyzed 11, 2 and 3 to a road on state ditch more in International Falls this in the report of the manager of the To prepare and publish a new geography or. section line between sections 2 season. Anyone who contemplates of Minnesota for the public West Coast Lumber Manufacturers' and 3, about 240 rods, all of both making a loan should apply at once. SMOKE schools here and in other states is association, who estimates that the Mutes being in township 68, range The Association has now loaned practically LA ZENDA the plan of state Immigration Officer average increase in mill prices on all 25. The motion was seconded by $50,000 in International Falls. products in the Pacific Northwest Commissioner Ulvedahl and carried Maxfield. from December, 1911, to September 1, unanimous vote. "Ie believe," said Mr. Maxfield, hy Domestic We are now offering for sale 187 "that the children in the Minnesota 1912, was $3.92. Commissioner Chute offered the lets in the Carson-Lupie adition, price public schools should be taught to A similar situation exists in Northern following resolution and moved its LA TRINCA $155.00 per lot, $10.00 down, $5.00 per Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. adoption: know their own state. This would be month. 5 minutes walk from postoffice. better than teaching so much geography Mills that have been idle for Resolved, That we, the board of Save rent, have a garden, of Egypt, Assyria and other two years in the North Wisconsin valley county commissioners of Koochiching Havana chickens etc., thereby reduce the cost are again in operation and will county, in regular session convened countries the children probably never of living. finish a profitable season's cut. More do hereby ratify and approve the designation will see. I was surprised at the Illinois AT ALL DEALERS Enger-Nord Realty Co. state fair to see the number of jack pine and Norway of medium of a crtain highway, hereinafter litis Block teachers who came to our booth and grades will be cut during the present described, to be built and im­ We are offering our fancy grade New York Apples, direct from orchards, at $3.25 per barrel holding three bushels. Our stock consists of Baldwins. Kings, Greenings, Northern Spys, New York Reds, but etc. We are packing nothing the choice grades, and will ship in car lots to Minneapolis, Minn,, freight paid. Order the number of barrels you want from this point. Your local freight rate will be small. Cash must be sent With order. We furnish A-1 Bank reference. Send all orders to BUFFALO, N. Y. Order now before cold weather sets in. ,n-t 1 4 .vvs v: 'j. jjs' T" •r.