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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-04-07

&
81 rhecourt house janitor, Ohm 9. Erick-
sou has had one Of his eyes IN sling
during the past week. The cause was
az encounter With tamarack tie, and
not the result of any discussion with
any OF the county officers. IS s.S ..
s While in Duluth the writer was In
formed that crews would be put to. work
fitting up tho Booth boats for the sea-
sons business April LIST, and that the
boats would start to run about the Goth.
The comany has not purchased new
boat for the north shore trade but ex-
poets to do 20 before tho middle of the
season. The patrons o: the Booth line
have always been we'll treated and will
be glad to learn that there is some cor
tainty that the company is going to have
better Accommodations. The only COM
plant that We have ever heard about the
Dixon was the lack of sufficient accou.o-
dationa, with this fault remedied there
will be no complaints.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-04-07
Naval CadetShip.

A competitive examination of candi-
dates for admission to the Naval Acade-
my will be held at the Courthouse, IN
Brainerd, Minnesotx, on Friday, April
IL 1900, commencing at 10 O'Clock A. NJ,
under the following conditions:
Candidates must be actual, bona fide
residents of the Sixth Congressional
District Of Minnesota for at least two
years immediately preceding the date
OF this examination. -. III.
The minimum age must be fifteen
years, aid tho maximum age twenty
years. IL. ~, - -. ~
Candidates must, at the time OF ex-
animal ton, be physically sound, veil
formed and OF robust constitution.
Candidates will DO examined in read
ing wiring, spelling. arithmetic, geogra.
| ply, English grammar. United States
history, worlds history, algebra and
plane geometry. 81: sz.
| The Young man receiving the highest
average in this examination will be no.
minated a. cadet, and the one receiving
the next highest average will be nomin.
ated as alternate.
TIE examination Of candidates for ad.
mission to the Naval Academy will take
Irlaoa at the Academy on September l
4 1900 Z.
A pamphlet Of Regulations governing
the admission OF candidates into The
1 Nayal cademy rs Naval Cadets, will bt
i mailed Immediately upon application K
! lion. Page Morris, NJ g., Washington
/ DC.
With very kind regards. Yours truly,
/ PAGE MORRIS.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-04-07
ROWLAND LOCALS.

Mrs. jackson and family visited at
Big Bay on Tuesday.
The town board voted one days poll
tax for the ensuing year.
Christ Sand left on Sunday on his
return trip to his home in Minneapolis.
E. Eliasen took trip into the interior
on Monday to visit his traps along the
McF arland trail.
Alex Lagard passed through on Thurs
day with Mailcarrier Plante on his round
trip to Grand Marais.
A. s. Carlson bobbed up from the
camp o1 Sunday as serenely and smiling
az ever, having entirely recovered from
his recent accident.
There were $50 signatures of males OF
81 years of age to the petitions sent to
the P. O. Department from tho Rowland
and Grand Portage Offices.
IS letters and packages were registered
by Postmaster Brunes during the quarter
ending March 31ts, the best record made
slnce the establishment of the Office.
A committee of two supervisors tramp.
ed some 20 miles on Saturday, inst Getting
some Of the roads and bridges OF the
town, and posting guide-boards at road
functions.
John Bender, after a six-mohths 30.
journ here, left on Monday for the state
Of Washington. He was accompanied
by Billy Stewart who will return to his
home near st. Cloud.
Among those who have wendell their
way westward the past week may b
mentioned WILDER N. Langdon on Sun.
day, and Messrs. Merrick, Carlson snd
G. Gustafson on Monday.
The Rowland office received its sup.
plies of NJ. .. B. blanks, books, etc. on
the 3rd inst, and began transacting bus.
moss tho sane day. The first money
order was issued to n. J. Bray, and
drawn upon the Cushman, Mimi, Office,
It will be kept as a souveir.
Joe Fisher began tho twice-a-week
mail service on Monday, the End, re.
turning next day with about 80 lbs. oil
mail matter. which be pscked the entire
distance from Grand Marais, and making
excellent time considering the condition
of the trail at this time of the year.
The petition to the postal department
asking for BITTER mail service for this
busting settlement with nearly q hun.
dred signatures was mailed to the de.
artment Jan. 18th last, and great credit
is due the department for promptpesa
in acting as we'll as favorable action upon
! the same. As result two mails pei
week during the winter "a we'll as during
the summer season will be provided in
future, supplying both the Hovland an6
Grand Portage Offices.
Mail Carrier Plante passed through
on his last trip with his dog train fol
this season on Friday, tina Both of March
He reported the roads bare of snow mos
of the way and the trip very disagreed
bio one, az Re was heavily loaded. II,
brought Gown three mail sacks. one o
which was entirely filled with horse col
lor pads for the Fuller Lumber Co. II,
looks for q team Of horses and a steam
engine through the mail next.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-04-07

WANTS.
4 Money to patent good ideas may BE
secured by onr aid, address THE PA.
TENT RECORD. Baltimore, Ma.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-04-07


there in = row boat Friday morning.
LATER.-Dr. Jones returned this morn
ing and reports Mrs. Peterson. 40 doing
we'll. -
Mail Carrier Silas King came in this
week in q cart which had seen several
years Of hard service before he got it.
He was riding on ono wheel when he
got here and says that az soon rs the
season closes he 10 going east to join one
Of the circuses a. trick rider as he thinks
that his experience this winter qualities
him for such Z. position.
The following were registered at the
hotel during tho week: Monday-Geo
Aur1nRer, Will Stewart, VIM. Covey, O
Ropp. Jno. Bender, Chris. Sands, Chas
Gustafson Of Big Bay, F. n. Smith o.
Lutsen and Joe. Fisher Of Grand Portage
Tuesday-Peter johnson Of Big Bay
Wednesday-John Smith, Chris. Swan
etrom Of Big bay. Friday-M Juel o.
Big Bay. F.
There was q special term Of the Pro
bate Court held last Wednesday a
which @. a. Carhart wss appointed ad
minlstrator Of the estate Of John E
Gnstafeon, deceased, late Of Rowland
Ihsrs we're also . number Of o.he
matters bsfore The Court which were at
tsndsd 70. There, e considerable bus
irass coming before the Probate Cour
"a this county this year.
We Wish to call our readers astentiol
tosthe advertisement Of Hchrsiner Bros
& Moutton OF Two Harhors which ar
{ pears for the first time in this Issue
The fra, is composed of three men VII
D thoroughly understand the. business i
u which they are engaged, and they clair
that they can save Cook county peopl
7 money on Duluth prices. Give them
sriAl order. tsz.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23
LIBERTY never DIES.

The Kingdom of Hungary writhes in
the loosing grasp of Austria; the jails
of Poland are filed once more with pa.
triotic martyrs rising in resistance to
the rule Of Russia; the people of Ireland
decimated by emigration, famine and
all the hell-born devices of alien rule,
are standing in united resistance to En-
glish rule in Ireland. The dark Egyp-
tain rises in revolt against the might Of
an enslaving empire; the starving Hin
doc examines the imperial chain, and
hopes for another file or death grapple
with the enslaver. Dominion founded
on injustice and perpetuated by mill
tary violence is never absolutely secure.
So will it be with Mr. McKinley's g
experiment in the Philippines. Through
''our island possessions were in our
possession (Which they are not); though
the Philippine government were literal
ly annihilated; though every cabin
were in flames; though every field were
laid waste, and though every town and
village were converted into sepulchres
and wildernesses, Mr.. McKinley's title
to the islands would be disputed by
generations Of men that are yet unborn.
North Western Catholic.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23

A petition signed by large number
of Hollanders in Douglas and Charles
Mix counties, was recently sent South
Dakotas Representatives Gamble and
Burke, urging them to use their in
fuence in congress in favor OF the
Boer Republic in its struggle for inde-
pendence. If the Hollanders in this
state or any other state are expecting
anything from this congress inconist-
ent with the Mckinley imperial policy,
they are barking up the wrong tree.
The war against the Bores and the wal
against the Filipinos are made of the
same cloth. You cannot oppose one
and support the other. If you believe
in self government, you oppose both, of
course. If you are blind partisan and
believe the ing-president can do no
wrong. you are pro-British and hope
for the overthrow of this republic.
and the B ser republic. If you prefer
to cling to Mckinley and Imperialism,
and turn Lincoln's picture to the wall,
destroy our common school histories
and substitute therefore the Queen Of
England and put into the hands of
your children the best authorities on a
form of government.-Ar-
mour Herald.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE.

Imperialism bears to expansion the
same comparison that criminal assault
bears to the sacrament of matrimony;
and conquest bears to rightful govern
ment the same comparison that burglary
attended by the use of deadly weapons
bears to an honest transaction. The
end does not Justify the means; nor can
the pious cant Of about a higher moral
ity nor the false pretense that 'expan-
sion" is for civilization and iberty's
sake, Justify the wholesale violation OF
Gods commandments involved in the
compound felony of conquest. For
God has commanded that "'Thou shalt
not kill"--"Thou shalt not steal"--
and "thou shalt not convet thy neigh
boris goods" The compound felony
of conquest is a continuing curse en-
bracing violations of those and several
other commandments; and no govern.
ment can ever stand justified in doing
thisuntil the decalogue is repealed and
until there is au absolute divorce be-
tween the will of God and the affairs
ofmen. Western Catholic.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23
STATEMENT OF CONSUL MAcRUM,

II had the humiliation as representa-
tive of the American government oi
sitting in my Office in Pretoria and
looking upon envelopes bearing the off
cial seal of the American government
opened and officially sealed with a
sticker notifying me that the contents
had been read by the censor at Durham
I looked up international law, but failed
to find anywhere that the military
power can use it's own discretion as to
forwarding the official dispatches of a
neutral government to it's representa-
tive in besieged country"
The cable service for the transvaal
was absolutely cut off. I filed one cable
in the interest of an American at Pre-
toria, which was refused absolutely by
the Censor at Durham ~
s'The situation was such that I could
not remain in Pretoria, while the
government at home continued to leave
me in the position of British consul
and not an American consul.
when 1 excepted my post as consul
knew nothing Of any secret alliance
between America and Great Britain
and have seen nothing in the regula'
tions Which make the consul Of the
American republic subject to the whims
and caprice of an English military
censor"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23
Bids Of Sewer.

Bids will be received for about $500
feet of sewer from to 10 inches for
the City of Canton S. D. Each bid must
be accompanied by certified check for
$4,000.
Plans and Specifications will be on
file with D. B. Howe city engineer of
Sioux Falls, S. D. ano with the City
Clerk of Canton s. D. Rights reserved
to reject any or all bids.
Bids will be opened Mar. 5, 1900, at
8 o'clock p. m. Address all comunicat-
ions to A. Helgerson, city clerk, Canton
s. Oak.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23
WHAT The INCREASED PRICE Of
OIL MEANS.

The Standard Oil Company, owning
or controlling most Of the terrestrial oil
laboratories, increased the price of oil
some time ago one one cent upon every
gallon drawn from the earth.
In January the price was II cents.
Many stores are now charging 10 cents,
and there are indications that before
the end of the year future increase
will be tackled on.
At present, however, the increase
over the price of two years ago is about
three cents per gallon-the price OF an
old-style poetage stmp. ~. -
That does not sound very formidable.
The poor consumer will continue to
pay it without question. But let us
see what it means to the Standard Oll
Company. ~"
The total yearly output of the com
pany is, approximately, 1.7oo, 900, ooC
gallons of which $50, 900, 900 are sold in
the United States. In raising the price
of oil from 9 to 10 cents. therefore
Mr.. John D. Rockefeller taxed the poor
consumers of this country IS, 1000 a
year. A raise to II cents means So, 500,
900 more, and further raise to II
means total of $25, ,5O0,O 900 year on
Mr.. Rockefellers oil sales in this coun
try alone.
Double this for his foreign sales and
you have the net sum of $51, 900, 1000
year poured by the poor people. of the
world into Mr.. Rockefeller's Golfers
The trust has just declared a quarterly
dividend of 20 per cent-$20, 900, OO(
,, profits for three months; $50, 100000
year.
In the meantime. the worlds great
army of workingmenAthe ground mole:
who dig coal, the hard-handed toilers
in Jumpers and dungarees, men OF my
Rad lines of labor-dig on, sweat on
not realizing that by paying few cents
additional for their meagre nightly
light they are putting into the hands Of
their greatest enemy two-edgeo
sword, to be turned against them al
every opportunity.
But what can the people do?
They can do this: They can vote fol
men pledged to fight oppressive trusts
They can elect as their legislators,
Congressman and Governors men of the
people who will stand by the people
and for the people.
They can take the election Of Senators
into their own hands, and weed out.the
venal servants of trusts.
Above all, they can elect to the Presi-
dency man without Wall Street affili-
ations-one who will gather about him a
Cabinet of honest men.
Let all workingmen in the United
States lay these things to their hearts,
ponder upon them, and, when The time
comes, act upon them.-N. Y. Journal.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23
WHAT ARE REPUBLICAN PR|N-
CIPLES.

Frantic efforts are being made in
some parts of the state to organize re.
publican clubs Calls for meetings for
this purpose invariably refer in. an in
definite way to ''the principles of the
party" Since the organizers Of these
republican clubs do not take the trou'
BILE to state briefly, or otherwise, what
are the principles of the party" here
are some facts which may throw light
on the subject: ~
Chandler and Wolcott are republi
cans because they are for bimetallism
and free silver and against the gold
standard.
Hale is republican and he is bitter
ly opposed to the British alliance
against the South African republics en-
tered into by the administration.
Mccall is republican and he fears
that freedom is not following the flag
like trade.
Spooner is republican and he wants
to create dictatorship for colonists.
Whitelaw Reid is a republican and
says we may acquire territory and rule
the people as we please, not as they
wish or in accordance with our laws.
Hoar is a republican and belives ir
the constitution and Declaration Of In
depence.,
Thurston thinks all who refuse tt
follow the republican party ought to be
shot.
Gage is republican and believes big
banks should receive favors from the
government.
Hanna is republican and says the
government under the British empire
is as good or better that ours.
Grosvenor is against free homes.
Mckinley is for free trade in Porto
Rico, for holding the British in South
Africa and for giving them control of
the canal, and he approves of slavery
and golygamy in certain places
Mason believes in free government ir
South Africa and is against helping the
British bullies. ,..
Cullen introduced bill to pension
deserters the same as faithful soldiers
These are republicans; Loucks. whom
they call anarchist" Trip, claims tc
be free trader; Kyle, dubbed socialist"
by them; Kittredge, dead sure machine
manager; Father Nash, wicked ''insur-
gent;" OLSON. Filipino father-ln-law;
Kirk p, who took the money; Crane
school book agent; Ainsworth who
didn't keep any books; Herreid. who
always does what Kit wants him to do;
the A. L., supported by Standard Oil
Doodle etc, ....
Now what are the republican princi-
pies? Can any body tell?-Sioux Falls
Press.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23
PRAISE SENATOR PET1|GREW.

The following communication has
been sent from Boston to Senator Petit
grew of South Dakota, signed by
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Will
lam Lloyd Garrison, Gemaliel Brad.
ford, Morefeld Story, Erving Winslow,
Winslow Warren and fourteen other
anti-imperialists: i,
''The undersigned, citizens Of Mass
achusetts, cordially invited the cooper
alton of lovers of liberty and their
country in other states, desire to express
to you their thanks and congratulation
for your courage in the cause Of free
speech in the United States senate.
For months the government press
has groaned under the production OF
documents aiming to convince our
people that their opponents in this war
are savages, with no rights which we
are bound to respect; that they are un-
fitted for self-government and entitled
only to such as we may see fit to bestow
on them; and that they must bow in
abject submission before they can even
begin negotiations for peace.
against this you have asked for the
printing, as congressional document
Of translated paper issued by the
leader Of these opponents, setting forth
in temperate and courteous language
the history and basis of the war. This
paper, if it proves nothing else shows
that he is no savage, butan accomplish
ed master Of composition and state
ment and that if his people believe it tc
be true, they are as much justified in
accepting,him as their guide and leader
in resistance to us as were our ancestors
in following Washington in our struggle
with Great Britain.
For doing this you have been stig'
matized by more than one speaker on
open floor of the senate as traitor tc
the government while the presiding
officer who was also a member of the
presidents Paris peace commission
looked on without word of .reproach
or enforcement of parliamentary rules
"The government has had one suffi
cient warning Of the danger cf interfer
ing with the privacy and freedom Of
the mail. We congratulate you. sir,
that it has fallen to your lot to protest
before the country against the violation
of right which for more than a cen
tury has been one of the most precious
to the English-speakiug race and we
trust that on all proper occasions and
by all proper methods you will insist
on the maintenance Of this right; to the
end that, when the people of the United
States, are stortly called upon by the
action of our cherished institutions to
exercise their sovereignty, they may
have before them full materials for the
formation of their judgement.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23
The PARAMOUNT ISSUE.

The doctrine of self-government is
too plainly written in the history and
traditions of the American people, too
deeply craven on the hearts of men,
10 be obliterated in obedience to party
necessity or international conspiracy.
Mr.. McKinley's imperial policy will
fail just 80 surely as right is right and
that God is God. Offensive epithets
can not destroy principle. To call a
man "copperhead" or an ''auntie'
simply exposes the weakness of imperia-
ism; to assume that American patrio-
tism or fidelity to American institut-
ion is the private property of the
democratic party or of the republican
party is to belle the record of American
sacrifice for justice and for liberty. We
repeat again and again-and we repeat
it with forty parson power-and IF
we could speak with the tongues Of
men and of angles" we would press it
home to the American mind, that this
question of Imperialism is not parti-
san question; that the most inveterate,
ardent and powerful foes of the new
political heresy are republicans; and
that the most destructive folly of those
who love liberty for liberty's sake
would be to estrange those republicans
at this time by drawing the party
line. Give congress chance; and if
congress should fail in its duty, then
wait for the declaration Of the national
republican convention. If that con-
vention shall declare for, sanction or
condone the doctrine of brute force as
substitute for the consent of the COVER
ned by the United States, it's act will
effectually obliterate existing party
lines; and there will be only two par
ties; the imperial party and the Amerl-
can party.-North-W w estern Catholic.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23
LET THE TRUTH Be TOLD.

To the American people the most
sensational information connected with
the war in South Africa is that which
has been furnished to the press of the
United States by Mr.. Marcum, who
was until recently consul for this coun-
try at Pretoria. We Gay sensational in
formation, for surely the news he i'm
parts must profoundly move the ma
ton.
The fact, if fact it be, that the great
seal of the United States, a neutral
power, on communications to it's repre-
sentative at the capital of the Trans
vaal republic has been broken and the
contents put under the scrutiny of the
censors appointed by the military
authority of Great Britain at Capetown
or Durham is like a shot fired across
the Atlantic. Mr.. Marcum's statement
must come to the American people
with much the same startling effect as
would the news that the country's flag
had been fired on.
1t has been known that while the
sympathy of the masses of the people
of this country is overwhelmingly with
the Beers, the sympathy of the admin
istration is with Great Britain; and
much has been heard of secret alli-
ance between the United States and
Great Britain, but nobody had sus-
pected that the men charged with the
administration Of the government had
so far lost the American spirit as to
make the United States of America
practically province Of the British
empire and to submit that the commun-
ications of its Officials, before passing
on to it's agen, in country with which
the empire is at war, should have the
approving stamp of the lion and the
unicorn.
If it be true that the letters from the
department of state to Mr.. Macrum,
the consul of the United States at Pre-
,oria, were broken open by the British
censor and then resealed with sticke'
and sent on to their destination, and the
United States government officials were
apprised of this and kept silent. ther
American craftsmanship has low
point. If they did not know it bu,
shall know it and not demand the full
lest apology, then they will be in an
equally debased position.
The dispalchers report all inquiry al
the state department regarding Mr.
Marcum's statement. They say that the
officials of the department. were averse
to discussing the matter, but that from
an Authoritative source" it was
learned that they discredlted Marcum's &
statement. They ought to discuss the
matter and discuss it quickly, for if we
know we are in the valley of humili-
alton we may sooner get out.
1t is gratifying to observe that Rep
resentative Wheeler of Kentucky has
introduced in the house resolution
calling for information from the state
department regarding the whole sub
iect.- World Herald.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23

The republicans have changed the
name Of their organization from
"Grand Old Party to Goods own
People, And on November 6, the
people will change it again to Gone
Ont, Politically y."-Yankton P. & D.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-02-23

Money to Loan on Real Estate.
Bacon & Larsen make Real Estate
Loans. Loaned $4,000 during Jan
uarY.