The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-07
The Court House.

Il. &. Mitchell ln5nis Tribunal of a
few weeks ago, waves real sarcastic
over the court hojlse question and
rubs it in with the Following. Since
then, the range commissioners have
decided to help ouE the popular de-
mand for court house in the down
town district. ThsTribunal said:
1--WE have hereDfore explained
that the county commissioners from
the ranges could belepended upon to
vote in favor of building the proposed
new court house onsbhe old site--not
| because they reallsl thought it the
| besJ site that couie be chosen, or be-
cause they really ia cared after be-
ing put to the incgsyience, delay and
unnecessary expenH CT trip away up
the hill, whenevleg shey have occasion
to visit the cour III sise for any pur-
pOSe-but simply because, when the
proper time comes.gshey want to use
the inconyenient afkgt ion OF our court
house as an argur ST. with their own
people in favor OF division of the
county s&
"There is una 4sEaedly quite
4sSrvfv I <sseire0psc.ef-
the range towns iA flyor OF county
division; but stiff that sentiment
lacks great deal of being unanimous
Should the county be divided, the
strong probability is shat either Hib-
bling, Eveleth or Virginia would be
chosen as the county seat Of the new
county, but there is SO much rivalry
between those three towns, that a
great many people in each town,
would rather that the county should
not be divided for the next quarter Of
century, than that either one OF
their rivals should be made the cOun-
ty seat and thus be given a prestige
and advantage oyer the Others for all
| times to come. There is as we have
said, strong sentiment up on the
ranges in favor Of county division. but
it will have to be worked up" rather
skillfully. and in no other way could
the "long heads" up there work up
that sentiment more Skillfully than
by making the rank and file Of the
people in the range towns believe
that they are being imposed upon
and mistreated by ''the old county,"
or by the Duluth end of the old coun-
ty. On both of the occasions when
the county division question was up,
it may be remembered that one of the
strong arguments used by the range
papers and the range orators in favor
of county division. was the loss OF
time Inconvenience and expense that
all the thousands of the range people
were put to every time they have &C.
casion to visit the court house as
many Of them have occasion to do
several times each year.
"Attention was called to the fact
that the range citizen, when coming
to- Duluth to pay his taxes for in
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by stepping into some centrally locat-
ed building, had to spend from to Is
minutes at third avenue West wait
ing for a car to go up the hill; that
then he had to pay five cents into the
paw of the street railway company;
that then he had to spend from eight
to ten minutes of valuable time in
reaching his destination; that then
after transacting his business and
being ready to return he usually had
to wait from five to ten minutes for
car to take him down again, and
that finally after spending an hour or
more of time and 10 cents in cash; he
finally reached his starting point,
having lost so much time on the trip
that he could not attend to his other
in the stores in time to take the next
train home, and that he was compel
led to incur a hotel bill and take
later train home.
"Of course, the long heads up on
the ranges, among whom are the
county commissioners from that sect
ion of the county, want toutilize that