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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13

To the Honorable Board Of Super
visors Of the County Of Douglas:
The undersigned, committee APP
pointed to examine and report on
the annual statements and accounts
of the County Clerk aud Treasurer,
beg leave to report; That after care
tul and critical examination they find
such statements and accounts sub
stantiaIIy correct, and from them
the financial affairs Of the County
appear as follows:
Resourccs-Tax Certificates and
Delinquent taxes Sl7,O54 "a
Liablites-Amount due District
School Fund from Delinquent
Taxes %i,24I63
Co. orders outstanding 8,S55.4l 10, 1880
Surplus, S6,95L7o
Showing an apparently healthy con
dition of the finances; but your com
mittee desire to call to your atten-
tion the presumption, that the actual
value Of the enumerated assets, will
fall far below the face or apparent
value, and that it is extremely i'm
probable that the outstanding obi
cations Of the County, can be liquid
ated with the means at It's disposal,
as set forth in the annual statements.
There can be 10 doubt that the
County holds property, not included
in the statements, which is far in
excess Of liabilities, as
Court House and Public offices say Sl5, 900
Jail and Public Grounds improved say 10000
Sundry Franchises estimated 25,00o
Making total of say S5O,OOO
besides the assets enumerated in the
annual statement; but these are not
Immediately available, and cannot
be applied to the eXtinguishment OF
Indebtedness without delay, loss
and embarrassment to the business
of the County, and it ought not to
be necessary to consider such assets
In estimating resources.
1t is probably beyond the prov
ince Of this commission to inquire
into the causes which have operated
to produce this unpleasant state OF
affairs They are too obvious to
escape the notice of your honorable
body. However, IN the course OF
the examination of the Delinquent
Roll, your committee observed that
a large proportion of the unpaid and
delinquent taxes, is due from men
OF ample means and ability to pay,
and their neglect constitutes one OF
the causes referred to.
THOS. CLARK,
GEO. W. PERRY,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13

The last rail of the Green Bay
and Minnesota Railroad was laid on
the LIT INST, connecting Green Bay
with the Mississippi, at Winona.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13

this next year. Nearly all of the
mines which help to make up this
large yield, were never looking bet
ter than they are to-day"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13

AUDITED AND ALLOWED
BY The COUNTY BOARD OF SUPER
VISORS DURING TIE YEAR ENDING
NOV. IA, 1878.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13
STATE OF " .sooNsIN, DOUGLAS CoUNTY-ss.

-.
y In Probate Court
Ia the Matter Of the Last VIII Of George Sprague,
deceased.
On reading aud fling certified copy Of the Last
VIII Of George Spfague and the perition # Minerva
A. S?raZue representing among other things, that
George Spra-ue late # Cleveland, Ohio died and be
ing nou-resident of this County the time o. his
death letvi real estate within this County, and
that the said petitioner is the widow Of said deceased
and praying that said Last iii be proven and admit
ted 10 probate, II is ordered that said petition he
heard before the Judge Of this Court. Monday the
twenty second day II December, 4. ID. 1873, at two
O'Clock Z. ~ AT tue Probate Court at Superior
in said County. Orere fH ther. that notice thereof
b. given 10 the heirs of said deceased and to all per
interested by Publishing py Of this order for
three successive weeks prior 10 said day Of hearing.
in the Superior Times, weekly newspaper printed
aud published at superior in said County.
Dated at Superior the twenty y-frst day of Noyem-
Der A. d. 1873.
by the Court, TH9s. CLARK, Judge Of Probate.
nnv22 irc2n
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13

COPPER AND IROA PRODUCIS Or
LAKE SUPERIOR FOR THE PAST
YEAR.
That reliable paper, the Portage
Lake Gazette, in It's issue Of last
week, publishes statistics of the
copper and iron products Of Lake
Superior for the year just closed.
from which we make up the follow
ing particulars;
The yield of copper in the three
districts portage Lake, Kew eenaW
Point and Ontonagon-for the cur
rent year, was ,5l4 tons ofminer-
III, or about l4,5OO tons of ingot
copper; which at the present low
price of % cents per pound, make
the value Of the copper product
$3.50, 900.
The iron product III the Marquette
and surrounding districts was, OF
iron ore I,066,875 tons, giving at
the low price Of IS per ton, the val
nc of iron ore IS, ,535, 5,O00-of pig
iron there was produced 35,245
tons which at $50 per ton makes
s2,ll4,7OO.
To rppanItulata we IN lSP.
The value of copper product S6,67c,o0C
iron 10, o,649, roc
Grand total value copper and iron 1879, zoe
The Gazstte says "we must con
nratulate the friends Of the mineral
developments going on up here, on
the magnificent exhibit which the
copper and iron regions make for
the current year. By comparing
the totals in our copper tables, II
will be seen that the production n
1873 in the Portage Lake district,
exceeded that Of last year by 2,572
tons; and in the Keweenaw dis
trIct, g45 tons more than in 1872.
Ontonagon has fallen off, but We
hope there are better days in store
for this pioneer district.
This is the largest amount OF
copper ever obtained in one year,
from the copper mines OF northern
Michigan Comment is mnecessa-
ry; the array OF figures we publish,
carry with them their own story,
we look for even better results than
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13

6574 46
STATE OF WISCONSIN, / IS.
County Of Douglas.
Rich,rd Relf, county clerk, being duly
sworn, says that the foregoing is a correct
statement of the receipts AID disbursements
in the County clerks Office since the last an
nual statement November 2l, 1872.
RICHD RELF, County Clerk.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of Nov. 1873 THOS. CLARK
County Judge.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13
STATE OF WISCONSIN, J
County of Douglas. IS.

STATE OF WISCONSIN,
County Of Douglas. S.
Thompson Richie, county treasurer, being
duly sworn, says the foregoing is a correct
statement Of the receipts and disbursements
in the Treasurers Office from the 18th day of
November \. D. 1872, to Nov 18th 1878.
THOMPSON RIrcHE, County Treas
Sworn TO and subscribed before me this
l1th day of Nov. \. D. 1873
D. GEo. MORRISON, Notary Public
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13

DANGEROUS KERosENE.-A suit has just ter
minated at La Crosse growing out of the
burning of the steamer War Eagle 1T that
place, in which a large number of expert
ments were tried with kerosene before the
court and jury, to show the combustible ma
ture of great deal of that oil. 1t was shown
that large proportion of the kerosene kept
by the dealers in that city, was highly eXplo-
sive and would not stand the legal test The
same is no doubt true of much of the kero-
scne kep6 III other places, and the public are
deeply interested in having a stop put to the
sale OF dangerous oil 4 law was passed last
winter which makes every person, selling
kerosene that will not stand the test Of 40
degrees, liable to a fine Of 500 or imprison-
ment for 30 days in the county Jail, or both
fine and imprisonment The law requires
every person selling kerosene TO test it before
Offering it for sale, and if it will ignite mt less
than 10 degrees then it is dangerous and
unlawful to sell it. Every dealer in this city
or State should give this matter prompt and
careful attention, or they may be subjected
to the penalties the law mposes.-Hln2sot
FFs) Star d' Times.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13
STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY on DOUGLAS
- Ia Circuit Court.
Marie b Dayton against
Annette Ref, Richard Relf and Thomas

Clark,
The State Of Wisconsin,
To Annette Relf, Richard Relf and Thorn
as Clark the defendants above named:
You and each of you are hereby summoned
and required to answer the complaint of Ma
RE b. Dayton the plaintiff in the above enti-
tied action, which said complaint is fled III
the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court in
and for said Douglas county at Superior in
said county and to serve a copy of your an
swer upon the undersigned at his Office in the
town of Superior in said county of Douglas,
within twenty days after the service of this
summons exclusive of the day of service, and
if you shall fail 10 answer said complaint, as
hereby required within the time aforesaid,
the plaintiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in said complaint.
II. \. SETTER, Prtfs Atty.
Dated Oct. 10th, 1873. de6jan17
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The salaries for the following county Off
GERS TO be elected during the ensuing year
were fixed as follows:
County treasurer 81 600 90
County clerk I,4OO 90
Dist Atty 800 90
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13

" Hacker stationery and clock registers office 81 -
Louis Allaire vanishing furniture house As so
ltItche furniture and material court house 81 20
j BishOf bread for Bayfield, road 10
4 Burke saving wooG for court house ) o.
Merrill Co stationery Co surveyors office 10 90
Twn cl copying - mt roll Co clks office 151 90
W Perry stationery for county offices II 30
Chas Caddtto chain. for use on BAYFIELD, road : 90
Jno Lynch scrubbing ont jail 80
Patterson McQuaie material for furniture Co 81
pesinyal team hire Bay field road 90
Roy fixtures for sherifIs office 40
C Fregeau 5 days teaming on ST Croix road 30 90
Clark teamrng 90
Newton sherifs fees 80
q Coburn provision for road men and lumber 150 ~
Sheridan hardware for roads aud coert use % U0
Syer qrs salary clerk Of court 81 80
April lst, 1873.
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Dated Dee. 9th, 1878.

The tax levy for the year 1873
upon the assessed valuation
Douglas County, 81, ,292, 2,O83, was
made aS follows:
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The following named persons were selected
by the Board to serve as Jurors during the
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AprlI Ibth, 1910.

DeWar 30 days surveying st Cr5iX road 100 90
do paid team. moving camp 33
J Bruno Is days work survey st Crox road 45 90
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13

7 Z Negtcu work on furniture registers office 81 %
A Zachau teamiug Bayfield, road s22 % al Wi II -
d. lamps aud mating Tor court room - 51
20 provisions for men on Baytieid road 20 y
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13

81 Paul Press books aud blanks probate office ia %
II knight List uf entries 1873 81 90
VIM CrsuwelI 9 office Cb airs q 90
Ailre oiling and painting registers Office jail 10 90
Payne to refund redemption printing paid 20 10
" Hacker stationery county offices Is 81
D q Morrison express charges on books 25
Waters carpenter W0r. court house and jill 10
r Reif books and material for Office 10 50
Stuutz of field notes and plats to copy 30 90
7 Clark copying % 90
{ L iself 46 90
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Clerk Circuit court statutory fees > %
T5riuus staples Co work ST c r'd $3.50 aw'd 300 90
/ Times Printing Co blanks tor CaJ DE 10 10 90
Niedecken Co books for ca ey0fs Office u 50
Newton furniture and work az court house 81 %
I ; Wakeiin trips team examination Of harbor ~ 90
J Bruno 81 days survey con cite wn plats 10 .
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-02-05
Senator.

THE new senator from Kansas is John j..
Ingalls,, and is said to be eminently quail
fed to redeem the position he is soon to
hold from the ignominy brought upon it
by his immediate predecessor. He is a
native of Massachusetts, and went to
Kansas in 1857, where he took an active
part in the struggle against slavery. He is
now just in the prime of his intellectual
manhood, be,ng somewhat over forty years
of age. He graduated at Harvard college
and afterwards studied at the Cambridge
law school. He is one of the most brilliant
writers in the country and is a constant
| contributor to the Kansas periodicals. lie
has been at various times clerk of the
legislature and was a member of the con-
yention which framed the present constitu-
| ton of the state. His election marks we
hope, a new era, indicating that, the old
set of politicians are overthrown and that
a younger and more vigorous race of men
have stepped to the front.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-02-05
Thc Farrasut statue.

Congress having resolved to have a
statue of our great sailor, invited competi-
ton. Numerous artists have responded
by sending to the capitol models Of the
late Admiral. Winnie Ream's model was
badly broken by careless handling in re-
moving it. The heroic young artist with
out a complaining word, set herself to
repair the damage, and was quite successful.
President Grant was at the capitol a few
days since, and during his visit inspected the
models for the statue of Admiral Farragut
in the lower corridor of the Senate. He
viewed all of the models grouped in the
corridor in silence, but with apparent care
and interest, and then passed to the corner
where Miss Winnie Ream's statue of Far
ragut is placed. After examining it in
tently for some time, he turned to Miss
Ream and said, Miss Ream, that is first
rate.n He then took his departure. leaving
the little sculptor, in this compliment to hel
work. some consolation for the vexatious
accident which happened to her model or
its way to the capitol. She asks only to
have her work tried upon its merits. Il
there is a doubt, we trust that the com.
mittee will give her the benefit of it, be-
cause she is a true artist and a true woman,
of whom the country should be proud
Mrs. Farragut has seen Miss Ream's bus
of her late husband, and pronounces it tn
best she has yet seen at all. 81
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-02-05

1t is q shame and disgrace to the State
Of Virginia and to the whole American
people that the Home and Grave of Wash
ington should be made a ~catch-penny
show. Yet such 1t has become What
must be the impression of an enlightened
traveller from abroad, who finds that he
can visit the grave of the greatest historic
American known to him, only by means of
a single steamer and upon payment of
one dollar and half. If he comes to the
wharf by any other boat than the
privileged one, he is refused the
right to land, or to enter the grounds.
Even if he pay the fifty-six cents required
for admission and wharfage Of the steam
boat company, he is held to be an intruder.
The State of Virginia should promptly
repeal the charter Of the Mt. Vernon
Association and wipe its hands of this
disgrace. The association numbers in its
ranks many noble men and women who
should promptly reorganize and put them
selves right before the public. IL they can
LOt GhppOib tlC SVI1SSl iOopSStdblJ y Y
surrender the property to the nation. Con-
gress will no doubt be willing to take
charge Of it. With some slight additions
which can be cheaply purchased the
grounds would afford a splendid expert
mental garden for the trial and propagation
Of all useful and ornamental plants. A
collection of all the fruits Of the temperate
zone, as well as its grains, grasses and veg
etables, is much needed, as a standard of
reference, and would be invaluable to hor-
ticulturalists. There is a peculiar appro-
priateness in making such a use of Mt
Vernon. Washington was an enlightened
and successful farmer. Agriculture was
his delight. 1t is most fitting that the very
fields where he made some of the earliest
experiments in that great art, should be per.
manently consecrated to similar purposes
by Congress for the benefit of the whole
people. The agricultural department
should be entrusted with its care. Mr..
Saunders, the accomplished superintendent
of the experimental garden and grounds
would make a second Eden Of it in a few
years and at small expense. A small por
ton of the money now spent for seed
would do it and would furnish seeds, plant
and cuttings enough every year to more thar
repay the outlay. The light labor and car,
might be performed by worthy disabled
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-02-05
state Assayer.

WE have read over the Senate bill
authorizing the appointment of a State
Assayer and Chemist, whose office
shall be in the city of Richmond. The
bill provides that his duties shall be to
make an analysis Of such soils and
assay such ores and metals as
shall be presented to him for that pur-
pose, the compensation therefor being
paid by the parties seeking such analysis
and assay. We took occasion some time
ago to commend the appointment of such
an officer for the State, publishing a letter
at the same time from one of Jul most
prominent citizens, urging, for reasons
stated, the necessity for such appointment.
The bill as drawn would seem to be all
that is required to secure a competent per-
son as assayer and agricultural chemist Tor
the State, and W. presume it will become
a law without opposition from any quarter.
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rIermnrializinG Congrass.

We are pleased to see the joint reSoio-
tion of the two houses Of the General
Assembly memorializiDg Congress to 90
nate and set apart a portion of the pubic
lands for the public free schools OF Nir-
ginia. If Congress was ever memoriallzed
to do a more just or equitable thing, or
one having higher claims upon its consid-
Grafton, in the whole history OF its exist
ence, it would be difficult to name it. The
intelligence of our people need not be IN
voked to give the reasons why such a dona-
ton of the public lands should De
made. Every schoolboy knows OF
the magnificent donation by Virginia to the
Federal government Of the vast territory
now composing some Of the greatest and
most powerful states of the Union. Then
Virginia, was rich and powerful, and she
gave to the Federal government twenty
| times more than she is snow worth. The war,
into which she was forced against her will,
left her crushed and powerlcss to educate
her sons. Out of her own splendid
benefactions in the days of her pros
perity, a large number of states
were endowed with magnificent schoo
funds. some of these endowments reach
ing even to New England. Is it not tim
that the just claims of our people to sucI
recognition as Connecticut and other state
received in the earlier days of the Republic
should now be fully recognized by tn
Congress of the United States? We be
licve that the temper of the present Con
gress is favorable for such a grant, an
hope our members of Congress, in both it
branches, will use their best influence to 81
cure the grant so justly asked for.
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a JOURNAL,
Richmond. Va,
OFFICIAL.

ny THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.
d A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the Gen.
eral Assembly of Virginia did on the 9TH day OF
January, 1873, agree to q resolution In these
words, to wit
"That the holders of the bonds of the State
of Virginia, either in person or by proxy, be re-
spectfully invited to meet in conference a COM
mittee of the General Assembly of Virginia on
the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred
and seyenty-three, in the city of Richmond, to
consider the existing liabilities of the State OF
Virginia. with q view to a fair, just, equitable,
honorable and certain settlement OF the same
And whereas on the 22d day of January, 1873,
the General Assembly did agree to another reso-
luton, which is in these words, to wit
"That the governor be requested to give OIL
cial notice to the creditors of the state OF the
meeting proposed TO be held in the city OF Rich-
mond on the fifteenth of February next, ana
invite their attendance
Now, therefore, ], GILBERT @. WALKER, Gov
ernor of the Commonwealth, do hereby make
known the said action of the General Assembly,
and do respectfully invite the holders of the
bonds of Virginia to assemble, in person or by
proxy, In the city of Richmond at the time and
for the purpose above set forth.
~o, Done at Richmond. this twenty.third day
IL. s.{ of January, one thousand eight hum
wv dred and seventy-three, and In the
ninety seventh year of the Common
wealth G.. @. WALKER. .
By the Governor
JAMES MCDONALD,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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