The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-05-10
THE SUPERIOR TIMES.
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1878.
DREDGING ought to begin soon.

THERE is a small boat "openng" in the dyke.
PLoUeHING, hauling, dtching, repairing, planting
going on.
STEAMBOAT left Detroit on Wednesday evening
7th for Lake Superior.
STEAM ferry minnie "" will run as soon the
dyke sand bank is passable
NExapgI, or more correctly speaking, the Ne-muj
ti-oue-ay, has been on high.
THEY are still Kelloggrolling and Colaxing down in
the Pelican state Let us have peace
CoRDs of wood stacked on the right bank of the
Left Hand river. Perhaps two thousand Of them.
RAIN, much looked for reached Thursday.
Cloudy all day yesterday and to-day some appearance
of continued rain.
THE Farmers Cheap Transportation Convention met
in New York the 7th, eecng Josiah Quincey of
Boston, Chairman.
THERE is prospect that the dog fights of
the Duluth dailies One has quit in disgust,
and tells the other to snar On.
WORK has been resumed at the new well on Second
Street. opposite the Middetown school house 1t has
been sunk to the depth of 43 feet.
STEAMERS reach the head of Lake Superior on an
average by the Sth of May A fact which shows that
the present season is exceptionally backward
THE fishermen Of Superior rapidly preparing for
active operations, and white fish and trout will
be ready for shipment and home consumption.
IN next weeks issue, expect to give
readers further and more definite information, to
the several railroad projects referred to in TINES of 3d.
Mr. Lemay of Grant and Lemay, returned this
SC tn mis- on
Wisconsin pier, under the old appropriation by Gov
eminent
4 PARTY of Government surveyors passed through
Superior this week. on their way to Bad river, where
they expect to complete the survey of the Indian Res
ervation.
WIND blew off land Sunday morning, and drove the
ice-feld down the lake a change of wind brought it
back by dark. The wind has since been from the
northeast until this morning
A GOOD portion of the Chippewa feet returned from
up the St Louis river yesterday bringing the annual
supply of maple sugar in various packages from the
huge mokuk to the patty pan turnout
THE Snsnnasty Commercial edited by Mulev Hal
sted is still lying like George Francis Train about the
climate of the Northwest Well trade is dull at Sin
sin lately and Muley has daily to scratch for,
IT is with Payne we record that the Zenith still lags
behind Chicago in the real estate business. Chicago
sells property every week to the value of one and
quarter millions of dollars. Nothing dead in that
CHIEF Justice Chase died at New York, Wednesday
morning, of paralysis, at the age of 65 He had come
on from Washington the day before in apparent good
health. Thus by one the Stars of the Republic
set.
NAVIGATION the Lakes is open We can prove
it, The propeller Arizona just thawed out from the
Sault canal, ran against the propeller Blanchard on
Thursday, just north of the St Clair Flats and sunk
in Il feet Of water The Captain -ofthe-P Period was
aboard HE, tell yer nobody tub lame.
The propeller Acadia has been blockaded at Duluth
she would have been around to Peyton & Kimball's
mill to load with lumber before this time P S.: Just
before going to press the Acadia came into Superior
Bay, via the entry" without any difficulty.
LOGS A rise in the Nemadji river is bringing down
the logs; about thousand of Mr.. Murphys have
down, and lying in the boom, at the |
mouth of the river Messrs. Peyton Kimball Brad
ford and others, expect several thousand of theirs
down in the of the day two, when the big
boom will be pretty well filled with excellent pine logs
M L. Avery Esq, the popular proprietor of the SUI
perior House, is preparing for large influx of guests
this season; he has force of workmen engaged in
renovating and greatly improving his excellent hotel
thereby adding very much the appearance and com
fort of the same The painting and calcinng is be-
ing handsomely done by John B. Avery; the plaster
ing by that tip-top workman J. P. Larson with as
sistants.
YOUNG man by the name of William Gikely, en-
poyed the past year by Messrs. Peyton & Kmball as
teamstey rusty nail into the ball of his foot
week ago last Sunday. Notwithstanding medical aid
and kind attendance, the wound resulted in gangrene
and poisoning of the blood, occasioning death last
Wednesday night Mr. Gikely was faithful and
good hearted young mar, well thought of by bis en-
ployers and acquaintance
THE St. Paul Press of yesterday says The project
OF a steamboat canal between St Paul and Lake Su-
perior has advocates in this city, and effort
will be made to have its practicabity demonstrated
bv government engineers" The Pioneer of Thursday
has column article on the 'St Crox and Lake Su,
perior canan discussing the in the light afford
ed by items in David Dale Owens Geological report.
We may refer this hereafter. There is question
Of two things: the Northwest needs such a canal
and such a canal can be built cheaply the aver
age of artificial water routes To which we might add
that in all probability steamboats, will be passing from
the Mississippi Superior Bay by 1880, farthest
The EARLY RosE.-The fellows over in the Upper
Branch line of the Mississippi river, where scow
with uuder-shot mllwheel attachment is called pro-
peller are Dragging about the early opening of nav