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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-02-28
1S56-1S74.
Z. w. ANDERSON, JR.,
r H A i H ST A II E
AGENT & BROKER
R, WISCONSIN.
WEST WISCONSIN RAILWAY.
SUPERIOR,

st. Paul and Chicago Through Line running
through trains between ST. Paul and Chi
cago-via Elroy-passing through Eau
Claire, Baraboo, Madison, Beloit, Harvard,
and connecting in Chicago for all points
East, South and West.
The only line running the celebrated Pullman
Palace day and night coaches between st.
Paul and Chicago
estinghouse Air Brakes and Miller Safety
Platforms
Chicago Express leaves St. Paul daily, except
Sunday, 9 AN, connecting at Merrillan
for Green Bay and Milwaukee, connecting
at Camp Douglas for Portage, Watertown,
Milwaukee and points East via Grand Ha-
ven, arriving in Chicago $40 AN.
st. Paul Express leaves Chicago daily except
Saturday, arrives in St. Paul 7:20 Pm.
Through tickets to all important points for
sale by j. w. KENYON, TEX Agt,
Minneapolis,
and by CHAs THOMPSON, TEX Agt,
Cor Sd & Jackson street, st. Paul.
WM. 6. SWAN,
Gen1 Supt., Hudson, Wis.
F. B. CLARKE,
Gen Frt Agt, st. Paul
g. NJ. HUNTINGTON,
Gen TEX Agt, st. Paul feb2l
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the power in the old lines of com
merce and the domineering habits
of unchecked monopoly The St.
Croix grant utilized, Ashland, Bay
field and Superior will become
sharp competitors for agricultural
trade; they are free Of embarrassing
municipal debt and will induce cap
ital to join in successful competi-
ton for the carrying trade, and at
once relieve the producers in the
river valleys.
Superior is ready for this compe-
tition; we have score of business
men here. For quite twenty years
they hive kept up a trade in lumber,
fishing, cattle driving, Indian trade
and mining, shipping and overland
teaming. Their profits have been
moderate but constant and cumula-
tive. They are experienced bust
ness men; give them one end of a
railroad penetrating the productive
districts, and not a bushel of wheat
but would be on ship board at fve
cents less than i'll any other direc-
ton except Ashland or Bayfield,,
where they will ever be ready to do
better when they can.
Moreover there are twenty or
perhaps nearer the truth a hundred
mechanics, shippers, merchants and
bankers Of experience and capital
who have purchased property here,
lots and lands, with the purpose of
coming here SO soon as the St Croix
grant shall be utilized; and at cnce
enter upon active pursuits, without
being first victimized by spectators
for business lots.
We have no word Of encourage
ment tor any who hope for a pre-
mature development OF Superior or
some make-Shitt for dolcd favors.
Our rights are substantial; not one
will be surrendered to any cIamor
or specious pretence. We are rea-
dy to part with onr property and
give ample room upon just and equi-
table terms to all enterprises found
ed in good faith; whose Directories
are possessed OF means and honest
ability to meet their engagements.
The St Croix Land Grant was
and still is a permanent endowment
for the northwest quarter Of this
State. The Courts treat it as such,
and 50 does Congress; its diversion
and confscation Tor the ephemeral
use of pine land ring and carpet
baggers, would seal the destiny Of
this quarter Of the State, and post
pone It's civilized settlem Mt to the
t,oentyJirSt century.
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hcationS as shall render the premises safe so
tar as may be from fire Such directions
shall be III writing, and if the owner or occu-
pant deem the same burdensome, unnecessa-
ry or unjust, he may appeal to the chairman
OF the town board theretrom, and Immediate
~ upon such appeal it shall be the duty of
the said chairman to inspect Immediately
said premises, and if he shall agree with said
Fire Warden he shall endorse his approval
on said written directions Of said Fire War
den. If he shall not approve said directions
of said Fire Warden so appealed from, he
may modify the same, and If so he shall en-
dorse his modification of said directions on
the same. If the directions of said Fire War
den be not appealed from within two days
from the time they are given and the owner
or occupant shall fail to obey the said direc-
tions within three days, he shall, upon con-
victlAl OF neglect so TO DO, III any justices
court in said town, be fined not less than ten
dollars nor more than twenty dollars If af-
ter an appeal has been taken, and the direc-
tions of said Warden shall have been approv-
ed, the said owner or occupant shall fail to
obey the said directions within three days
from the approval of the same by the said chair
man, he shall, upon conviction Of such neg
lect, be fined not less than ten nor more than
twenty dollars.
Sec. ). The said Warden shall be entitled
to receive for his said services the sum Of two
dollars per day; provided however, that said
Warden shall not receive more than sixty
dollars in any one year, the said sum to be
paid out of the general town fund
Sec. g. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after it's passage and pubIica-
tion.
Approved February II, 1874.
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UNF4IRNESS OF EI-GOT. WASH
BURN'lS ST,ATEMENT.

UNFAIRNESS OF ET-G or. WASH
BURN'S STATEMENT.
That Ex-Goy. Washburn was un-
necessarily exercised in regard to
the resolutions Of inquiry introduce
ed at Madison, his best friends must
admit. Unless there was something
to be covered up, why all this smoke.
Why such a labored and lengthy
defense before any charges were
made. Why such a determined eff
fort to convince the Committee on
State Affairs that the law gave him
authority to make a breakfast of our
harbor if he chose, when the law is
so very plain, that "FoR THESE PUR-
POSES" "the removal of the dyke
and for preventing any diversion of
the current of said river from It's
natural mouth" he should be allow
ed the latitude claimed by him, and
&" for these purposes" alone, is any
latitude given.
We wonder it never occurred 20
him to account for the reason that
lead Judge Miller to make the
suggestion upon the first hear
ing, that possibly the injunction
would be dissolved upon the build
ing Of dyke. Was it possible in
his frequent journeyings into Min
nesota he had never been shown the
magnificent plan of Duluth as sketch
ed by her founders, with canal and
dyke and cut through Rice's Point.
Perhaps Judge Miller had seen it
hence the suggestion that Jay Cooke
took so kindly to.
This first dyke his defense says,
"Duluth went on and built and shut
off the diversion of waters from St.
Louis river" This was the dyke
that Mr.. Washburn knows turned
the ST. Louis about as effectually as
an old Virginia worm fence would
turn a nor'-easter, and the first part
of which was blown out of the bay
before the last part was put down.
As to his scientific commission to
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determine whether water would run
the fastest up Hill or down, that was
congincingly decided by the very
competent witness that testified in
his behalf before the committee.
Still its object was always a mystic
ry 70 common folks with ordinary
eyes, unless upon the principle of
fair dealing i'll prize fighting, a de-
sire to give Duluth ali opportunity to
come to "time."
The name of the citizen of Supe-
rlor who failed for one week to re-
ply to Mr. Washburn's letter asking
advice, should have been given, as
by his delay, he came within three
days OF cheating the gentleman out
OF n compromise, as the time for the
defendants to answer would then
have eXpired,and judgment entered.
L Mr.. Washburn was acting in
such perfect good faith, why did he
allow it to be asserted by us and
believed by the attorneys for the
State, till within the last two weeks,
that the suit was not dismissed,
when in his defense he admits he
stipulated, when the compromise
was made, for its dismissal so soon
as the appropriation for dredging
and act for bridging the St. Louis
river had passed congress.
1t may have been so, but we are
of the opinion that the States attor-
neys are too good lawyers to have
asked in their complaint for only
one narrow shoot in the dyke. But
the defense tells us, An opening
having been made in the dyke there
was no reason for maintaining the
suit any longer, as ,oe had o6tai,aed
all IRE asked for IN the suit and it
was dismissed" Poor suit One
good keg of powder could have ac-
complished as much.
Why, it may be asked, was this
compromise made, when at no dis
tant day, in the prophetic eye of the
defense, but never explained to the
people Of Superior, "the Northern
Pacific would not have the ability
to build the road" unless for the
purpose Of washing his hands Of our
affairs by a transaction that but few
men possessing his knowledge would
have entered into.
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Published February 10, 1874 ]

CHAPTER 27.
AN ACT to provide for the appointment of
Fire Wardens in certain cases.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section /. The board of supervisors of any
town in the counties of Ashland Bayfield, and
Douglas are hereby authoriaed to appoint,
and it is hereby made their duty to appoint,
upon the petition of ten resident freeholders
of any unincorporated village in any of said
towns, a suitable person to perform the du-
ties of a Fire Warden for said village or vii
lagos.
Sec 2 Such Fire Warden shall be a resi-
dent of the village in which he is to act, and
shall be freeholder therein, and shall hold
his Office for one year from the date of his
appointment.
Sec g. The town board may remove said
Fire Warden from Office if found guilty by
them of neglect of duty or malfeasance in
said office, provided that such charges shall
be in writing and copy thereof shall be
served upon the accused at least ten days be-
fore the trial of said charges Upon the re-
moval of any such Fire Warden in such man
ner it shall be the duty of said board imme-
diately to fill the vacancy thereby created,
and the person so appointed shall hold the
office for the unexpired term of his prcdeces-
SOr.
Sec. f. 1t shall be the duty of said Fire
Warden to take all necessary and proper
means for the prevention of fires in said vii
lage, and to that end he may at any time en-
ter into or open any house, storehouse or
other building or enclosure within said village
for the purpose of inspecting the same and
with a view to guard against fire. 1t shall be
the duty of said Fire Warden to enter any
building within the limits of said village
where he may have reason to believe danger
of fire exists, III consequence of any chimney,
pipe, lamp, gas fixtures, or from any other
cause, and give directions to the owner or
occupants for such changes, repairs or modi-
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THE ST. CROLY LAND GRANT-OUR
RAILROAD SYSTEM i NECESSITY
FOR THE GR4NGERS-NO CON
FLSCATIONS IN FL VOR OF C4R-
PET BA GGERS NOR "ARDENT
ZEAL" FOR SHAM JOBBLNG.
An anxiety is prevalent regarding
the st. Croix Land Grant, fear
that Congress will not extend the
time for its application, and in some
quarters a desire to have it restored
TO market.
We are doubtless correct IN the
belief that Congress has never yet
reclaimed a grant, The beneficial
ries have as practice, been always
INDUCED until the local demand,
travel, commerce and agric ulture,
stimulated and invited capital to
construct the endowed project.
G'hus Ill 1908 a grant was made to
Ohio for team road from Sandus-
ky to the Maumee river, through the
Black swamp; but the State did not
complete the road and fully acquire
the lands until 1910. The first rail
road grant to Minnesota was in
1894; it was for SIX sections per
mile; ten years afterwards it was
increased to ten, and not finally ac-
CURED till 1870. True, the Lower
House III sort of comical play led
off by Proctor Knott refused, but it
is too well known that the parties
who then claimed the control were
not urging the renewal
1t is said the old States will no
longer continue the land grant poll
.cy. This is hardly to be believed;
they cannot consistently withhold
from us our rights, after taking for
the use of their colleges, millions of
acres in the shape of warrants aud
scrip
Much as we have suffered by the
treatment had from parties who
have had the control Of the Saint
Groix grant, it is nevertheless true,
that influences beyond their power
to WELD have defeated their honesty.
We may now assert that more ia
vorable auspices have not been APP
parent. The exportable surplus in
Minnesota and WiSconsin-ten mil
lions bushels Of grain, hundred
miles nearer Superior, Ashland or
BAYFIELD, than Lake Michigan, de-
mands cheap transportation. This
surplus is fifty miles nearer our
Lake ports than 1t is by way OF the
St Paul and Lake Superior road.
The latter road is defeated by
Southern combinations; out OF tit-
teen millions bushels due it, but two
millions in 1878 found the way TO
Lake Superior. one lake port on
this lake, one road to it and limited
socal capital, cannot compete with
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Our city is in debt as we have previous
ly shown, nearly half a million of dollars, and
the only tangible assets that she has, that we
know of are Sl9, 900 of stock in the citizens
dock (which stock is not worth cents on a
dollar) a fire engine which she has not paid
for, and an engine-house which our public
spirited fellow townsman, Alderman j D.
Ray, built for the city, and on which he now
holds mortgage for its cost.-Du1,th 1rj-
jgtne
The Madison Democrat quotes
the above and remarks: " The Ze-
NTH City Of the unsalted seas is not
enjoying season of unwonted pros
perity since Jay Cookies bank
ruptcy.
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Approved, Feb. 81, 1874

THE " EDINBoRo REVIEW The
EdjnbOro Revieao {Sco tland) says:
:" Landseer is the greatest painter of
animals that ever existed; while in
addition to the exquisite handling of
his pictures, and thorough knowl-
edge Of the anatomy Of the animal
he paints, he throws into compost
tions of this kind a degree of senti-
ment and poetry Of which lutte is
found even in the best works OF Ru-
benS. The proprietors Of The Chris
tja3l at Work, I. De Witt Talmage
editor, have had produced careful
copy Of Landseer's Twins, one of
his finest paintings Of sheep and
Scotch Shepherd dogs. The chro-
mo is very large one, and is wor
thy Of a place in any parlor in the
land. Fall particulars can be had
by addressing the publishers, lO2
Chambers street, n. Y. Agents are
wanted everywhere"
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FROM the citizens Of Superior
who have just returned from Madi-
son, we hear only the most crafty
ing expressions Of satisfaction with
their interviews with Gov. Taylor.
They all seem to think he has the
ring of the true metal, and were
very favorably impressed with his
intelligence. fine personal appear
ance, afable manners aud true dig
nifty They claim that cur farmer
governor is the right man in the
right place.
The Governor expressed great in
terest in our affairs, and a deter
mination to uphold the sovereignty
Of the State in the protection of
Superior harbor, in most unmistak-
able terms
We understand he proposes to
pay us a visit in the early spring
for the purpose Of thoroughly post
ing himself that he may the better
protect our interests. Superior will
warmly welcome him. -
-@>-~
THE ST, LOUIS BRIDGE AND IlHA T
RENO VSTP A NOE
To the Editor of the Superior Times.
Being in Madison on the 7th inst, the last
day for the Introduction Of bills, memorials,
etc, in consultation with Mr. l. l. Moore, |
drew and We got Senator Barron to introduce
in the Senate memorial, asking Congress to
repeal the Act of last winter, authorizing the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company to bridge
the s.. Louis river between Conner's and
Rice's Points-sn Act that was part and par
eel of the Washburn compromises compro-
mise that had utterly failed of any good to
Superior, and which it was the determination
of our people to set aside as being without
law and without benefit, so far as Superior
travention of an express law of the State of
Wisconsin, which distinctly forbds this very
thing.
This was asked for several reasons: Among
others, congressional, executive and other
outside interference, had already on three
several occasions set aside pending suits,
whereby we had hoped to get our rights in
the harbor controversy; and as we were ask
ing our Legislature to give us one more trial
for the protection of our harbor, it was very
necessary that the State of Wisconsin should
protest against any further congressional in
reference, overriding her laws, for fear the
fourth suit might be met by some action
legalizing the outrages already committed.
Then again, the prospect seemed fair that
very shortly two or three Of Wisconsin's most
important railroads would make connections
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proved February II, 1874.
CHAPTER 50.

Published February "a, 1871
An ACT to provide for town wells in certain
cases
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sen ed in senate and assembly, do enact as
folio rs:
Section /. At the annual town meeting of
any town in the counties of Ashland Bay
field, Douglas and Juneau, in the state of
Wisconsin, it shall be lawful for majority
of the electors to vote a tax upon the taxable
property of the town not exceeding the sum
Of five hundred dollars for any one year,
which sum shall be used in boring or digging
and maintaining one or more wells in said
town, which shall be town wells and free to
every inhabitant Of said town.
Sec. .. The said tax shall be levied and
collected in the same manner as other town
taxes are levied and collected.
Sec. 8. The said wells shall be bored or
dug under the supervision of the supervisors
of the town, and shall be located by them.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publica-
ton.
Approved, Feb. 81, 1874
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LATER

Madison, Wis, Feb. 90 The
land grant bills came up in the as
sembly this evening under special
order. Several amendments were
adopted Alter a heated discussion
the subject was made the special
order for tomorrow morning at
eleven o'clock, at which time an i'm
portant amendment to the Wiscon-
sin railway bill viii De offered. !
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THE LIND GRANT At NADLSON

THE LAND GRANT At MADISON.
The affiiiation of the North Wis.
consin and Chicago and Northern
Pacific Air Line companies upon one
bill in our State Senate, resulted in
its passage by that body without a
dissenting vote At first the former
company was very averSe to any
division Of the grant, and was prob
ably induced to give its consent in
order to strengthen itself for the
great struggle that was to come
when the bill reached the Assembly.
The bill as it passed the Senate
and as reported in favor of by ma
jority of the Railroad Committee Of
the Assembly, gives that portion of
the grant from Hudson to the juno
rion and from the latter point to
Bayfield,, to the North Wisconsin,
and from the junction to Superior
about so miles to the Chicago and
North Pacific Air Line road.
The Senate bill requires the North
Wisconsin to build forty miles the
first year and twenty miles each
year thereafter, and that the Air
Line road shall be completed to the
Junction by the time the North
Wisconsin reaches that point BY
this means giving Superior a road
rwo or three years earlier than if
the whole road was in the hands of
one company. In case of failure by
the Air Line road. then the grant to
revert to the North Wise onsin.
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MARINA.

.~iAIrlr .1-' 4 flfN
when the sunlight, paling.
,a.5s sinks 10 ne shsds unysllipg. fUll
And the ntfaI zephyr walls along
Then In sadness dropping.
shadows o'vr me stoopins.
Listen TO Oceans mournfnl son:.
n4r.r rhsas paAniom mAlisn, 5rrr
Rise. ROO her Siiiss.s,SSS.d tomb;
Nsr her ssA shrond. tangled,
CrystAl-gsmned. besrangiei.
.vslls with snvious roof her radiant houic'.
Thoush Nsrqne.an sarses
Chant her sndlsss dirges.
And the ecfaI wraps hss beanteoa. form;
rhsu.h the see a, mph nightly
1lF Nv the -esianp, brightly,
Shields her nom the ha'se'mskhs s'o'm'
Though 10 dsaihfsi .lumser,
IIssdless Of the nnmbsr,
NH % tears by weeping pity shed:
senseicss to devotion.
Msaldsrins In The ocean,
With the silent army Of the dead;
-1T ss,ui for Ore. MafiaA q Tie A8
Grisf shall dow the kesner,
Since 70 Y. al.,re..s- ,hss ar, dame;
A.d xeird ineies utter,
rhsn to thss uystie voice shali come,
son ssa-slf mssning-
-Vasished iffs sioning.
meaning TO thy shade . -ai refrain,
Lew - zsphyrp, sighinx,
In the palm replying
To each plalnt that murmurs IRON the main.
or the tone undylng.
In the sea-ehell lying
Serpentfslded on the silvery shore;
Rife with tender feeling.
In each whisper stsaiing.
Thou shalt know how deeply thee, Marias,
denlOrr