The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-07
The superior Times.
SUPERIOR, FRIDAY. APRIL, 7, 1876
Superiorisms.

having closed for weeks vacation.
Election day this spring was
very much like that of last spring, snow
falling all day long.
The new railroad bridge at
Brainerd was completed Friday, and submit
ted to severe trial.
The election, Tuesday passed
of quietly, as usual. The official vote will
be found in another column.
"A bill changing the time for
choosing County Superintendent of Schools
from the fall to the spring election, was pass
ed at the late session, and is now law.
The skating rink at D uluth has
been torn down. Too much open winter and
consequently too much good skating on the
lake were the causes of its collapse
Material has been shipped for
the Black Hills Tribune. 1t will be printed
by X. S. Burke, late of The Perham News,
and Col. Lounsberry, of The Bismarck Tri-
bune.
We present our readers with
an interesting story, this week, entitled ''Tax
Sale, Douglas County" With that and the
laws on the inside, our readers will not lack
for interesting Sunday reading
August Zachau, Esq, started
two loads of goods, on Wednesday, for bis
trading post at vermillion. He also expects
to start load for his trading post at Bad
River in day or two.
Mr.. NJ. J. Forbes, formerly of
the firm of Woodbridge & Forbes, Duluth,
has returned to that city after two months,
visit with relatives in Boston. He is now
book keeper for c. B. Newcomb & Co.
Rev. Father Genin passed
through town Friday night on his way home
from Bayfield,. Now we suppose we shall see
something done in regard to the opening of
that Duluth copper vein.
L. T. Slayton, E. Bruno, Ron
aid Mccormick Ike Nault, John Bertrand,
.. Gouge and many other Of our townsmen
who have been at work in the lumber camps
this winter returned home last week
Capt. Geo. Greenfield departed
Monday for Cheboygan, Mich, where he
goes to take charge of the same tug of which
he was car tain last summer. The captain
anticipates an early opening of navigation.
Investigation is the order of the
day. At the town meeting Tuesday morning
August Zachau, A c. Brown and Thompson
Richie were appointed committee to exam
inc the report of the Town Board of Snper
visors, it being asserted by many at the
meeting that there are irregularities in it.
John Drew, Esq, the merchant
tailor of Duluth, was elected Mayor of that
city on Tuesday by majority of thirty over
our old friend Peter Dean, the Democratic
candidate. Fl. n Setter, Democratic candi-
date for alderman in the 4th ward was also
beaten.
Mr.. Chas. Wsnzer, formerly
of Bayfield,, was in town Thursday. He is in
the employ of Isaac Staples. Mr.. Wanzer,
accompanied by Mr.. Thomas Shells, of this
place, departs tomorrow Saturday morning
on two months trip through the woods,
expecting to fetch up at Saltwater
The friends of Mr. r. G. Mitch
ell, of the Duluth Tribune, will regret to
learn of his bereavement in the death of his
father, who died at Logansport, Ind, after
lingering illness. He was rs years old.
Mr. Mitchell and wife were on their way to
visit him, but failed to arrive before his
death.
The Hacker House has been
lively this week with large parties of lumber
men who were en- route for the drive on the
St Croix, sojourning there for day or two
-OtdpltS iuLuOeI Chulp S Oh the OF. CTOlG
"broke up" the first of the week and large
parties of lumbermen passed through town
this week on their way below.
Very significant At the Re-
publican City Convention held in Duluth
last week, one of the delegates nominated c.
P. Bailey for Mayor, on account of his being
posted in winding up bankrupt institutions.
(hr. B. having already wound up" two Of
their banks insinuating that they would oil
soon have to be wound up in that way.
The snow storm which visited
this region Tuesday extended as far west as
Bismarck, where four inches of snow fell.
Itfeli TO depth offour inches here while out
on the Bayfield, road, toward the Rrule Riv-
er, 1t fel! to depth Of eighteen inches A snow
storm also prevailed in the New England
States. The snow in this region vas what
is called "squaw,' or sugar, snow.
No definite information has vet