The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-01-06

- squire DIOWl Is idptuiy SohNaiSoSii'S.
Mr.. A. E. Phlbrooks talks of opening a
livery stabein this city.
An exchange says the chief business on
Lake Superior this winter will be praeticing
economy
Capt McDougall and Maj. Tyler went
overland to Bayfield, on Thursday with
Golfers team.
The Bayfield, Rifles, Gen Pike, Col.
Boutin, Mai. Tyler, have been ordered to
Coushatra, La.
William Wright, son Of our esteemed
citizen James Wright, Esq, is in California,
and was married lately.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany is getting out $4,000 cords of wood
and 9. 900 ties this winter.
II. Salmon came down town the other
day with but one crutch. His sprained
ankle grows stronger slowly
The lake is covered with ice two to four
inches thick, a circumstance hitherto very
rare so early in the season.
Clear and cold are words that describe
the weather the past week. Twenty-Five
below zero Wednesday morning.
Several prominent Duluthians were in
town this week attending the Moody and
Sankey meetings.
H. NJ Peyton & Co. aIe running two
lumber camps-one on the Brule, South
Shore, and one at Knife River, North Shore
Most of our moneyed men deposit their
funds in the Twentv-third National Bank of
this city. 1t is about as sound as any of our
Banks.
"A. NJ Miller, OF Thomson, will put in
about 100000 feet of logs this winter,
Paine & Co, of the Junction, will put ID
about 5000, 900.
F. Il. Chasseur Esq, the we'll known
horticulturist, who resided here so many
years, is in Denver, Colorado, and is Presl-
dent or DemOCfaUlC CluD III THAI CITY
The goods for the annual payment of
the Bots Forte Indians, to be made about the
18th inst, are being forwarded to Vermilion
Lake by agent Mahan.
Victor Desimva has sold MS mail con-
tract between Superior and Duluth to Mich
olas Welter who now carries the mail and
drives daily stage between the two places.
Seth WILDER Payne, who published the
spicy Norminy Gail in Duluth, in 1869 10, is
now publishing a very interesting paper
called Pap.e's Sunday Press in Jersey City,
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The Black Hills fever is widespread and
violent all along the Northern Pacific r. R.
The daily sight of the genuine metal, gold
and silver, in the hands of parties fresh
from the Hills, only serves to increase the
disease.
The Board of County Commissioners of
St Louis County, held their annual meeting
at Duluth on Tuesday the 2nd inst w. L.
McLennan was chosen Chairman for the year
John Dunphy was formally installed as Judge
of Probate Sam'l C. McQuade as Sheriff, and
D. G. Cash as County Attorney. Geo. Berkel-
man County Auditor elect takes his Office the
first day of March
The Superior TINES has fallen in with
the fashion and changed hands, Bro. C. 5.
Douglas disposing of his interests to Bardon
Bros, of Superior City. The first attempt
under the new management is very credit
able one, and evinces unfailing faith in a
great future fer Superior Bro. Douglas
goes to his home at Beaver Dam, Wis
Farewell r5g-.-Braineyd Tribune.
We are glad to state that Father Genin,
who was quite seriously injured a few weeks
ago by falling from the gallery of the new
church at Bismarck, has so far recovered as
10 be again able to attend to the arduous
labors of his extensive mission He held
Christmas services in Duluth and has now
gone west TO visit the various missions along
the Northern Pacific Railroad
The scarcity of shade trees in our town
is the subject of common remark among
strangers, and evinces a wOefnl lack of taste
in that direction. Our beautiful evergreen
trees always look well. and afford shade from
the hear Of summer as wei! as the cold blasts
of winter Our citizens should adorn their
grounds and the streets with tIees. A
town with an abundance of shade trees at
once attracts and progresses a stranger.
Transactions on the Board of Trade have
been comparatively light this week, and
chiefly confined to staple productions. We
note sales Of 40 cords of tamarae weed at
$3.50 to gentleman named MeIntosh, FROM
Winnipeg, and $50 tons OF ice to New
Orleans party whose name We did not learn.
A mere sctiye market is looked for after the
holidays.
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