The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-01-27
BADGER GOSSIP.

800 SoONI1 pIOuUceS O,UoU UhtICAS
OF cranberries annually.
q. L. *. KERR, lumberman on the
Elk river. banked one million feet of
ioes In thlrty-nine days with crew of
thirteen men.
LIE clark county tax title cases have
been decided In favor of the county.
An appeal to the Supreme Court will be
taken.
kUNIGUNDE," is the name a New
Holsteln couple gave to their daughter.
1t is needless to say they came from
across the ocean.
SPRINKLERs are now used in the
pineries, by which the snow in the roads
are wetted sufficiently to freeze and
make good sleighing for heavy loads.
AN eighteen year-old boy living at
Arcadia, Wis.,, forged wheat checks to
the amount of fifty dollars, but was
caught and obliged to return the money
before he had an opportunity to spend
it.
The Waupun -four mills are again
under way. They are now the property
of VIM. Simpson, he having taken them
on mortgage, and are being run by
his son, Alec Simpson, who has lately
returned from Nebraska.
A RESIDENT of Rosendale heard, as
he thought, burglar at the front door.
He got up quickly, procured his revol-
yer, and fired number of shots. The
next morning he got up expecting to
find tracks of burglar. On opening
the office door there lay upon the floor
quantity OF minute wood chips and
dead mousel
HE st. Croix Lumber Company will
put in 100000 feet of logs on the
Namakagon, and 100000 feet On the
Moose, this winter, running five camps.
HE Treasurer in the town of Flam-
beau, Chippewa county, has issued the
past season $50, 900 in town orders.
Taxes IN Flambeau are So for
the 40 acres, and orders from that Sec
ton are as thick in the market as ants
at their domestic tabernacle. The
Treasurer signs his name in very
simple way, and is "making his mark
IN more ways than one.
j. 6. b. ROBERTS, chief engineer.
and j. W. Remington, assistant, of the
West Wisconsin Railway, are now out
on the line looking out route for the
next twenty miles of the North Wiscon-
sin road. 1t is said the company intend
to locate the line Immediately, and to
let contracts to clear the timber.
THE creditors of G. Combs, boot and
shoe merchant of Ripon, have instituted
proceedings in bankruptcy against him.
Liabilities about $4,000; assets, S., 900.
A mortgage for about $40, 500 is being
foreclosed on the mills of G.. T. Shep
acd & Co., and the First National Bank
is about foreciosing mortgage on A.
W. Petitioners block.
A FIRE broke out in q frame dwelling
belonging to Alanson Mcintyre, at
Winneconne, on Tuesday, originating
from defective fue. The fire burned
rapidly, and consumed the entire build
ing. The contents were partially saved.
Loss on building, 81 500; on contents,
$500. The dwelling was insured in the
Madison Mutual for 81 400.
A YOUNG man named Thomas Tracy,
aged about twenty-five years, died at
Robert Schofeld's, at Eau Claire last
Friday, of scarlet fever. He was o
stranger in the place, and when he
I haa oSaiz Iali
formation could be ascertained of his
former home or friends. kilograms
were sent to several persons he men
toned in his rawlings, but brought no
answer.
The Menominee Herald man has been
up to section 80, the point at which the
Menominee Iron Range branch will
strike the G. & N. W. R'y, and we con-
de2se the following facts from an article
in that paper: The contractors have
200 men at work and are getting more
daily. Most of them are at work on the
first cut, so rods west Of the main line.
The first eight miles IS apparently bot
tomless swamps and the track will be
built across this winter. laying the
track over the swamps upon cob work
and then filing in with dirt taken from
the cuts and hauled by train. Many
buildings are going up at "32." An
average of 500 men will be employed
during the winter. A large smount of
iron is already on the ground and track
laying hiss commenced.
A LITTLE boy sen of @. H. Churchill,
of Shawano, had been in the habit of
taking a "short cut" in going to
school. Last Friday he did not re-
turn frcm school, and search was made
in the woods. He was found the next
day, the entire neighborhood having
turned out in the search The body
was found nearly three miles from the
child's home. 1t seemed that shortly
after losing the path the child struck
logging road and followed it directly