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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-02-10
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BERSTEIN.
DULUTH.

the legislature bill which provides
that all town officers shall be able
to read and write English, and be
otherwise qualified to do their duties.
If any man not so qualified shall
take Office he shall be fined and
jailed. Such person can be brought
before justice of the peace, court
commissioner or circuit judge, for
examination.
Judge I. w. Gatescan bear;witness
to the old adage that misfortunes
never come singly. His only sister
died on the 25th of December, his
mother on the 18th, and his father
on the 18th of January. They re-
sided, we believe, in New Hamp-
shire, the early home of the Judge,
who in his sad bereavement has the
sympathy of a large circle of friends.
Postmaster w. R. Perry re-
ceived telegram on Tuesday that
his son DR.. w. w. Perry was lying
at the point Of death at his home
in Hancock, Mich. On Thursday
he was telegraphed that the Doctor
was much better and consldere
ont of danger. DR.. Perry has new
er recovered from the effects of an
assault made upon him at night
two or three years ago by an I'M
known and cowardly ruffian.
james III. Clark OF Taylor's
Falls, has contract to furni sh
Seymour Sabin & Co. of Saltwater.
lumber for the wood work of 800
threshing machines, which the COM
pany are to construct this year.
Polk county has thousands of acres
of hardwood timber which is suit
able for manufacturing purposes
and as the prairie portions of the
west become settled the demand
for this timber will be increased
Polk County Press.
A man named Ole Oleson, a
Swede, was severely if not fatally
injured by falling tree at Staples
numbering camp on the Moose on
Thursday last. He was brought
to town in an insensible condition
and his wounds dressed by Dr.
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Graham. His head was cut and

Graham. His head was cut and
bruised and one shoulder seemed to
be injured. As blood oozed from
his mouth, nose and ears it is feared
his head is injured internally. He
was carried away on the train Fri
day morning to his friends who re-
side near Marine, on the St. Croix.
Mr.. Oleson is said to be a single
man, and the owner of farm near
Hudson.
A PEiRILoUs ADVENTURE AND
NARROW EscAPE.-Capt- Robert
Thompson and his son Robert w.
had an exciting adventure and
narrow escape on the lake on
Tuesday last. They had a line
of fish hooks set in the ice
near its outer edge about two
miles off Duluth, which they started
out to examine, taking with them
their large dog and a hand sled.
About a mile out they came to a
long crack in the ice, several inches
wide, and as the day was warm and
a strong off-land breeze prevailing,
if was deemed prudent for the old
gentleman to stay and watch the
opening while Bob proceeded on
ward to look at the hooks. The
latter had gone but few rods when
the former shouted to him to return
instantly, that the ice had parted
between them and the shore and
was rapidly moving down the lake.
They ran for dear life to the edge
of the break, and finding the opening
already too wide for them to jump
across, ran for some distance along
its edge in the hope of finding some
narrower place in the assure or of
being able to get around it. But
their hopes were vain. The ice
they were on seemed to be detac he'd
from the main body for miles, and
was gliding slowly but surely down
the lake. No time was to be lost.
Resolutions had to be formed quick
ly. Bob having strip ped off his
ontside clothing, plunged into the
water and swan across the opening,
now about forty feet wide, taking in
his hand line attached to the h and
sled. The Capt. had no time in
which to take off his boots or heavy
clothing, as the line in Bob's hand
barely reached across, so be threw
himself on the sled and padded
over, assisted by Bob with the
line. Being a corpuleDt man, and
of somewhat advanced age, he re-
gained the firm ice with difficulty.
They were not long in reaching
their home and having changed
their clothing seemed to be none
the worse for their cold bath, and
altogether very dangerous ad-
venture.
Both being men of resolution, old
sailors, experienced to danger, and
withal, good swimmers caused
them to adopt the desperate alterna-
tive of swimming forty feet in the
icy water, or of taking the doubtful
chances of being seen from the
shore and rescued by boats. Few
would have had the courage to
plunge in as they did, but they
stopped not to count the chances.
and were saved. Their dog refused
to take to the water and was carried
off on the ice.
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Local Directory,
Postmaster at Superior, w. R. Perry.
Collector Port of Superior, W. R. Perry.
Collector q. S. Revenue, /. w. Gates.

~~S'SAoS, \. W. 0dtSS.
County Judge, Geo. W. Perry.
District Attorney, James s. Richie.
Sheriff, Victor Desimval.
County Treasurer, James Bardon.
Clerk of the Circuit Court, B. F. Greeley,
County CLERK, Richard Ref.
Register of Deeds, James Syer.
Coroner, L. F. Wheelock.
County Surveyor, Emerson Chase.
superintendent of Schools, |. w. Gates
Court Commissioner, Richard Relf.
County Board of Supervisors, w. Gran
well. chairman, James S. Richie, V. Cour-
meyer.
Town of Superior, constituting the County
of Douglas.
Justices of the Peace, l.. F. Wheelock and
A. G. Brown.
Town Treasurer Geo. F. Holcomb.
Town Clerk, Antoine Cadotte.
Assessor, w. Cranwell.
School Board, District No. One, Jas. New
ton, director; James Collier, treasurer, and
James Bardon, clerk.
District No. Two, A. Soderlund, direc-
tor; |. w. Gates, treasurer, and VIM. Kim
ball, clerk.
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SUMMONS.
srd o11nt OF Of WISCONSIN, Circuit Court
JAMES BARDON Plaintiff

AGAINST
WILLIAM Fl. NEWTON and DANIEL McRATN
ct al, Defendants.
To the Defendants.
You are hereby summoned and required to answer
the complaint in this action, which will be filed in
the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for
the County of Douglas, at the Town of Superior and
to serve copy of your to the said COMPLAINT
on the SUBSCRIBER at his Office in the town of Snna
rior within twenty days after the service of this
vice; and il you fail to the said comnIant
within the time aforesaid the PLAINTIFF in this &C.
ton will apply to the Court for the relief demanded
upon you.
Dated December q, 1876
TH0S CLARK.
Jano-7t, Plaintiffs Attorney
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BUSINESS CARDS.

Paws taxes for non-resident5 in all the
Northern Counties, examines Titles. and an
swers all inquiries relating to real estate.
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WHAT PAYS !?

II PAYS every Manufacturer, Merchant, Mechanic,
i inventor, Farmer, or Professional man, to keep
informed on all the improvements and discoveries
of the age.
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1865 g and u, and held the office
of Clerk of the Circuit Court during
portion of the time. He served
through the war in the 18th Reg't.
Michigan Volunteers, enlisting as a
private, and attaining the rank OF
Captain. On leaving here in 1867
he returned to his old home in st.
Joseph, Mich, where he married,
and when we last heard from him,
about two years ago, occupied the
position of cashier in one of the
banks of that city. Capt. Plat
was a man of good qualities, and
the news of his death will be re-
ceived with sadness by his old
friends.
Something is the matter with
the mails between here and the
East. Several of our citizens have
lost valuable letters, containing
tax receipts, drafts, etc. within the
past month. On what particular
route the trouble occurs we are un-
able to say, but that irregularities
exist somewhere there is no
doubt.
From the fact that mail matter
from Chicago and beyond is fire.
quently five or six days old when it
reaches here, we have an idea that
the route agents in the southern
part of the State send our mail up to
Ashland, whence it is returned over
the Central and comes around by
the West Wisconsin to St. Paul.
We may be wrong in this inference,
but recent delays of letters warrant
us in charging mismanagement
somewhere.
The West Wisconsin in the
past year carried 1905 tons of
freight, and $4,000 passengers. Its
gross earnings are reported at $685.
S73. The improvementsin Baldwin
for 1876 foot up $4,000. Until the
West Wisconsin railway was built
there wasn't house in the town,
which now numbers nearly or quite
one thousand persons.
A New SAVING INSTITUTIONAL
would respectfully remind all those
that need anything in Dry Goods
&c. to call at my store for the next
thirty days, as | offer goods, in or
der to reduce my stock for the spring
trade, at prices that they cannot be
bought for in New York to-day. I
mean business and | warrant every
thing lower than ever.
Respectfully,
B. SILBERsTEIN.
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his paper is kept on file in the Office of
L. F. Booth, General Eastern Agent, Chicago
& North Western Railway, 4l5 Broadway,
New York City. Our friends, when in New
York, are cordially invited to call in and read
it at any time. They will always be welcome.
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Summer is coming.
Look out for mosquitoes.
Spring fever prevails here to an
alarming extent.
Weather cool enough to be
comfortable these mornings.
William Crawford is re-shing-
ling his residence.
"A fresh stock of Men'sW omen 8
and Children's Rubbers at Brooks
Dead beats, potato bugs and
grasshoppers are the plaques of the
western CountIy.
Vincent Roy forwarded lot
Of merchandise to his trading post
at Vermilion Lake this week.
-Bleached and unbleached cot
ton cloths and sheetings at New
York wholesale prices, at
SILBERsTEINs, Duluth.
The wood business at the head
of the lake is all but suspended; as
the roads are so bad no more wood
can be hauled out.
We are glad to see Mr. A. c..
Brown upon the street again. He
has had quite long siege ofillness,
but is now rapidly gaining strength.
The 14th of February is Ash
Wednesday, also st. Valentines
Day, and the date fixed by the con-
stitution for counting the electoral
vote. Religion, love and politics.
The road on the ice between
Conner and Rice's Points is con-
sidered unsafe, and teams again
make the wide circuit on St. Louis
Bay.
John McF arland, an old settler,
who has been engaged the past two
or three years in "nursing" several
rich silver veins discovered by him
on the North Shore. is stopping in
town for a few days.
The School Board of District
No. l are endeavoring to make ar
rangements to improve and fence in
the grounds around the graded
school building. We hope they
may succeed, as this Improvement
has been too long neglected.
We have received the first
number of the Wadena Real Estate
Journal, published by our old friend
S. S. Gardner, ostensibly as an aid
to his real estate business; but a
man up tree would get an idea
from the numerous hints and allu.
sions it contained that a prime OBJ.
ject of the editor was to get even
with somebody. Barring the per-
sonalities, the paper is we'll written
and bids fair to do valuable service
for Wadena and the whole North
ern Pacific country.
GOOD NEws.-I desire to inform
the good people of Superior that ]
have this week received a NEW
STOCK of Spring Prints, Ginghams
Dress Cambrics, Percales and many
other choice goods which, having
bought for CASH I am able to sell al
lowest living prices.
Please call and examine.
L. HEGARDT.
Duluth Feb. 6, 1877.
The North Shore mail is now
carried IN open boats between Du
luth and Pigeon River, 16O miles
The mail carrier on the last trip ur
informs us that he saw no ice what
ever in the lake till he reached
Duluth, where only a square mile o.
two still fingers in the outer harbor
The TIMES is now publishes
simultaneously in London, Paris
Rome and Superior; and if the citi
zens of Stockholm, st. Petersburg
and other foreign capitols study
their true interest and accept ouI
liberal propositions it will not be
long before their respective town:
will take rank with the four grea
cities of the world-those frs
mentioned. We will hint no further
at our plans, as the Houghton Min
mo Gazette and the Polk Co. Press
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-29

GARFIELD is the leader of the HAYES
Administration in the House. He
was a member of Congress and voted
for the bill which furnished the mo-
ney out of the Federal Treasury to
lay the wooden pavement on Penn
sylvania Avenue, out of which Boss
SHEPPARD and the Ring made their
first big pile of money. He does not
deny, because it has been proven up
on him, that he got from the Ring
$1,000 cash for his services-but he
says that was not a "bribe," it was
only an Attorneys feel" BLAINE,
after assailing, is now leading the
HAYES policy in the Senate. Under
a charge of bribery, he secured from
the witness who held them, his own
letters containing the evidence of his
guilt, refused to give them up, and
submitted only copies of such ex-
tracts from them as he was willing
the committee should see, and then,
feigning sickness, ran off LONE to
prevent the committee from going
any further with their Investigations,
and there the matter now stands.
These two men-GARFIELD and
BLA1NE-are proper leaders of an AID
ministration whose head is affixed to
il by fraud.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-29

The recent election in New Hamp-
shire, resulted in the election Of one
Democratic and two Republican Con-
gressmen. This completes the cleo
ton for members of the Forty-fifth
Congress, which will stand, allowing
the Republicans all they claim in
South Carolina, Florida and Loui-
siana, one hundred and forty-nine
Democrats to one hundred and forty
four Republicans. 1t is understood,
however, that Mr.. Adams, the clerk
of the House, will refuse, to put upon
the roll the names of several Repub-
licans from the States above named,
where Democrats claim the seats, so
that it is probable that the Democrats
will have a majority of fifteen at the
organization of the House.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-29
THE COMPULSORY EDUCATION
Law,

The Ohio Legislature has passed
what is known as the compulsory
Education Bill. The bill, as passed,
is modified greatly from the one we
recently published. As a compulso-
ry measure the bill may safely be
said to be a great failure, and if
contested, will prove a dead letter
on the Statute books. The passage
of the bill was made a party measure,
and in order that it might pass
without opposition within the party,
it was shorn of its Compulsory feat
ures. The Gin. Times, which has
advocated the passage of the bill,
thus alludes to it:
ats compulsion is not excessive.
1t starts out with requiring the child,
between certain years, aid for a GER
tain time each year, to attend the
public schools; and prohibits his
business employment for the same
time. But it provides for material
exceptions to both provisions: LIST,
when the child is physically incapac-
itated for study; End, when it has
already acquired "the branches of
learning ordinarily taught IN COM
mon schools" Sd, when it is under
private instruction; 4th, when it re-
lies on its own efforts for support;
and 9Th, when its labor is necessary
to the support of its parents or rela-
tives. 1t is as clear as a mountain
brook that these exceptions will in
clude, or be made to include, all chill
dren whose parents do not wish them
to attend school. The compulsory
effect of the law is, therefore, practic-
ally null. 1t has none. Il
But there is another feature of the
bill upon which we look with very
considerable anxiety. 1t is the
fourth section which provides that
when "the parent or guardian has
not the means wherewith to purchase
for his child or children the necessary
school books to enable them to COM
ply with the requirements of this
act, such Board is hereby author
lied to furnish such books free of
charge, the same to be paid for out of
the contingent funds ct the disposal
of such Board of Education" The
spirit of this is unquestionably right;
the practice of it may be desperately
wrong. 1t is a temptation to hosts
of parents and guardians to declare
that they "have not the means"
1t is a great temptation to book con-
Germs to grow rich out Of the public
school fund; and it is a sore tempta-
ton to school officers tolend an ear to
their insinuating pleas-to secure
their favor and influence, if not to 60
into the schools" with them. It is
a provision that will bear close
watching it is the only dangerous
feature of the bill. 4.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-29

New York San: While Hayes has
been filling the representatives ofthe
Nichols Government with promises
he has also been taking Warmoth's
opinion upon the way in which the
Louisiana question should be settled.
Warmoth recommends that the Re-
turning Board Legislature, which
has a Republican majority of twelve
on joint ballot, meet and canvass the
votes for Governor. He thinks the
Democrats ought to be willing to
walk into this fytrap, because there
are at least seven or eight of these
Returning Board Legislators who are
unfriendly to Packard, and who could
be relied upon for a "fair count."
The Nichols party in Louisiana, as
well as the country at large, r very
decided in the notion hat there has
already been too much counting since
November. Joe Bradley and Mac
Wells have made it tolerably clear
that a Republican majority on a
board may be safely de,
pended upon to figure out a majority
of the votes for the Republican can.
didate. Nichols is already the de
.tacto Is well as de jure Governor Of
Louisiana.