Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-22


are tines when John Bull. Jr., like
John Bull, ST., expects every man
and woman to do has duty. Last w,eh
was the special time when the Jr
Bnll expected to see his expectations
,ealized. so We HE'D onrself to Ash
.,ld. with the United States in ou
,tchel. Putting ourself under IT,
IRE Of Con luctur Sheehan Of the Y,
Road, than whom there never h.
zen more faithful AMI dili.ent Co
.ctor In the employ of the compan
reached junction City in season
Ike the Wise. Central train for /
New Wisconsin Conductor Rhnie~
checked US through after despoiling
our little thousand mile book of sur
lrv tickets. At Spencer we stopped
IF at the Norton House. with Tomael
). Norton, proprietor, who always
opens a key of nails, or dracs few
oranges for the stsmachs sake for his
friends We found at Spencer. our
good boy. Henry MeClatchie, measur-
idy dry goods with an OK gsad and
selling syrups by the cubic inch, and
making himself generally useful COR
his employers. He has good look
out and We were glad t" see him
prospecting. We found him boy of
the right stamp, so we babe him a
God speed. and wendell our way north
ward in search of Sir John FranklYn.
Reaching Medford in due season,
where We found our old time, tried
and-never-fuu l-wantin., fir end AL
fred Dodge, doing a fair business
We pat up at the Dodge House aud
don't regret it to this day An even
ings chat, and recountinS OF old
times. founi Us up at ii . ;lock, but
at l. = the noon of might've were
dreaming. no We diint dream "a
cents worth, and when Mr. ID asked
us in the morning how We had slept.
we toll her we had no recollection OF
sleep at all, nevertheless ,0c hn1 been
abed, and We're not civurtns with AL
fred around the suburbs Of Medtord
| The 2 NJ. train bore us again north
ward looking for Frank.yn Away
we went past new made farms AMI
openings upon which the snow lay in
spots just frequent en- ugh to make u
loy,ye mad. on past piles of logs upon
the sideways looking like vast barri-
csies, only there was money sticking
out of every knot. We fell in on the
train. not OF, train, with always alive
Upham of Marsilheld whose compln-
| aut parts are fan and '.bnsiness. lie
was e" route Tor BayGellin company
with Attorneys Sloan, son Of 4 Scott
Sloan. and Andersen of the firm of
Jessan & Anderson of Chicago All
! intereste in "A silver mining homestead
claim expedition, so alleged, but we
believe they we're af err Frank lyn's re-
mains. for upon arriving at Butternut.
Uph .m discovered at the supper table
remnant of Polar OK which un-
doubtelly in its vealy dlys was one of
the "expedition.' Upham declared it
must have been handed down. so to
speak. from Noah Ark, aud that the
letters B. c. were on the hide which
he detected ahoH, the premises One
bite of the venerable beas. destined to
pass in its history as hash for the
/ Buttcruuts atta>ted the correctness of
Upham's conclusions Passing over
the long high iron bridges in the mnr-
KY night, and peerin- alowD into the
awful chasms spanned by iron spider
web like structures pnt as all on orr
good behaviour for few minutes, but
once past the irnsning abyss, aud our
excellent department. like good reso-
lutions, [ fear somehow vanished in
thin air, ana we were all boys again
We reached Ashland at $3.50. and at
once wer. lolsei at the Cheqramegon.
which had been puckerel up for win
ter use, but ready to be let ont to its
full measure when the Summer travel
demands Ashland is not prepos-
sessing spp: in the winter The bay
is frozen and the white pecks that tell
of LA Pointe AMI Bayfield, eighteen
| miles away are scarcely visible the long
winter ihrongh The roal across rhe
bay is .'hushel' "a the AsIilan1ers
term il; pine bou.hs being stuck in
straight line at Intervals of abont a
hundred feet alon. the ice highway Tor
a distance Of bout Ave miles, making
"a very eantitnl pictlre, while they
serve as guides to the road in case of
unexpected AMI Devil lering snow
storms