The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-03-24
WISCONSIN NOTES

THERE has beer considerable traffic bv
teams on Chequamegon Bay between
Ashland and Washburn this winter,
but, though the weather is but slightly
milder, it is not safe to cross as the
experience of three outfits on the
18th shows. Two livery rigs started for
Washburn, but went through the ice
and remained there several hours be-
tween the first and second formations
a space of four feet, the lower formation
having been settled by flooding.
THE old saw mill six miles below
Trempealeau was destroyed by fire. The
building was put up thirty years ago.
All the machinery had been taken out,
wears ago, and il had since been the
lodging place of woodchoppers and 9TH
ers.
THE body of Joseph Zumbuehl, a
brewer employed at Schlitz Brewery,
Milwaukee, and who had been missing
for three months, was taken from the
river near Cherry Street bridge IN that
city ON the 18th.
CAPT. SHIELDS used $4,000 pounds of
black powder and 1000 pounds ofdyna-
mite in blasting on his tve-mile CON
tract ON the Freeport, Dodgeville &
Northern Railroad at Dodgeviie.
ASHLAND is soon to have her first brick
school building. The cost Will be about
$4,000.
LOGS cut this season on streams trlbu-
tary to Chequamegon Bay, total s9,oo0,-
600 feet-20 TO % per cent. less than the
cut of last year.
RocKwooD & JOHNSON, the failed Sun
Prairie merchants, have compromised
with majority of their creditors for 40
cents on the dollar.
AT the closing session of the conven-
ton of Republican clubs ut Madison on
the 10th, Senator Spooner was elected
president of the State league, and w. j.
McElroy, of Milwaukee, secretary. The
headquarters were fixed at the latter
place.
A SPECIAL emigrant train, the first of
the season, passed through Milwaukee
on the Chicago, Milwaukee x st. Pau!
Railroad on the 18th. 1t consisted OF
fifteen freight and stock cars, one coach
and one colonists' sleeper. 1t contained
forty-four people, who 90 from Canada
to settle in different parts of Dakota.
The Ashland Press says several per-
sons living in Southern Wisconsin are
looking up sites for summer cottages on
the shores of the bay end, among the
Apostle Islands.
EARLY on the morning of the 10Th the
safe in the Omaha depot at Washburn
was blown open and small amount of
booty secured. The work was done by
Ashland talent-Dan Driscoll and Thos.
Ryan-the latter a notorious young
burglar, who recently "held up" sa-
loon keeper, for which crime he did
time. After blowing the safe the tel-
lows started across ChequamegOn Bay
for Ashland, on the ice, distance of
seven miles. Before they had gone far
they were espied by railway employees,
who informed the officers, and the men
were captured.
The order of Commissioner Atkins to
Indian Agent Gregory commanding him
to put an immediate stop to the telling
of trees on the reservations under his
charge. has created decided sensation
among loggers and others, who realize
that at least fifteen camps VIII be
broken up before they can possibly re-
cover from the setback of the early
winter 1t will throw at least 1000
men, Indians and white, out of en-
ployment, and is as great a hardship to
the Indians as to the white loggers. One
of the Indians who is after Gregory's
scalp at Washington-John Denomme
is logger on the Bad River reserva-
ton and will lose everything ne has got,
Both sides in the controversy are cOnse-
quently hurt-and hit hardly the
order.
f. V. HoLsToN, of Bayfield,, sold $780,
600 feet of lumber to Kansas City COM
pany.
THE Rood & Maxwell mill plant at
Washburn viii be put in operation as
soon as Messrs. Walker u Rowlands, of
the Walkup Lumber Company, obtain
possession of it.
TIE Rev. X. L. Cheney, of Prairie du
Chen, has resigned the pastorate of the
Congregational Church to serve IN the
state missionary service.
TIE Ashland News reports that the
Indians on the Odanah reservation are
making extensive preparations for man
ufacturing maple sugar soon. They will
probably make about $1,000 pounds of
the sweet stuff.
+. c. JoPP, a school teacher in Barron
County, while walking from Rice Lake
10 Clear Lake was chased by wolves,
and IN his flight was obliged to throw
away his overshoes and overcoat in or
der to make time. Fortunately for him,
he had tin horn which he was taking
to the city to have changed for neigh
Dor, and whenever the wolves got un-
comfortably near he would blow the
horn, when they would stop and he
would run again, until he finally reached
his destination.
By vote Of 90 to 3, the Eau Claire
County Board adopted resolution con
senting that the district attorney ask
leave of the county court to enter a nolle
in the action for embeZZlement of the
state against Louis Strum, the eX-county
treasurer who defaulted to the extent of
about 5000, but made the deficit good
after going out of Office.
Col. KNIGHT, mayor-elect of Ashland,
not being able to reach home in time,
sent his oath of office by mail. The le-
galitv Of this course is now in question
there, though his friends claim that he
could subscribe to the oath before any
one duly qualified to administer it.
A RED-HoT local war is in progress at
Reedsburg over the location of the new
city hall. engine house and jail The old
building stood on the corner of Market
and Vine Streets, but the proposition to
erect the new brick structure to cost
about 50 900 on this location is being
fought by the First Ward.
TIE Wisconsin Press Association, Mt
its session in Milwaukee elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year:
President, John Hicks, of the Oshkosh
Northwestern; vicc-presidents, First
District, J. E. Killeen, of the kenosha
Union; Second District, Maj. c. II. Pet
tibone, of the Horizon Reporter; Third
District, Capt. W. II. Bennett, of
the Mineral Point Tribune; Fourth
District, l.. W. Nieman, of the Nil
waukee Journal; Fifth District, w. A.
Hume, of the Chiffon Times; Sixth Dis
trict, s. 5. lockwood, of the Portage
Register; Seventh District, Ellis b.
Usher, of the La Crosse Chronicle;
Eighth District, +. J. Flint, Of the Dunn
County News; Ninth District, j. A. Og-
den, Of the Amigo Republican; secre-
tary, F. W. Coon, of the Edgerton To-
bacco Reporter; assistant secretary, A.
c. Harmon, of the Ripon Common
wealth; treasurer, David Atwood, Of the
Madison State Journal.
THE st. Paul Railroad Company has
filed articles with the secretary of state,