The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-18
CONFIDENTIAL POINTERS.

broken window which was temporarily
covered with paper, and did damage To
the extent knew not. My heart jumped
into my throat in jifiy as thought
possibly some OF the Florence business
men had gone through the place and se-
cured all OF its valuable contents. My
first move was TO ascertain IL the office
towel was in its accustomed place--it was
there. standing in the corner where left
il the night before Then cnsting my
eyes about the office they rested on sew
eral "sticks" on the cases. The sticks"
contained type putinto readable form as
follows:
Ed. Berry, II. +. Tuten, Il. B. Catlin,
r. u. Brewster and John Saving all from Iron
Mountain, crawled through ~ broken window IN
the DRILL Office last Tuesday morning, inter
viewed the Office eat and retired In good order
Catlin says Dr. Butts can't pitch ball
for sour apples
We beat em.
The two first items were probably set
up 10y Mr.. Tnten and the little one for "a
cent was made by Mr.. Berry. am very
sorry was not at the Office to unlock
the door and welcome you, gentlemen,
very sorry. Next time you intend maxi
ing an early call give me notice.
In reading the last issue OF
WE'LL the Iron County Reporter,
NOT learn from that source that
FIGHT Mr.. 0'Brien, it's affable ed
itor, ls considerably exercised
over what he terms movement on the
part OF this end of the county to secure
all Of the county elective Offices and fur
ther states that il will not support any
ticket that gives to one side of the county
a monopoly of all OF the offices and IL
gives "Bro. Atkinson and other Repub-
licans of the east side OF the county"
fair warning To that effect. The cause
for all this was "A small item in my paper
OF July 2S, in which / mentioned the
names OF several gentlemen at this end
OF the county who are desirous OF receiv-
ing nominations for the several county
offices. Iron River will Of course have
it's aspirants; but one thing is certain all
OF them cannot be elected. Don't be
quite soexciteble, Mr.. O'Brien, do not
want the earth nor all of the county Of
fees after the manner you mention.
Just lay low and you will find that the
people OF Crystal Falls are about as
square dealing, honest and upright as in
any other part OF the county. We will
wage war with no one, much less during
a campaign when SO much is at stake.
Geo. Reuter-, the Iron Noun
BIG tain fireman, tells some awful
FISH stories. During arecent visit
STORY to that city overheard him
telling this TO summer Wis.,
itor: "Oh, yes, fish are very plentiful in
the lakes and rivers hereabouts. IL was
only the other day went fishing in the
Menominee river and had made several
catches, when my boat was capsized by "a
fish scratching his back on the bottom OF
il. / espied saw log floating down
stream near me M fioundered about In
tut Wtbcf iui ~ OhtE ntideh Vhb WI ~
and you can imagine my surprise when
on coming up to il, discovered IL was
not n log, but young pickerel who was
giving his back n sun bath" AS soon as
the listener revived sufficiently he pur-
chased ticket To Chicago and left the
city by the next train.
Who is IL that does not well
THE come his home paper above
HOME all other newspapers2 We
PAPER always read that paper first
whose contents we are already
the most familiar with. The correspon-
dent who writes an article for news
paper invariably reads his own COM
municatio before any other, when the
paper falls into his hands, not that he
expects TO find any change or alteration
from his manuscript, but because there
In sort OF charm about seeing how his
own words and thoughts look when they
appear IN print. II a reader could be
assured before seeing his local paper,
that he was already acquainted with