The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1890-12-13
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS.

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EXCHANGES.
The diphtheria plague has about
subsided at Trout Greek.
The Pick & Axe, Of Bessemer, enter
ed upon its sixth year last week.
The Michieamme co. discharged
about rs men last Tuesday.
Nels Nelson was killed by fall Of
ground in the Colby mine last Fri
day.
Marquette has abandoned her ice
palace scheme this winter. SO has st.
Paul.
Outside capitalists are picking up odd
tracts OF hardwood lands which can be
had at low figures.
The Torch Lake Times has been sued
for libel by d. l.. Demmon, who places
the damages to his reputation at $10,-
600.
Capt. James Chynoweth, formerly of
the Mass mine, has been appointed sup
erintendent of the National, at Rock
land.
Nearly 200 men were laid off at the
Volunteer mine last Saturday reduc-
tion of more than two-thirds of the
working force.
A drunken row occurred in lumber
camp about three miles from Ironwood
in which George Riggs, a dumb man,
was killed by d. Gray. Gray has been
arrested.
Ishpeming citizens have contributed
81, 900 for the purpose OF having a"ski"
tournament at that city. The date OF
the tournament has not yet been an
nounced.
Ameeting of the stockholders of the
Michigan Gold CO., is called for Jan. 6,
'91. to be held at the Office of Peter
White, Marquette. A building is now
being erected at the mine for, the new
compressor plant.
Conrad Carlson's investment at Rat
Portage is turning out well. Assays Of
quartz yield all the way from $14 to 5000
in gold to the ton. A party of Bessem-
er capitalists have formed company to
work the mine.
Editor Wilson, of the Torch Lake
Times has retained Don. M. Dickenson,
of Detroit, to defend him in the libel
suit brought by d. L. Demmon. Will
son don't propose to lay down and let
the Franklin mine boss walk oil over
him.
A company is being organized to
work copper vein, q few miles south.
west of Superior. The find is supposed
to be on the line between the copper
and iron formations of the Upper Pen
insula and is thought to be valuable
| Current.
Great Ceasar but won't Escanaba
papers kick. This is what the Detroit
Journal says of the town: well, well,
well, lot of capitalists are trying to
get franchise for an electric street
railway in Escanaba. Escanaba has
less than 5000 inhabitants, Detroit,
2O7, 7,OOO."
The big mill started at Trout Greek
by Wing & Co., is at standstill owing
to some dissatisfaction on the part Of
the company with some of the arrange
ments made concerning their opening ur
there. The dam is nearly finished but
work has been suspended on that also
1t is announced that the rumpus viii
result in the extension of the Milwau
kee, Lake Shore & Westerns interior
branch from Interior to Trout Greek
about ten miles, giving that road an
other junction with the South Shore
The business of the new mill will war
rant the extension. Mining Journal.
Brave Capt. Joseph Roberts, who &C
nobly risked his life in the attempt to
rescue the young man Williams who
was suffocated at the time Of the burn.
ing of the North Tamarack No. shaft
last spring, and who was at the time
brought up apparently lIfeless from the
effects Of the deadly gas, has succum-
bed to the fate which now and then be-
falls those who delve in our mines.
About 8 o'clock Wednesday morning
the captain went down No. 3 shaft in
the empty bucket, getting off at the
stump or fork about sixty feet from the
1 bottom OF the shaft. When the bucket
had been filed with rock by the m pers
in the bottom and was ascending Cap
tain Roberts jumped on the crosshead
without giving signal to the engineer
on the surface to let him know that he
| was riding on it. When the bucket got
to the surface he was found in it O
corpse, his head having been crushed be-
| kwaan tha timbera and the eross l1oad