The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-02-14
LAIRDITEMS.

A. l.. Ely, township treasurer, was
in Houghton, Tuesday, settling up with
the county treasurer.
Tie bridge over tho Silver river,
recently completed, is credit to the
builder, VIM. M. Peterson.
Archibald Aston is visiting his
brother, J. w. Aston. He comes all
the way from the state OF Washington.
A tall man is sometimes very short,
but the average man is never 40 short,
TINT he cannot buy Old Saul's catarrh
cure to cure himself, when fflicted with
catarrh.
The machinery for saw mill, and
also that necessary for the manufacture
Of fine brick, we understand, is oil its
way to the Aston mine.
The move to have town 49--37 de-
tached from Laird township and form
ed into seperate township is II ceiving
no encouragement from residents here.
In fact we are led to understand that
large percentage of the settlers in town
40--37 itself are opposed to the scheme.
It is the opinion of many that it requires
the five towns composing Laird town
ship to successfully run township
organization, and that the seemingly
absurd idea Of town 40--37, with the
meagcr resources Mt its command, both
for revenue and officers, should not be
countenanced by the legislature.
Herman Hetkamp was found frozen
to death OH the east side of Silver
mountain, last Friday. He had been
employed by Judge Doolins, of Hough-
ton, to cut "a road and make improve
ments on his homestead, and was living
in o house, all alone, about one mile
from Mr.. Dooiing's house. 1t would
seem that lie left the unfinished road he
was working on to go to the Judges
house and lost his way in the attempt.
So early in the week rs Monday it was
noticed by men going to the Aston
mine that Herman was not ut home, but
as he had prevlo usly said he intended
going to Baraga hv more direct route
than the road generally Travelled. moth
ing strange was thought of his absence,
and probably search would not have
been 30 soon ma de were it not that the
fine hound which stnid with him to tn
last made its way to the Aston mine
location scarcely nb to walk. Immede
lately on its arrival Archibald Aston
and Calvin Coblentz started in search
OF the man, following the dogs tracks.
which led til EN- to one Of the toughest
parts of this section of country. Her.
man, after leaving the trail, must have
become thoroughly lost, rs his tracks
would indicate that he made no intellig-
ent effort to find h is way out--wander-
ing around from one deep ravine to
another. Where he said Mt night
could he easily known from the beaten
path made from walking to and fro to
keep from freezing, which seemed Mt
the last to he his only obect. On the
searching pnrtv's reporting having
found him, six Of MS started the next
day with banlsled to bring him to
place that could he reached with team;
but this was found impossible on ac-
CONT of the rouglncss Of the country
and the depth of the snow. so it was
deemed advisable Ia temporarily inter
the body to prevent its being attacked
by any wild animals until further aid
could he procured The deceased was
an old soldier and the q. A. r. post of
Hancock being notified immed ately
took steps to give the remains of the
unfortunate old soldier more respect
able final resting place, the sheriff per-
Sonally, in behalf Of the county, sup
erintending the removal of the remains
to Houghton.