The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-03-07
Correspondence.
On THE line OF THE d., 3. 5. y \.
March 3, 1891.

I Editor Sentillei:- There is music
i'll the air i'll Duncan township, and the
slate making for the spring election, is
progressing rapidly. Sidnaw is uncom-
monty busy. They do not EXHIBIT much
cheek-ol, no--ali they want is the
! supervisor, clerk, treasurer, highway
F, commissioners, justice Of the peace and
constable. The balance of the ticket
hey very n,agnanim ously offer to divide
between the villages of Crystal Lake,
Kitchi, and Kenton. "Some people
take alp but "these people leaveNnonc."
The present town board have dealt very
literally ly them. They appropriated
$500 from the contingent fund.- to he
expended upon their Streets, and the
supervisor, it is alleged, was one of the
contractors for the work. Icannot now
give you the authority for such pro
ceeding-it has slipped my memory, il
it ever was there--but suppose it is all
right. am told that the contingent
fund" is derived from licences for
selling liquor, and the claim they made
was tina, they had moro saloons than all
tho other towns combined. Well, that
honor ~ surely belongs to them. Why
not? II is said that the supervisor and
highway commissioner are both saloon
keepers. There is another "still, small
! voice" permeating the air. II is alleged
that one OF the minor officers of the
town, who has q large sized bee in his
bonnet" for another office, in order to
F, mere SO his own chances and lessen
those Of his supposed opponent (who is
also an ofiicer) has been very industrious
i'll charging "lraul" and croohedness,"
and induced five items, by his
representations, to call a meeting Of the
citizens to investigate the financial con.
! dition OF the town. The meeting was
duly called and organized, and consider
ablc talking iudulged in, but be who
had beon CRYING fraud" 40 Justify was
Conspicuous ny hio upSeHNS, aithOuSH
the meeting was held not more than
twenty rods away from where lie was
during the whole time. A committee
was appointed to investigate the pro-
ceedings of the officers from the organ
ization of the township to the present
time, and to report on the 7th OF
March. The writer is fearful that the
old saw "thosc who live in glass houses" !.
boomerang" etc, will prove applicable
to this case. We will see what we viii
see.
"Havc we tn ore?' asked the
SENTINEL last week. Why, yes. Didn't
you know chat? Some OF the cid
settlers Of Houghton, and think Bar
aga also, have avery Observation-Disclosures
think, OF a tin mine havi 6 been dis
covered not thousand miles from
Houghton which was stock d for $50, 900
put on the market and sold. 1t was
something like Uncle i lly Murdock's
mine near Goose Lake, for which he
was offered fal ulous irrice. No, he
wouldn't sell The first blast he fred
blew out all the ore there was in it
not pound has been found since
although he looked faithfully for it
That's what's tie ma. er with that cid
tine tin CD mine.
The Kitchi school is on tho increase:
they have three scholars now--threc
whole ones.
Edward Poweil's family left kitchi
last week, for Freepo,t, Ill, where Ms.
Powcll's parents reside, TO spend the
winter ard place their children in
school. Ed. is an "old bach" now.
| Shake.
Walton has broken camp and re-
moved his paraphrenalia TO IShpeming
having put in all the timber he has
/ here.
! TAYLOR & Anthony have broken camp
and discharged all their men hut three
who will look after their camp 1ripage
and teams, which will remain here for
spring and summer operations.
l obs rved in tho last SENTINEL thu
"a Homesteadar' has "inmp d" M
claim. OF II me. Well, he IS welcome
TO it if he went through oil the scenes
he describes. in 1857. lie seems to
think thai elm trees did good thing
or that part Of the country. How did
it happen that he got away? Wonder
what kind Of elms they were--rork elm,
slippery elm or-the o'her kindp The
writer travelled through that country in
1885 and settled in Wisconsin. and has
seen miles and miles of forest fires with
hundreds of deer ard wolves fleeino
before it to seek safety, but has no re-
collection of having nsed lantern tn
90 to dinner with. Well, my friend. l
will never enter contest with Won for
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