The Irish standard., 1891-05-09
I West Superior.

West Superior.
Special correspondence Of The Irish Standard.
Walter DumpheY has rented his hotel
and retired from business.
Mrs. w. D. Dwyer who has been i'll
for several weeks is convalescent.
r. j. Shields has resigned his office
as deputy sheriff to take charge OF
Paden 81 Co.'s builders supplies bust.
ness.
Miss Mary E. Liebe has taken q po-
siti0n as one Of the principal teachers
in the Matt Carpenter school building,
and is said to be rapidly winning a
well merited popularity.
Rentfrow's Jolly Pathfinders pre-
sented below Zero" to about rs dis
gusted people at the Grand on the
End inst. 1t was "beIow zero," indeed.
and ii all rumors are to be credited. the
jolly Path6nders score more happy hits
off the stage than on.
The Wells Stone Mercantile Go. have
decided to remove their business from
Duluth to West Superior. AS this is
one of the largest wholesale concerns in
the Northwest, the advantage gained
to Superior By its removal here will be
very great. It Will only be a short
time until the ''cliff dwellers'' abandon
Duluth for Superior.
M. G. Burke has given up the hotel
business and is devotIng all his time
and energy to his firms business in
contract work. Many Of the bows with
whom the Commercial Hotel is favor
ite haunt regret the change in the man
agement Of this celebrated hostlery.
Work upon all city contracts. let by
the Board of Public Works during the
winter IS being crowded very rapidly.
The estimated public improvements in
the city this year is $2OOO.0OO. There
are at least ten thousand laboring men
engaged in the city at the present time.
and no CITY in the Northwest presents
more active appearance than Super
ior. People are coming in from all
quarters; the hotels and boarding
houses are all crowded with families
who are unable TO find houses in which
to live. On the side tracks Of the
Great Northern Railroad there stands
$50 cars loaded with household goods
belonging to families vino have moved
here this spring and who are unable to
get houses II which to live. and who
are paving demurrage upon those cars
owing TO the fact that all warehouses
in the the city are now filed with house
hold goods Of other families who are
unable to find houses to live in. 1t ii
estimated that not fewer than 20,0O(
men will be employed here this present
summer.
Superior has recently passed through
very exciting municipal election, il
which politics were very much mixed
Martin Patterson, Republican. succeed
himself as mayor; G. r. Fridley, Demo
crat, was elected municipal judge by ;
small plurality; Joseph Baribeau, Dem
ocrat, was chosen to succeed himself a
city treasurer; while Lewis Larson wa
re- elected to the office of city comptrol
Ter without opposition. Mayor Pat
terson's appointees to the principa
city offices are as follows: City attor
neY. w. E. Woolpert; city marshal
John Paden; city clerk. w. j. Dargis
Board Of public works, w. j. Whlppie
for three years. "a, nj. spencer, tw'
years, G. X. Lawrence. one year; O.
Ronning. secretary OF the board of pub
lie works. Dargis, Paden, and Spencer
being Democrats and prominent il
their partv. it would seem that Mayo
Patterson earnestly desires to give +
the city non partisan administration
His appointments have SO far met witt