The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-10-10
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS
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CLIPPED AND CONDENSED FROM OUl
EXCHANGES.
Ironwood has a new daily paper.
The Marquette prison has 1Ol con
victs.
Cant. Wm. Harris, of Lake Linden
died last Monday.
All the effects OF the jackson Iron
company ut Fayette have been sold
and that once prosperous village is now
deserted.
The Kirby-C Carpenter company, of
Menominee, has bought from The Ayers
Estate l0,OvT acres of pine lands IN
Honghton county paying therefor s144,-
600.
Salvation Oil, the greatest pain.cure
on earth, is compounded OF pui est
drugs. It is guaranteed to contain
nothing of poisonous character.
Only % cents pottle.
Marquette's city council was not
satisfied with the doings of its electric
light commission and voted O resolution
abolishing it. There is very pretty
municipal fight on, now.
Nils Lundstrom, miner, was mur.
dered at Republic by some unknown
person. The cause of the murder is
also mystery. A coronor's jury tried
to unravel the mystery but couldn't
The body of Mary Mckay, who was
drowned off Whiteish point on the
schooner Perew, arrived at Bay City
Saturday. Miss Mckay was taking q
pleasure trip and was not the cook as
reported. 49,,
The late w. F. Montgomery was
insured in the Washington Life
Insurance company for $4,000. He
had also been member of the A. o.
U. W. society but allowed his member
ship to lapse.
William Daniel and Frank Broulette.
who were held for the murder of J. Z.
Mccormick in prize 6gIt at Crystal
Fails, last July, were eleased by the
circuit court, there being no evidence
against them.
George Wilson and J. A. Cameron.
caught q wild horse in the Huron
mountains last week. The horse lived
in the woods at least two winters, as is |
shown by the trees with the bark and |
browse of, The horse was caught over
4O miles from any settlement.
Pat McHugb, Nadeau tough, shot |
and killed himself mt Parmenter's lum-
Der camp, the other day. Being desti-
tute his body was sent to Green Bay
for burial, but the officers there refused
tn ~
Nadeau where it was buried by private
Subscription.
Frank Foster, foreman of gang of
ore trimmers employed ut No. 5 ore
dock, Escanaba, was fired ut from am
bush while on his way home some dis
lance out of the city Saturday night.
His watch stopped the ball and he is
still on earth, but the watch is total
wreck. The would-be assassin has not
been discovered. Escanaba's reputa.
lion for law and order is equal to that
IF Texas.
Rawson Bennett, telegraph editor of
The Mining Journal, has been arrested
'or melting riot. This case grows out
IL the disturbance that was kicked mn
It Marquette, few nights ago, when O
luack doctor attempted to dispose of !
lis wares on one of the principal streets
II the city, and some of the Young /,
floods undertook to set up business on !,
he side show plan. Both doctor and
idle show were driven from the field {.
With bouquets of stale eggs presented ]
" an appreciative audience.
Several years ago the Prentiss Lum- +,
DER company purchased on contract ,
orm Ross & Go. tract of pine lands .
,ear Newberry giving notes for the
nstallments. Alter making several 8
'ay yments the Prentiss concern "bus- q
ed" and failing to make any further ,
'ayments Ross & Co. declared the con-
ract forfeited and sold the pine to
ther parties for 100000. This would @
ave ended the matter had not repre-
entatives of the Ross estate brought
nit against Prentiss & Co. to recover !,
he amount due on the notes. BY do
ng this they revived the contract, it is 0
laimed, and now Prentiss & Co. sue
or the value OF the timber, which, at
resent prices, will make pretty
um. Moral: 1t doesn't always pay to n
'e too hoggish. o
The Grand Rapids Press furnishes I
he following explanation of the troub- a
. between the Metropolitan Lumber a
ompany and the homesteaders in the a
ron River district: .
Recently Judge Severens of the
United States court, in the case of the 2
United State, against the Metropolitan n
lumber company, issued an order a
ranting the company permission to 4
ut the burned timber from certain h
ract, the company to file nm indemnity
ond i'll the sum OF $50O,0OO to secure n
he homesteaders in case the suit was b
ecided in their favor. In preparing n
10 written order the c.erk of the court r
made it to cover the en- a
re territory in controversy and the n
now claim that timber is a;
eng q. tnr unburnt district at
ste OF Gv,Jc 10 per day. The home fe
eaders have vigorously objected to 81
lis action aud made open war on the n,
orkmen, killing several horses and
,rioralv in I'm rino fbs. ..opo,,a :, -, 49,, |