The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-11-26
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The proposition to bond Delta county
| for $40, ,000 for new court house was
| lost.
Charles T.. Osborne, Of Menominee.
got five months in the Marquette
prison for resisting an officer.
Editor Knight, Of tho Norway Cur
rent, wants to be commissioner OF
mineral Statistics. He is said to have
good backing.
Some one stolo the American
Express Co.'S horse, wagon and strong
box at the Sault. but finding the latter
empty, turned the horse loose.
Archdeacon Williams has been peti
toned to remove Rev. w. p. j. n.
| Wharton fiom the pastorate of the
Iron Mountain episcopal charge.
| James Mcdonald, in Jail at the Sault
on charge of ealing $50, made an
unsuccessful attempt to commit
suicide by taking dose of laudanum.
The Browne Chaplin Lumber Com
pany is is shipping eight to ten cars
OF lumber daily from Ontonagop, Mich.
Thcy employ 100 men during the win
ter.
A man who ought to know what he
is talking about says that August w.
Lindholm, of lshpeming, gets the
position of deputy secretary of state.
The position pays S2,00oa year.
The troops at tile old fort near the
Sault yesterday began to remove to the
new Fort Brady About Dec. l. Lieut.
Col. Wikoff, Of Fort Wayne, will
assume command of the new barracks.
The Calumet &; Hccla Mining Co.
yesterday at Boston declared a dividend
of s. per share, payable Dec. 16.
Thi, makes 81 100000 paid in dividends
this year, and total of dividends of S4S,-
$4,000 to date
Up to November l the Menominee
River Boom Company had RATED out
and sealed 525,00O,000 feet of logs.
This amount was 9o,O00,0Qo feet more
than was scaled for the entire season of
1891, which was 430, 900, ,000 feet.
During the blizzard last week Pete
Sauer OF Lake Linden, whose wealth
is estimated at 800, COO in well paying
Calumet 81 Hecla mining stock, took
traveller distance of five miles for 81
80. lie said he needed the money.
The postmaster of Iron Mountain
swears by oil the gods of upper and
lower Khem that he can't stand the
disgrace of holding Office under
democratic administration, and says
that the minute Cleveland takes the
oath of Office, hell write his resigna-
ton.
The Cleveland Saw Mill Company
is extending its operations at the mouth
of Dead river, and along that stream,
in Marquette county, upper Michigan,
since it has purchased the pine owned
by ,4awley 81 McGratii, and I. III.
McGrath. A number of houses are
being built for employees, and n large
warehouse for supplies is to he erected.
Two pic ms WILDE built on the up
per tributaries Of Dead river, and pill
ing will be driven for log channel
from deep water in the lake to the
hoist by which the logs are taken from
the lake and thrown over into the
storage pond. The company will
purcha G good many logs along the
lake shore so as to slve its home supply
OH the river for many years. Another
dock will he built, the piIing for which
is already on the ground.
The statement Of traffic through the
Sault canal during October contains
some very interesting figures. 1t shows
among other tlliugs that the east bound
freight, amounted to l,Ol3,3l6 tons, and
west bound 419, ,220 tous. Some of the
items will serve TO indicate, in meas
ure, the largo business done. They are
as follows: Flour, 7S2,3l6 barrels;
corn, 1Sl, 600 bushels; wheat, 6,09S,S57
bushels; building stone, 1882 tons:
copper, s S,02G tons; iron ore, 594, ,436
tons; silver ore, $50 tons; pig iron, y
936 tons; lumber, II, 574, 900 feet. Bay
field Washburn, Ashland ard the sew
eral ports along the south shore con-
tributed to the last item, the heaviest
shipment from any one place being
from Ashland.
Hon. Pctec White, of Marquette, is
at the Russell House. Mr.. White is
personally III charge of getting up the
Mich gan exhibit Of minerals for the
Worlds Fair and when he strikes that
e1,hiart be Ia naturally onth1lsiastic