The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-05-14
UPPER PEnlAsuLA NEWS

SA'FrSD AMI S"NDGSnkU rHoA oun
EXCHANGES.
Ontonagon has the measels.
The village printing costs $l3.45 in
Ontonsgon and 500 in st Ignace, per
year. or'
Jas. d. Rough, Of Negaunee, has
been appointed mine inspector Of Mar
quette county.
Negaunee reports q big building
boom, especially among men Of moder-
ate means, who are erecting homes.
Special mail service has been
established between Robbins and
Sucker Creek, in Ontonagon county.
The assessors of Gogebic county have
inaugurated u movement to assess all
property in the county at its true cash
value.
The Huron mine was sold at sheriff N
sale, last Saturday. for $62,667. .18.
The property was purchased by local
creditors. AXIS
While unpacking q bunch of bona
mas. the other day, st. Ignace fruit
dealer captured live tarantula and
bottled it up.
@. H. Kirkwood, prominent drug.
gist Of Ishpeming, fell beneath the
wheels of q street car, Saturday even.
ing, and was instantly killed.
Ishpeming and Negaunee people are
agitating the removal Of the county seat
from Marquette to central point be-
tween the former cities. It is very
coed scheme.
The Bessemer Pick e. Axe is at log
gerheads withlthe municipal government
and promises to keep tab on the city
dads ina way to please itself rather
than them.
A third but unsuccessful attempt TO
fire the Iron Mountain public school
building was made one night last week.
II is supposed to be the work OF de-
pravcd youngsters.
st. lgnace business men complain
that insurance rates are prohibitory, or
nearly 10, in some cases rsting from, 8
to 2 per cent. and that on property pro-
tected by water system carrying . 20
pound pressure.
The body of Joseph Seidl, an elderly
saloonkeerer, of Menomince, who has
been missing from home four weeks wss
found in Green Bay last Saturday. II
is supposed that he committed suicide.
He leaves widow and five children.
Wednesday night, while eieoting
couple OF men from his train, Con-
ductor Samuel q. Gibson Of the D., s.
3. g. A. railroad was shot by one of
the men. The ball struck o brass
button and glanced of. The men were
arrested.
The Wendigo Copper company, nm
English syndicate which has been ex-
tensively exploring for copper on Isle
Royale, has abandoned the work after
two-year's test. There is no copper
therein paying quantities notwithstand-
ing the many pits sunk by the mound
builders wonld seem to indicate it.
The Ontonagon Mirer says the
National copper mine has not closed
down, as was reported, but is working
actively and, what is more, is finding
richer ground than for some time past,
large masses having been encountered
under the thirteenth level.
Chief Engineer Armstrong, OF the
milwaukee & Northern railroad, was
in Iron Mountain the other day, and
informed Tribune reporter that work
on the extension north from Sagola
would commence in very short time
now. It will not touch Crystal Falls.
as has been predicted.
The jury in the case OF Jacob Smith
against Mast & Karger on trial in the
Houghton circuit court rendered .
verdict Of 81, 400 damages in favor Of
the plaintiff. This has been one Of the
longest and most hotly contested civil
cases that has been tried in Upper
Peninsula.
The land department. has rendered ~
important decision in the Ashland dfs-
trict, involving the title to 1000 scres
Of fland, all located within the city limits.
The value Of the land il estimstsd st
$500, 900. The decision gives yight~ to-
Peter lanai, John r. Prince, Harry
81. Beaser, Roy Prince, VIM o.. Judd
and J. h. Snyder. The lands are To-
Gated in two grants, which oyerlapped
and were purchased By Col. J. II.
knight, Of the Wiaconsin Central rail
road, under the not OF March 8, 1887.
His claim has been rejected by the
department as invalid on the ground
that he is not q bona ode purchaser and