The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-11-18
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81: MAYHEM visited Duluth last week.
Hans Gilbertson returned from Duluth
Sunday. i 5. !.
J p. Mayhew returned from Duluth
Wednesday evening.
Auditor Fisher left on the Dixon
Tuesday morning for pulut
T. J.C. Dawkins Of West Superior came
down*fon the Sunday boat to visit his
/; claim in the Gunaint district ,s,. !.
i: A. S. Carlson Of Chicago Bay returned
home from Duluth Sunday evening,
accompanied BY, q party Of settlers. "
- Chas, Anaquet left Thursday morn
ing for Eagle Mountain, whore he will
spend the winter hunting and, trapping:
:; S. Mcclellan and F. G. Mott arrived
from the interior last evening. They
report five inches of snow "a miles north
of here. -; - --'-
Alderman Geo. B. Swift (Republican)
was elected mayor pro tenn: of Chicago
at a meeting. of the city council;of that
city held ON Monday Of last week.
Shipments of lumber by water ceased
this week, Over 125,O0Q,000 feet have
been moved from the head of the lake
by water this season, which doubles the
record of the previous year. -:
John Drouillard and family, accom-
panied by Mrs. Anaquet, arrived Sunday
evening from Duluth. MI. :Drouillard
and his partner, A. s. Carlson have, to
a large extent, been the means Of the
rapid settlement: of the Chicago Bay dis
triet, they having located nearly two
: hundred settlers. during the past season.
The Duluth land Office last Saturday
received the decision of Assistant Com
missioner Bowers in the contest case Of
JAS: M. Gray VS.. Jas. G. Dawkins, in
volving Mr.: Dawkins' homestead in Sec
tion 1, GA. The decision affirmed the
decision of the local land office and or
dered that the homestead entry be held
for cancellation.
Francis Fl. Weeks, who was brought
back from Costa Rica, was arraigned in
New York on The 9Th inst. He pleaded
guilty to the indictment of grand 1arce-
ny which accused him Of having stolen
$4,000 from the estate of Mrs. Nicholas
Fish. Thereupon he was sentenced to
ten years imprisonment with hard labor
at Sing Sing. :...'-'
The whaleback passenger steamer
Christopher Columbus arrived in Du-
4uth last week from Chicago: She has
carried over two million passengers with
in six months, and Captain DcDougall
says she has returned in perfect condi
tion. It is now definitely decided that
the big boat will run next summer in
regular excursion business between Chi.
cago and Milwaukee, making daily
{ round
A telegram from Minneapolis, dated
November 18th, says: Christian Kort-
gard, president of the insolvent State
Pank, was arrested this afternoon charg-
cd with embezzlement from the State
bank, July %, Of $1,000. His bail was
Aged at $4,000 and his examination set
fer Nov. 81. The warrant for Kort-
guards arrest was sworn out by G. IT.
Chadbourne, broker. What the ulti-
nrate charges against Kortgaard will be
is unknown, but the fact that besides
being president of the bank he was at
the head of several of the large compan-
les that borrowed sums from the institu
ton, is likely to result in the preference
Of graver charges than those for which
be is now under arrest, Mr., Kortgaard
has been very popular man in Minnea-
polls up to the difficulties of the bank.
Besides being president Of the State
bank he was also president of the Du-
luth. Port Arthur & Western railroad.
The leading feature OF the Review of
Reviews for November is it's presentation
Of the ::Possibilities Of the Great North
west" in an article by S. A. Thompson
of Duluth, and in a supplementary arti-
Gle by DR.. Emory r. johnson, upon ''In-
land Waterways for the Northwest. !"
Mr.. Thompson, as secretary of the Du-
luth Chamber Of Commerce, has for sew
oral years been actively engaged in
searching out and applying effective
means for bringing the great states
northwest Of the Upper Mississippi, and
the great Canadian PROVINCES belonging
geograph ideally to the same region, into
closer communication with the rest of
the North American continent. He is
therefore able to write with an enthusi,
asm born of intimate knowledge OF the
subject and supported by very important
and surprising statistics. DR.. johnson
is lecturer son Transportation in the
Wharton School Of Finance and Econ
omics, University of Pennsylvania, and