The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-04-07
LOCAL AND ST ATE NEWS.

bis many friends here.
The Port. Arthur Herald ia came d, to our
desk this week il . complete new dress
which greatly improves, s 8, the appearance
! odfSt l p. bright and hRewsy sheet.
William r. Laidlaw has been awarded
.$25,0 900 damages against Russell Sage for
injuries received when Norcrossdropped
the dynamite bomb in Sage's Office.
"A fine body Of iron ore, containing at
least 100000 tons, has been showed up
by test pits on the Meeaba range not far
from Evelett. The property is owned
by the McInnis Iron company.
Candidates for the cadetship in the
United States navel academy at Anna
lis will be examined in, Duluth on th~
18th inst. by a board consisting of R. E.
-Denfeld, W H. Schultz and T. T. Hud-
son. a. .:.E.r-. 80. ...
Operations at the Redwood Falls coal
mine have been discontinued by the Nc.
Kinleys OF Duluth, they having come to
the conclusion that there is no prospects
of coal there. They expended about
$1,000 in diamond drill tests.
Canada uses 600 900 tons of iron. pro-
duces 10000 tons, i'm ports the equivalent
of $4,000 tons and exports 1911 tons Of
iron ore. Our protection policy must be
"a fraud or the iron part of it is badly
:bossed Port Arthur Herald.
We are in receipt of No: 2 OF the Sun
day Morning Spectator, new society
weekly published at West Duluth by E
J. Luther and edited BYE V. Manson.
The Spectator succeeds the Times which
was formerly published by Mr.. Luther.
One of our subscribers sets good ex-
ample by paying up all arrearaees and
stopping his paper: We wish more of
dhem would follow suit. It's much bet
ter than eternally staying and never
paying-a cent.-Mountain Iron Mani
tou.- 49,
cold Hutch" the erstwhile boss Of
the Chicago board of trade, and who
used to handle millions of dollars as the
average business man handles nickels
has degenerated into Chicago saloon
keeper. He will be on the police force
the next we hear of him.-Prison Mirror.
The tugs Howard and Mariel, the for
mer of 81 and the latter of Is tons, will
make Duluth their headquarters this
season, they having been registered in
the Duluth custom house by Capt. w !.
Fl. Singer Of Chicago, It is said that
both Of them will be in the service of A.
Booth & Son. 3 b. s. :
The weather bureau requests all per.
sons who frequent the lake to keep a
lookout for a number Of bottles which
were set adrift last year to determine
the lake currents and, when found, tt
ill out the paper in the bottle, enclose il
in the penalty envelope and forward il
to the bureau at Washington.
Augustus Sutherland of Lynn, Mass.
with coughing fit recently, during
which he elected pistol bullet which
had been imbedded in his neck for tn
past 81 years. For years he had bee1
under the care of a physician, who ha
been treating him for supposed canoe
in bis neck.
The Minnesota Canal company, whic]
proposes to furnish to Duluth 10000
horsepower for the. operation of mill
and factories, by the construction of
canal from point on the st. Louis rive
twelve miles above Cloquet to the cit,
is about ready to commence operation
, The company will build thirty tire
miles Of canal, forty feet wide. Th
j work will require two years, and wi
cost 100000.
Col. A. A. Harris of Duluth, attorne
for the Merritts in the action pendin
against W. G. Wetmore and the Ste,
= Barge company, returned last week fro1
New ork, where he has been studyin
-.
!, = Merritts lost the control of the Mesat
range and some $10.0oo,0oo. He sa,
: that there is no question but that tx
Merritts and the Duluth men intereste
were deliberately and systematical
robbed, and hints that there will be sol
sational developments.
Henry Mayhem, one Of Grand Marai
greatest men, came in yesterday att
being on the route several days, :. E
and an Indian snow -shoed it the eight
seven miles to Two Harbors and four
the travelling about as ,, bad as
could be. Mr.. Mayhem lis the first eli
zen of Grand Marals to come out
winter quarters. He. says the Peep
have been unusually free from sickne
this winter. There is float ice most
the distance between Two Harbors 81
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