The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-08-24
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OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Rev. Father speoht arrived here Fri
day morning. s:...
John Mathason returned from Duluth
Sunday evening. ~ &
Col. Colvill came down from Duluth
Wednesday evening. ID Il. 2.s u s .: p
Landlord Fullerton returned Sunday
evening from Duluth. n
w. e. Lucas is building cabin on his
Homestead to replace the one that was
! burned last spring.
Capt.. ellis arrived on the Dixon We'd
.nesday evening, from Duluth, and left for
the interior yesterday morning.
= John .McAlpine, the pine land dealer,
came down on the Dixon Wednesday to
look over some pine in this vicinity.
DIR. Ell. Angle, G. J. 1ibbets and J..
III. Martlndale left on the Dixon Tuesday
smorning for their home in Minneapolis.
The Marigold, q government light
house tender, made Light House Keeper
Mayhem q call Tuesday morning and
took his boat away for repairs.
81. j. Braun and Claus Hanson re-
turned home last evening after erecting
a cabin on Miss Hedrick Freidlund's
homestead. They report her potatoe
crop in fine condition.
J. W. Hunt, of the we'll known law
firm of Afford &!Hunt, of Duluth, passed
through town on the Dixon w ednesday
evening on his way to Isle Royal to en-
joy;a couple of weeks outing.
We were pleased to receive q visit this
week from Daniel Hanley, OF Duluth,
who came down on the Dixon Wednes-
day evening to look over some pine lands
in the interests Of the LeSeuer Lumber
company.
A party consisting of Messrs. Sam1 F.
and John F. Howenstine, s. and G.S.
Rdgly, and Misses Ruth Cheaney, Katie
McLaren and Lizzie and Mary Howen-
slime came down on the Dixon Sunday
and have been enjoying camp lfe,on the
west side the past week. The Ridglys
returned to Duluth yesterday.
Mesdames HENDERSON, Matheson and
Murphy, Miss Hedrick Freidlund and
Register Tucker constituted party who
went down to Chicago Bay Wednesday
evening in response to an invitation ex-
tended them by the people of that happy
berg. Messrs. Chris and Matt johnson,
Herman Helmerson and Sander, Jentoft
went down in sail boat yesterday. We
regret very much that we were unable to
join the happy throng.
Cook county, at an election held on
the fifth, voted to bond the county to
build roads. The county sent a repre-
sentative to the legislature to try to get
an appropriation from the state for the
-.sFefk slsfailel The sstate has a. fund,
: created for the purpose Of helping coun-
build roads, but it is claimed that the
fund has been plundered by counties
well able to pay for their own road i'm
provements.-Tower Journal.
81. Mayhem retu rned from Duluth
Wednesday evening accompanied by
party OF railroad men headed by T. G.
Lewis Of Chicago. The party left for
GunAint yesterday morning. We have
been unable to learn what they propose
to do, but have been informed that if
everything proves satisfactory at the
AunAint mines they propose to begin
preparations at once for the building of
q road from Grand Marais to Gunhint.
1t is safe to say that they will find
everything satisfactory at the GuuAint
mines.
Frank johnson, of the Johnson Nickle
Mining company, came into town We'd
nesday and left on the Dixon yesterday
morning for st. Paul. Before leaving
he made us call during which he STAT
ed that the article published in the Du-
luth News Tribune, extracts of which
were published in THE HERALD couple
Ut weeks ago, was manufactured false
hood, He says that he never made such
statements as are attributed to him in
that article, and, furthermore, that the
gentlemen who accompanied him we're
simply members of his company who
came down to look oyer his work. While
Mr.. johnson does not deny that he is
working on silver vein, and also that
ne is sinking test pits for. iron, he says
that he has not struck it rich enough in
either to warrant development, and that
as soon as he does he will not be back
ward in letting the people know about
it. Until such time he has nothing to
say. He says he has also found any
quantity of gold bearing rocks, but it is
q more difficult matter to find the veins.
= MIR. johnson has spent several thous-