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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09
SCHOOL NOTES.
Items Of Interest Concerning Our
Schools.
Correspondence to THE SENTINEL.

Correspondence to THE SENTINEL
With the beginning of another
school year we are reminded that
space for a school column in TIE
SENTINL1 is at our disposal. By
means of it we will try to give to
the public all points of interest con-
cerning the school.
School opened this year with
fairly good enrolment in all de-
partments. At present the en-
rollment is as follows: Primary,
~; intermediate, 43; grammar, n;
high school, 3S; total, l6S. This en-
rollment is not what it should be.
There are several boys-yes, and
girls too, who should be found in
our school. 1t seems almost in
credible that parents are so careless
in regard to the welfare of their
children.
Mrs. Graham, of the Pequaming
school, sent over for dozen of the
library books for her pupils to read.
There are many, perhaps, who do
not know that any person residing
in the township may have access to
the library. 1t is open every Fri
day afternoon from $3.50 to 4:3O
o clock.
Miss Columbus commenced school
at the mission this week. Let every
one/at that place see that all pupils
who should attend are to be found
in the school.
A teachers reading circle has
| been organized in this township, and
arrangements have been made to
meet every Friday night The
books that will be read are Nedam S
zoology and Halleck S psychology.
The former is designed TO assist
teachers in mature S study" the
latter is professional study.
The seniors are studying geometry
physics, Caesar, and reviewing
arithmetic, this term.
The Bay Shore school enrolls 46
pupils. The school board had ad-
ditional seats put in the building
last Saturday 1t is hoped that all
who come may find place
! Our high school has fine new
flag which may be seen floating
gracefully to the breeze on flag
days.
We cannot close without remind
ing parents of the fact that visitors
are always welcome to the school
room. No names have as yet been
enrolled on our visitors list.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09
CITY ITEMS.

Hon. o. w. Robinson, of Chassell,
was in town Tuesday.
a. f. Bondy, who resides on a
homestead west of Baraga, was in
town Tuesday.
A social dance was given at the
Opera House last evening by "A num-
Der of young people.
Mrs E. L. Mason left for Chicago
Saturday last where she will visit
relatives and friends. She will also
visit in Detroit before her return.
Frank O'Rourk and Miss Annie
Antiel, both of Covington, were
Monday granted license to wed.
Gus Crebassa now carries the
mail between L'Anse and Skanee,
having taken a sub.contract from
Charles Londberg.
There was regular meeting of
the village council Thursday even
ing. The official proceedings APP
pear on page eight.
c. p. Blankenhorn mourns the
loss of twenty-five fine brook trout,
which he had in an aquar-
ium in his meat market. In some
unaccountable manner the water
was turned off last Saturday night
and the fish died,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09
STATE TAXES FOR 1897.
The Apportionment Fixed for the
Present Year.

State Accountant Humphrey has
apportoncd the state taxes for 1897
and forwarded the lists TO the county
trcasurers. The total taxation for
general purposes amounts to 81 334,-.
57G.2l. In 1895 the levy amounted
to SO, ,013, 9l9; while in 1896 it was
81, 06S, 53S. This years levy, there
fore shows nearly three-quarters ola
million of dollars less than last year.
The largest item in the levy is for the
state university, which amounts to
$207, lS3 The next largest items
are: Asylums, S49, 80; prisons,
S23, 900; home for feeble minded,
$40, 7SS; Michigan national guard,
$S9, 665; Michigan college of mines,
$i3, 900; state normal school, $73,
900; soldiers home, $SS, 900; Onton-
agon relief, $25, 900; Michigan school
for the blind, s2S, 600; school for the
deaf, $50, ,0j0. A bounty of 50, 900
for the beet sugar industry is includ-
ed in the levy this year. The follow
ing shows the equalization and the
tax as apportioned to the several
counties in the upper peninsula:
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09
Between Fifteen and Twenty
Thousand Persons Drowned
in Floods I'm China.
A DISASTER NEAR PEKIN.
Thousands Of Persons Without
PrOtectiOn-Distress Of the
Homeless Is PitiabIe.

Chicago, Oct 6The Record prints
a dispatch from China which says:
Sixty villages near Tung Chou con
tanning more than so, 600 inhabitants
have been destroyed by floods and
the people drowned or forced to flee.
There is no means Of finding out how
many thousands have been drowned,
but the number is estimated by Chi
nese authorities at ID, 900 to 20, 600.
The flooded district is within II miles
of Pekin, the capital Of China. AS q,
rule Chinese officials make very little
stir when a calamity like this hap
pens, but the proximity of the disas-
ter has resulted in its being brought
to the attention of the emperor, who
has ordered that all possible relief
be given. Survivors from the vii
lagos nearest Pekin have been al
lowed such shelter as they can find
in the city walls, but thousands are
without protection against the rain,
which continues to fall The dis
tress of these people is most pitiable.
Public-spirited and wealthy men of
Pekin and Tpng Chou are actively
assisting the authorities in provid
ing them with food The unusual
rains began July % and continued
until August ID. The crops in the
flooded district were destroyed. The
projects, local magistrates and peo-
pie of the flooded district prayed
for the cessation of the rain seven
days before they were finally driven
out of their homes.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09
HE WAS GIVEN THE LIMIT.
Peter BOns Sentenced to Life
imprisonment, With Solitary
conference.-the Killed Pearl
Morrison.

Crystal Falls, Oct. 4.-The circuit
court for the county Of Iron con-
vened this forenoon. The first case
on the calendar was that of the pee
pie against Peter Bons, charged
with the murder of Pearl Morrison.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the
charge of murder and was sentenced
to Imprisonment in the branch
prison at Marquette with solitary
confinement and hard labor for life.
The murder occurred in the latter
part of July and was brutal one
The girl, while picking berries, was
met by Bons in lonely spot. He
committed criminal assault upon
her, then choked her to death and
hid her body The girls body was
not found for several days. Sus-
picion fell upon Bons and he was ar
rested. Feeling ran high against
him and there was much talk of Il
lynching, and one was only averted
by the father of the murdered girl
pleading with the crowd to let the
law take its course. Six weeks ago
detective in the guise of "A LAWYER
obtained a confession from Bons,
which was later repeated to the
authorities
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09
Peter Smith Plead Guilty to
the Charge of
Larceny.
JUDGMENT WAS RENDERED
Against the w. III. Sawyer Lum-
ber COmpany-Case Will Go
to the Supreme Court.

The October term of circuit court
for Baraga county convened in this
city Monday morning at 10 o clock.
Hon. n. w. Haire, Judge of the
thirty second judicial circuit, being
present in place of Hon. Jay A..
Hubbell, who is still unable on ac :
count of poor health to resume his
seat upon the bench.
There was but one criminal case
on the calendar, that of the People
vs.. Peter Smith. the charge being
attempted larceny. The Judge gave
Smith a sound lecture and stated
that he would defer sentence iuntil
the next term of court, and provid-
ing his conduct was good, he would
then release him from the charge,
otherwise he would pass sentence
upon him.
Marquette County Savings Bank
vs.. the Township of Baraga, as
sumpsit: action being to recover on
a claim of $1,000. The case was
settled without trial for $500
In the case of Alfred and Adolph
Pinet vs.. the w. H. Sawyer Lum-
Der company, assumpsit, the jury
rendered verdict in favor of Pinet
Bros. for the full amount of their
claim, SS40,9S. 1t is stated that
the Sawyer Lumber company will
take the case to the supreme court.
The cases of the Village of l. 'Anse
VS. the Fire Insurance Co. of Phil
adelphia, and Village of L 'Anse vs.
Imperial Insurance Co., of London,
to recover damages on fire engine
while out of building, which cases
were taken under advisement by the
court at the July term, were de-
cided in favor of the defendants.
Thomas Gresham VS.. Robert Will
son, John Falk. Matt Nlinzghor and
Peter Girard, assumpsit. Con-
tinued.
Marks Michaclsky and Annie
Michaclsky vs.. Henry Lamere,
Henry Ross and Frank St, Germain,
eiectment suit. Court directed a
verdict for the plaintiffs against
Frank St. Germain and Henry Ross.
Anselme Bovine VS.. John II.
Hid and Charles p, Blankenhorn.
Settled.
The trespass case of John Vedder,
highway commissioner of Coving-
ton township. VS.. William Irvine,
was continued.
in the case of Joseph Charettc vs..
James b. Smith, certiorari. the
judgment of lower court was af-
firmed
Frank E. Hail. ct. al VS. Harvey
Selden, bill for discharge of mort
gage. Continued.
In the matter of the petition of
Francis Boldly, ct. al, infants. for
leave to sell lands. Petition was
granted.
In the chancery case of Charles
w. McFadden VS.. Thomas Brady,
Callie Gordon and Narbon +. n.
Robrieson, and also the case of
Charles w. McFadden VS.. Elizabeth
A. Bendry, bill to quiet title, the
court took the matter under adj
visement.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09
Council Proceedings.
loFF1CIAL.l

At a regular meeting of the
common council of the village
of l. 'Anse, held in the coun-
Gil chamber, Thursday evening,
October 7th, A. D. 1897, there
were present: President Blanken-
horn and Trustees Belanger, Bulger,
Frenette and Johnston, and Clerk
Voetsch
The minutes of the meetings Of
August 9th and September I'd were
read and approved.
On separate motions the following
bills were allowed:
L. Menard. draying dirt on Front st S 8 so
c. p. Blankenhorn, 6i2 It plank tcross-
walks and culvertsi at S1I............. 3 81
John Campbell, spikes, oilcloth, etc..... . s6
p. Cullnney, IL days cutting brush aud
cleaning cemetery grounds at Sl.15. e. 81 90
/ IL. Frenette, loads garbage from alleys
at 2ac............ ...,..,...........",.. ~
c. LaRose, night watching, July 6th... 20
J. Countin, pa days repairing engine
| house at s2..............s....... 90
| J. Countn,l0i IT lumber for engine house. ~
| L. Menard draying" IS
| J,Campbcll, nails for engine house : .33
80 II rope so
p. Bulger, one day repairing engine
I house and repairing hose .....,.....,.. 90
A. Menge, sundries for hremen sept. sth.. 80
J.Graham. ~ daysreparing bridges and
cuIverts at sl.75 Observation-Disclosures. . ls
C.vaughn, 2lf days repairing bridges and
culverts at si.75........... ............... 3 qs
II. Selden, I day rep'ng bridges a. cuverts on
w.Thomas, 1 I" 1 s5
@ selden. 2 3 so
p. Brogep.2 . 50
| q. shotbolt, days team on streets .... 90
JB smith, 773 It plank for culverts at sie. 9 %
IL dnxa 4
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09

Miss X. Wahl now carries com
plete line of stamped linens and the
famous Brainerd 81 Armstrong en-
broidery silks in all shades desirable
for doing all varieties Of fancy work.
Ladies OF L'Anse and vicinity are
invited to call and inspect her goods
In this line.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09

Miss X. Wahl extends cordial
invitation to all ladies to visit her
millinery parlors, that they
may see what may be considered
correct and stylish for fall and
winter wear, Felt fedoras, walk
ing hats and sailors in all the latest
shapes and shades, and also IL new
line of pattern hats, are being re-
ceived daily.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09
For Sale.

offer for sale my new dwelling
house on Main street, at very
reasonable price. Inquire of
Mrs. CHARLES CULLNAN,
(9-25-tf) L'Anse, Mich.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09

"Miss Amelia" says she will
positively refuse the Deacon, at
the Opera House Saturday evening,
October 10th.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09

On motion Frank Johnson was
granted permission to tap, at his
expense, the water main on Mesnard
street, under the supervision of tho
water COMMITTEES: Yeas, Belanger,
Bulger, Frenette and Johnston;
nays, none.
On motion the council adjourned
until Monday, October 11th, A. ID.
1897, at 8 clock, p. IN.
MARTIN VoETscH, Clerk.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09

Don e fail TO see JPete and Billy"
digging for gold on the Klondike,
at the Opera House Saturday even
ing, October 10th.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09
Tried to Butt His Brains Out.

An exchange tells a story of a
young man who had been calling on
his lady love; was about to bid her
good night. when she took occasion
to remind him that he made her
think of Venus of Milo. This tickled
the vanity of the young man great
ly. thinking that she referred to his
elegant build and manly form. How
ever, when he got home he consulted
an encyclopedia, when to his chagrin
and disgust he found that Venus OF
Milo had no arms. 1t is said that
he went down in the cellar and tried
to butt his brains out against a soft
pumpkin. Moral: Young men
should keep posted in art and
science. Pittsburg States
man.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09

John St. Cyr, brakeman on one
of the South Shore ore trains, was
killed near Marquette Thursday.
He fell between the cars.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09

Reserved seats for "The Deacon "
will be on sale at S. T. Harris drug
store Monday morning.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09

Joseph Hennes. of Houghton, met
with a terrible, and doubtless what
will prove fatal accident, Friday
afternoon of last week. While
driving on sthe Ontoaagon road in
company with two friends, he at
tempted to drive under tree, which
half fallen, projected across the
road. Mr. Hennes was caught i'm
such q manner that his back was
broken. He is still alive, but no
hopes are entertained for his re-
covery.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09

The Deacon" takes lemonade
''with stick in it,, at the Opera
House Saturday evening, October
18th
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-14
dies Underwe'r

MINER stock is becoming broken
will fill prices by marking down.
Lisle Vests, fine ribbed.
nmed, that are worth A0n
oo~ .~.,, we will offer for, each..... + ~
We have a few left of those beautiful
Silk Ribbed Vests that you have been
paying 75c for, which we will AQn
close at, each........................ 7OV
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-14
Union Victories.

The building trades at San
Antonio, Tex, have established
the eight hour day.
The street car men at Hous-
ton, Tex, have forced a recog-
nition of their union, reduced
hours to 10 per day and at the
same time increased their
wages.
The Indianapolis carpenters
have established the eight hour
work day, unionized the works
of the largest building con-
tractor in the state, and furn-
ished employment to many ad-
ditional union carpenters.
The Chicago glass workers
who recently asked for a raise
commensurate with the Nc
kinley prosperity promiseszn
about 35 per cent-have been
offered Is.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-14

cry the masters had to be watching
constantly to prevent the escape of
their slaves, and were troubled with
the charge of providing for them.
Your system was more convenient,
in that it made nature your task
master, and depended on her to
keep your servants to the task. It
was difference between the direct
exercise of coercion, in which the
slave was always on the point of
rebellion, and an~indirect coercion
by which the same industrial re-
suit was obtained, while the slave,
instead of rebelling against his
masters authority, was grateful
for the opportunity Of serving him.
All human beings are equal in
rights and dignity, and only such
system of wealth distribution
can, therefore, be defensible as re-
spects and secures those equalities.
The main factor in the production
of wealth among civilized men is
the social organism, the machinery
of associated labor and exchage, by
which hundreds of millions of in
dividuals provide the demand for
one another's products and mutu-
ally complement one another's
labors, thereby making the pro
ductive and distributive systems
of a nation and the world one great
machine. Society collectively can
be the only heir to the social ipher-
itance of intellect and discovery,
and it is society collectively which
furnishes the continuous daily con-
course by which alone that inherit
ance is made effective.
If the cleverest worker were linn
tied to his own product, stricty sep
arated and distinguished from
the elements by which the use of
the social machinery had multi
piled it, he would fare no better
than a half starved savage. Every
body is entitled not only to his own
product, but to vastly more
namely, to his share of the product
of the social organism, in addition
to his personal product, but he is
entitled to this share not only on
the grab-as-grab-can plan of your
day, by which some made them
selves mil1ionaires and others were
left beggars, but on equal terms
with all his fellow capitalists.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-14
New Fall
Dress Goods

All our own importations-came in
under the old tariff-and will be sold at
low tariff prices.
New Black Goods in Crepon effects,
the newest thing extant that rider the
new tariff would cost you $3.50 Or
per yard-now.......... .....~........" VOV
In new Colored Dress Goods wehave the
"Mexicaine' and "Mingora" mixtures
that you will pay $1.25 for later-Q0n
now, per rd..........................."..OJO
The '''Linadrella" fancies, corded in
beautiful effects, that under the new
tariff would cost you $1.75 a q m
yard, we shall offer you at, yd.Ip 4.UU
Our Olivias" and "Richmonts" Silk and
Wool mixtures that any time are good,
values at 81 a yard, you can buy 76n
now at-per yard. rd........"...........1 W
We received in this lot about 20 pieces
new Silk and Wool Scotch Plaids that,
had they come in later, would have cost
you 65c-now only. 6fln
per yard. ........"........"........OVV
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-14

A suit has been brought in the
district court at Aitkin to COM
pei the county auditor to place
railroad lands in that county
on the tax list. The trial will
come off September 6 and the
state will be represented by
ATTORNEY General Childs. The
suit is of Importance because it
is test case in which the St.
Paul & Duluth, Northern Paci'
fic, Minneapolis & Pacific and
the Wisconsin, Minnesota &
Pacific railroads are all inter:
ested.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-14
PANTON e. WHITE.

The new school board has elec-
ted E. R. Coqb clerk and j. Le-
Tourneau treasurer. The latter's
salary was fixed at 5000 per
year. A motion to make the
clerks salary $65 per month was
lost on a tie vote. Brearly, Bow
man and LeTourneau voting no,
the first named explained that
$50 per month was too little.
The present salary of the clerk is
5000 per year.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-14
PANT0N S White
GLASS BLOCK STORE.
Always first Urv11 lno
to show the IN

We place sale the advance guard of the New Fall
Stuffs-sonle of them foreign-some of them home
produceach Of them prettybut it's difficult for to tell
which is the prettier
Come in and see them and tell whether you like
home the foreign product the BETTER Look in show
windows and see some of the things in Dress Stus
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-14
Glove Dept.

New Fall Gloves-our own Importation
under low tariAc-should receive your
immediate attention. ~
4-button genuine Kid Gloves, narrow
embroidered back, better than anye On
you have seen at Soc. ...................VVV
Lapies, Pure SILK Mitts, the 25c r.
quality, all go at hn
per PAIR w
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-14

fathers. who eat so much, and the
women, our mothers, who eat more
than we" H..
And the Masters of the Bread,
having taken for their use and
pleasure such of the men, the wO-
men and the little ones as they saw
fit, passed by. And there was left
a great multitude in the market
place forwhom there was no bread.
/. SELECTED EXTRACTS. -.
fused to give in to the talk about
the pricelessness of the right of
suffrage. and the denunciation OF
those whom any stress of poverty
could induce to sell it for money,
but from the point of view to which
you have brought me this morning
I am inclined to think that the tel
lows who sold their votes had a
clearer idea of the sham of our So
called popular government, as linn
tied to the class of functions l have
described, than any of the rest of
us did, and if they were wrong it
was in asking too high price.
The overthrow of the kings left
no check at all on the power of the
rich, which became supreme. The
people. indeed, nominally were SOW
eigns; but as the sovereigns were
Individually and as class the eco
nomic serfs of the rich, and lived at
their mercy, the so-called popular
government became the mere stalk
ing horse of the capitalist, type
far less admirable on the whole
than decent monarchies. In re-
spect, especially, to their suscepti-
bility to corruption and plutocratic
subversion, they were. the worst
kind of government possible. The
nineteenth century, during which
this crop of pseudo-democracies
ripened for the sickle of the great
revolution, seems to the modern
view nothing but a dreary interreg-
mum of nondescript, faineant gov
ernment intervening between the
decadence of virile monarchy in the
eighteenth century and the rise of
positive democracy in the twen-
tieth. The period may be COM
pared to that of a minority of a
king, during which the royal power
is abused by wicked Stewards. The
people had been proclaimed as SOW
ereign, but they had not yet as
sumed the scepter. "
While we insist on equality, we
detest uniformity, and seek to pro-
vide free play to the greatest posi-
BILE variety of tastes in our expend-
iture. ..,..
Slavery exists where there is a
compulsory using of men by other
men for the benefit of the users. /
think we are quite agreed that the
poor man in your day worked for
the rich only because his necessi.
ties compelled him to. That com.
pulsion varied in force according to
the decree of want the worker
was in. -s.'
With the mass of workers the
compulsion of necessity was Of the
sharpest kind. The chattel slave
had the choice between working
for his master and the lash. The
wage earners choose between labor.
ing for an employer or starving
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-14

Ladies' black Figured Brilliantine
Dress Skirts, good value at a. 76
1925, each...... ......"...............I4 LII y