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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-01-23
FIRST pub. Jan. 10, isg'; last Feb 20, 1871.
NOTICE FIR PUBLIcAIIoS
Land Onice at Marquette. Mich.
January - iSn-

-|@111 q,
January II, 1897
Notice Is hereby given thar The f,ro,.tr,,
named settler has filed notice Of her iutantinn
20 m-se nnal proof IN support OF her claim,
ani tlhi said proof will bc made before In,
tIrrk ~ The Circuit Court OF Baraga county
at L Anse, Mich, on F-bruary % isg7 81
LOS d"ry Mcneil I'D. application No 7gsJ Tor
t -. : OF nv 4 and +. Of 5 W \. see. 80. u
sac lanes the following witnesses IN ,,rnv.
mr. continuous residence upon nd cultiyntinn
o shid rand, namely; John NcNaiI. ~
1tra'a' Wien DGminick Copp James Gri IN
',ie Jane Case, .; COylnst2l. Mich,
PETER rRIAEAU,
Register.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-01-23
BURNED TO TIE STAKE.
Awful End of Negro Murderers
i'm louisiana.

New ORLEANS, La, Jan. 20 -
mob Of 200 men broke into the ANTE
lCity jail last night and secured
John Johnson. Archie Joiner ant
Gus Williams, negro murlerars.
! A force of deputies guarded the
Jail and made a stubborn resistance,
but were ovtrpowerrd.
Williams was hanged in front OF
the Jail
! The mob then proceeded from
Amite with the other two, to Tick
Jaw, La. where. at 3 o'clock this
morning, Johnson was burned at the
stake, and Joiner was shot to death.
Johnson was taken to the home Of
the Cotton family, his victims, bound
20 the stake. the torch applied to the
fagots. slowly tortured to cath.
He denied some OF his former state
ncnts and blamed Joiner. bat adj
m tied that h. was guilty of the
murders with which he was charged
Joiner was told to make a state
mcnt before he was put to death, and
he protested his innocence. His
body was filed with bullets from
lac guns Of the mob.
Johnson is the s.lt-confessed muir
/ .rer OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Cotton.
Mrs Agnes Stevenson, Mrs. Lizzie
Miller and Mervin Miller. On Sept.
y VIII le the family slept they were
hacked to death with an AK. One OF
the family lived long enough to tell
Il was Johnson who did the bloody !
work II was ca ltured few miles 7
way and lodged in the jail at New
vi ns safe keeping. Yester- I
lay he was returned TO Amite to ,
await trial.
Williams, the first man lvnched. |
N dered his wife some days ago.
No change is reported in the Stu.
alton al the South Heca mine.
The deadly gas continues to escape.
,lowing the Ere is still burning.
u Is expected several d vs. will be
required before the timbers in the
stop are consumed, as the fire is
tiven no draft and its course viii be I
.orraSpond'ngly slow. No ATTEMPT
will lie made 10 open the stooa until !
the gas ceases 10 cScaDl
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-01-23
The Official Paper Of Baraga County
COUNTY OFFICE IT..

JAY A. HuBB IL, Circuit Judge, Hoaghton.
joins H. HID. Sh riff. L'Anse.
Wa. <. TANlLAsD, Z tuseCattng Attorney. Pc
1GlminF.
r. +. SroSz, Judge % Probate. BIraga
G.. o. seE 'Lra, Courty Clerk and Register Of
Deeds. 1. An-e
II. WILCOX Treasurer. L'hnse.
JAMES NCREECHEr, County uTyeyoT, Spgi
HOund.h.
T.. L. ~roSE, Circuit Court Commissioner.
Blra -.
Ii. J. ,EiFERr md J. Q. NcKEgSAN. L'Ausc,
aud RICHARD FEoRE, haraga, Poor Commits
siprcrs.
-IP RNi~Og>.
RoGEH G. WILLIAMS. L'Anse Township.
l.. J GALLAGHER. Baraga Township.
W. B.ES Arvpn TOwnshir.
ALEX DISC =. Spar ~ 1ship
JoH, LYoSs Coyington Township.
BOARD or SCHOOL ENAdI>ER-.
NJ J. McEASSA, Coanty School Commits
sipncr. Baragt..
NJ. :. sc ABE. L'Ause.
Miss Catherine Curry, L'A1Se,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-01-23

- " sHACLL. Lawyer, Fir., tl,,or =. v,,,,,.
Eank Book. Marquette, Mich. All legal
''-''',- VIII receive prompt ana careful at
i2-s,-y-I
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15
A SagaciOus Otter.

In Forest and Stream there is a
story about Tommy, tame otter that
lived in Grayling, Mich. Tommy was
captured by saloonkeeper on the
Sauble river, and he soon became do
mesticated. wandering to and fro for
two or three miles along the river,
fishing and hunting, visiting the
houses of the region. and always re-
turning home. Tommy grew to be a
good friend of other domestic aui-
mails, rolling over and over with the
dogs, and trying hide and seek with
the cats. Not all cats were friendly
toward the otter. Some cats offended
the otter, but they never did SO twice.
Tommy would grab hostile cat by
the back, carry it to the nearest piece
of water, and hold it under until bub-
bles ceased to come up.
Tommy could fight dogs rs we'll as
cats. One day big bulldog came
through Grayling, and, not being used
to otters, grabbed Tommy and almost
killed him. Tommy recovered and
lay in wait for the bulldog. One af-
ternoon the dog came to town again
with its master aad picked n fight with
another dog. Tommy happened
around about that time aud while the
town dog held the bulldog the otter
nearly ate the bulldog up. "He
would nip great mouthfuls of flesh
out of him, and pull and lug him till
he had about killed the dog, when the
town boys took Tommy off" says the
writer. Tommy knew all the Gray
ling fishermen, and was always glad to
go fishing with them. When he had
caught all the fish he wanted to eat he
fished for the fishermen, catching
more fish than all of them put to-
gether. When a man shot Tommy
the whole town mourned
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

Besides sugar and rice, the staple
other fruits are largely grown. Food
products are abundant, especially OF
the kind suitable to a hot climate, says
Paradise of the Pacific"
The native food consists largely of
the turo plant, OF which the best va
rieties are grown i'll the shallow ponds
of fresh water. From this plant is
made the poi. which is the ordinary
food of the kanakn.
The sweet potato grows even among
the rocks aud hourishes abundantly
in good soil, while the common pota-
to sometimes grows well, though it is
often injured by worms.
The quality of the coffee raised is
equal to the choicest.
The climate is also very favorable
to the growth of the long staple sea-
island cotton; but as this variety must
be picked by hand, the high price oi
labor in the islands renders it's culture
Improbable.
Tropical fruits of nearly all kinds
grow in the richest abundance, the
orange, lemon, lime, mango, pine
apple, hirimoya, or custard apple, the
alligator pear, ,pomegranate and Suava,
all of which are exotic.
The banana is Indigenous, and IL
the most abundant of all fruits; be.
sides il there are the ohia apple-a
fruit peculiar to the Pacific islands,
soft, juicy and mildly acid many
varieties of palms, the choicest trees oi
India, the caoutchouc, the papaya, the
travellers tree of Madagascar ano
other foreign plants.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15
Avoiding Entanglements.

Sprightleigh-Hello. old man, what
are you moping here for? Why aren't
you dancingP
Fauxpas-To avoid entanglements.
Sprightleigh-I didn't know you
were so desirable.
Fauxpas-Huh Tn not. Fact is,
first dance l had caught my foot
in my partners dress and ripped O
mile or two of trimming off it; next
time, some awkward fool tripped me,
and we both went down on our hands
and knees opposite each other, as
though we were barking at each other,
and the last, ! caught my cuff-button
in Miss Fluffy's hair, and it took me
an hour to get loose. Next time
dance it'll be ghost dance: e::"- Har
per's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15
Hunting in Dreams.

james Bolton, New Yorker who
visits the Adiroudacks every year to
hunt deer. has lean-to camp on a
stream in Northern Herkimer couu-
ty, where he entertains his friends.
He sees things and does things some
times in his dreams that make him a
source of anxiety to his friends and
his guides.
Last fall Sam Cooley, one of Mr..
Bottoms guides, was lying in the
guides shelter half awake, when he
SAW some one slip out of the owners
camp with Il rifle in his hands. What
was more serious, the figure was slip
ping 39-calibre shells into the maga-
zine. Cooley OWNED the situation
instantly. and started toward the man,
whom he recognized as Bolton, but
Bolton got beyond the freight before
the guide could reach him, and then
stopped and seemed to be steering off
into the woods.
Up came the rifle, and seven shots
were fired, each sounding like can
mons roar in the perfect night quiet
of the woods. Everybody except Boil
ton woke up, and the dogs let out
howls of wonderment. Meantime
Cooley had grabbed water pail half
full of water and thrown the contents
over Bolton just MS he was about to fire
again. 1t was Bottoms turn to howl
then. The cold water woke him up,
and he was inclined to swear at the
guide before he realized the danger he
had been in. He had been shooting,
he thought, ut buck deer. All the
bullets were found next day in II hem
lock stump, and they could have been
covered with hat.
Mr.. Bolton once went still hunting,
little after midnight. and was not
found until 7 a. m. He had awakened
once during his trip, but had been un-
able to make his way back to camp.
A fisherman fell asleep while fishing
for black bass at Philadelphia. N. Y,
one day and dreamed he had bite.
He yanked his pole up and one
pound bass swung into his face. On
waking up he found that he had pulled
up his pole, but instead of bass, a
tin can swung against his cheek. -
New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15
The TeredO and the Cable.

An Atlantic cable has, fortu-
nately, few animal enemies, al
though in the English Channel,
the Irish Sea, and the North Sea
the teredo, the special cable pest of
the Mediterranean, does some mis-
chief. This miserable little mollusk,"
as the cable men call it, first made
itself reputation by eating up
wooden ship hulks, until builders
took to plating them with iron,
and by burrowing into the dikes in
Holland until the whole country was
threatened with inundation. When
the cable came, it took to it at once.
1t wriggles its way in between the
steel wires of the most tightly wrapped
core, and eats away iute and guttaper-
cha until there is nothing but wire
skeleton left. Happily, however, as
already indicated, our own particular
cable has little to fear from the tere-
do; and the best wish we can give it,
as it lies at the bottom of the Allan
tic, is that it may never have his
tory,sapd that the time may be long
Before f6s aFraraday secs it again.
Henry Muirain Mc6anrs'aI 5fi s9fA5
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15
Fire-Alarm Boxes.

Charles L. Hill contributes m arti-
Gle entitled can Alarm of Fire by
Telegraph" to ST. Nicholas, describ-
ing the fire-aarm system of New York.
Concerning the fire-alarm boxes, Mr..
Hill writes: This box forms part of a
lamp-post, the post being SO con-
structed thut the box is irrerted in the
middle. The box is painted bright
red, and tho lamp ut night shows a red
light, thus making it easily discerni-
bic either by day or night. The wires
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

from the box are conveyed down
through the center of the post to cou-
duits buried in the street, and thence
on to fire headquarters.
White letters on n rod pane of glass,
in the lamp over the box, give direc-
tions how to send an alarm, the same
directions in raised letters are found
on the face of the box. II we turn
the large brass handle on the outside
as far as it will go loud gong will
ring inside. This is not the alarm,
but simply a warning bell to notify
the policeman on the beat that the box
is being opened and to prevent the
sending in of malicious or false alarms
OF fire, an offense that is punishable
in New York State by fine OF $100
and one years imprisonment. Turn
ing this handle as far as it will go
opens the outer door, and we find in
side another door, with a slot at the
left hand side, and ut the top of this
slot a hook projecting. BY pulling
down this hook once and releasing it.
we set at work certain clockwork me-
chanism inside, and this sends in
the alarm.
When the first officer arriving at a
fire discovers that it is of enough i'm
portance to warrant his sending for
reinforcements, he opens this inner
door and with the "Morse key" sends
in second, third, fourth, fifth, or
sixth alarm, as the case may be, or a
call for any special apparatus that he
may need. The inspectors of boxes
can also carry on conversation in the
Morse alphabet with the operator ut
headquarters on this key and sounder.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15
Bull Fighting,

CARL, the -Mexicano. says: 81
would rather see bull fight than any,
thing on earth, but it is the most bru-
tai sport known, and the Mexicans are
a barbarous people. I saw mare
named Molly enter the ring. She was
complete wreck, with hardly strength
enough to get out - the bulls way.
The horses used in bull fighting are
invariably cast-of1s, unfit for any pur.
pose OF business or pleasure. The
bull, an unusually lusty fellow, ripped
Molly's flank open SO that her bowels
fell to the ground. She soon went
down, falling upon her side and i'm
prisoning her rider. The bull would
have made short work of him had not
assistance come. The bull never has
a chance. When he enters the ring
he goes to die. Poor Molly! Hers
was a sad fate."- New York Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15
Sweet Content

Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slrm-
bers?
o sweet content
Art thou rich yet in thy mind perplexed ?
punishment
Dost thou laugh to see how fools are
veXed?
To add to golden numbers, golden num-
bers?
o sweet content o sweet content
Can'st drink the waters of the crisped
spring?
sweet content
Swimmest thou in wealth yet sinketh in
thine tears?
o punishment
Then he that patiently wants burden
bears,
No burden bears, but is a king. a king
. sweetcontent o sweet content!
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15
History OF Steam Power

The power OF steam, says the st.
Louis Globe Democrat, was known to
Hero of Alexandria, who exhibited
what seems from the description to
have been n small steam engine to
Ptolemy Philndelphus and his court,
about 100 b. G. Piny describes Il
small boat, built by "magician" of
Rome, which moved by means of a
wheel, "driven by ii pot of hot water.
Watts invention of II rotary steam
engine was patented in 1869. The
first railway locomotive was built bv
Trevthic!,, in 1894 the first practical
locomotive was perfected by Stephen
son in 1929. As early as 1907 Denys
Papin built model of steamboat
which was destroyed by a mob of
bontmen. The first practical steam
boat was built by William Symington
in 1902. In 1903 Robert Fulton, in
connection with Chancellor Livings-
ton, built steamboat, which was
tried on the Seine. In 1907 the
Cleromout began trips from New. .Yorl
to Albany.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15
Measuring Starlight,

Among the current inventions re.
corded in the scientific papers is that
of an instrument by an English in
ventor for accurately measuring the
quantity of light given out by star,
stars being designated as of the first
down to the twentieth magnitude, nc
cording to the intensity of the light
from them. By this new device the
rough designation of magnitude is
represented by numbers, which give
the exact ratio of one star to another
in light-giving power, the star Arc
turus, for example, being estim ated
by this means to give rs 3-4 times the
light of Regulus. The amount of light
which reaches the earth from the
stars varies according to the state o.
the atmosphere, and it is claimed that
this instrument will be of valuable
service not only in astronomy, but in
meteorology also.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

A writer in the Detroit Journal has
attempted TO provide Major Mckinley
with long line OF illustrious ances-
tors. He traces the Canton Napoleon s
lineage in direct line back to Dun
can McDua, the celebrated Thane who
was born about theyear 1000, aud who
was afterwards made famous 10y Shak-
speare, who told of some interesting
experienc ,s this Scottish chieftain had
with Macbeth, who had trouble with
his hands and one Bluquo, gentle
man, with ghost.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

The New Orleans Picuyune re-
MARKS: The States are not cllnish
Illinois has never yet had n native
governor. Texas has had but one, and
30 with many other states. We are
one people That is the right spirit.
The loyal American doesn't ask the
sta.e from which IL man hnils. We all
stand behind one flag and are one peo-
pie, and president and Congress should
guard alike the interests of every
state. State pride is well enough, but
should never be allowed to grow into
selhsAncss and claunishness.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

1t has been a theory long accepted
by miners as gospel that gold ore
vein disappears alter reaching GER
tain depth and many mines in Cali
fornia have be+n Abandoned on inst
this groond. a discovery was made
the 0-her day, however, that upsets all
this. In the Kennedy mine in the
Grass valley rich vein thirty feet
wide has been discovered at Il depth OF
., 100 feet, and the deeper it goes the
wider the vein becomes. The dis
covery muy lead to revolution in the
mining methods in California.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

With the failure, already clearly
foreshadowed, of the wheat crop in
Australia, there will necessarily be a
heavy demand in thut country for
American grain during the next year.
The Australian shortage, roughly es-
timatod at 5000, 900 bushels, will
open a ready market for the wheat
growers OF the Pacific slope, and will
naturally tend toward higher prices
for the American cereal all over the
country.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

The successful English stock pro-
moter Hooley, who recently cleared
$4,000, 600 for himself und his usso-
cIates by operations i'll Dunlops
(pneumatic tires for bicycle.), has re-
c:iyed II novel appeal from the work
ers IN the compuuy's factories in Cow
entry. They ask him to subscribe to
iunl for promoting II strike organ
izel By them. Since he succeeded in
mahlIg great fortune in the course
OF few weeks out OF Dunlops, they
assume that he may help them to get
another penny for au hours work.
Labor conflicts in Merry England are
not without their grim pleasantries.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

Wheeling, W. Va, is small city
which clnlms to have solved the cheap.
er-gas problem through municipal
ownership, 1t is city Of 4J, 90 in
habitnnts, not large enough, it may
be said, to have invited corruption in
tue conduct of its public business. Up
TO 1871 the people of Wheeling paid
private concern SO. 50 per thousand
for inferior gas, Then the city bought
the gas plant for 80, COZ, and reduced
the price to 50. A few years later the
price was successfully lowered to 50
nnd to 81. 80, and in 1885 it wus made
81, with % percent discount foi
prompt payment, practically 10 cents.
There is hope of even II further re
dnc,ion. The gas is reported to be OF
the best quality, and the plant ha.
been rebuilt and modernized witt
the profits. In addition $40, 900 has
been paid out OF the surplus on an
expenditure of S12O,O 900 for au cleo
tric light plant for street ilumina-
ton, aud this plant is being run on
the profits of the municipal gas. There
are said to be no restrictions to pre-.
vent private gas or electric companies
from autpri no tho fal1 b1t Of oourss
none has attempted to compete with
the municipality.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

Because of the difficulty of collect
ing the poll tax in Colorado, Govern
or McIntire has recommended That
poll tax receipt be made a qualidca-
ton for voting.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

Says the Brooklyn Elgle; The most
sensible thing yet proposed for the
celebration of Queen Victoria's next
coronation anniversary is to make a
little public park or playground in
every village in England.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

1t has long been known that Pitts
burg is one Of the dirtiest of civilized
cities, but the fact that Plttsburg
laundryman who recently died was
able to carry S4OO, 900 life insurance is
additional evidence on this point.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15

A circular has been issued to all the
village chiefs throughout Egypt, beg
ging them to spare the monuments OF
the past as far as possible in all future
Quarrying operations.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-15
Equipped.

some of your wife's lungs is gone
my dear SIR"
F"That doesn't do me any good, doc
tor, the one she has left is a star. ~
Truth.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-05-14
Trouble for Two.

Two classes Of people have failed to
prosper since the election of Mckinley.
One of these classes is composed of sill
yer advocates, the other the trusts. The
election of Mckinley and the rejection
of the free silver proposition started
similar action by some other nations
which had been looked to as support
ers of the silver theory, and the friends
of free coinage have witnessed with
dismay the transfer of Japan, Russia
and China to the gold standard col
umn. The trusts have also Jared as
badly. The railroad corporations,
the sugar trust, the standard oil trust
and many minor organizations of this
character have received stunning blows
within the few months since the cleo
ton of 1896, and will suffer still more
when the new tariff law goes into eff
feet and deprives them of the advan-
tages which they have enjoyed under
the Wilson law.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-05-14

than it is to sell three bushels to Amer
lean consumers The fact that the
home market aDsorbs so per cent Of
our agricultural products counts for
nothing with Mr. Wilson. He doesn't
consider that this market needs or de-
serves any protection, and he would
neglect it or impair its purchasing
power by forcing it's industrial ele-
ments into wage-cutting competition
with foreign labor. The farmers real
interest lies in system that will main
tain and expand the domestic demand
Tor his produce, and this is to be found
in tariff that will open the mills, pro-
vide employment for labor and encour-
age the extension of native enterprise.
Agricultural prosperity cannot exist
without industrial prosperity. They
are dependent on each other. When
one thrives the other will thrive with
1t, and the man who attempts to con-
vince the farmer and the mechanic
that their interests are conflicting Is
an enemy to both.-Mail and Express.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-05-14
The States Right Knocked Ou<.

Notice has been served upon the
state officials that the United States
land office officials haze held that the
claim of n. =. Brood to a homestead
right on part of the old Sioux reser-
vation is good as against the claim of
the state on the land for school land.
The papers show that Brood settled
upon the land before it was surveyed.
in 1868. and built a house. That he
has lived upon it ever since with his
family and declares his intention of
taking it as homestead. After it was
surveyed it was found that it was Il
part of section 80 in township 30 north,
range 13 west. Under the act of con
gress opening the tract to settlement
the sections numbered 16 and sc in
each congressional township were to
be set apart to the state as school land
Brood gets his decision under the rul-
ing of the land office that by the pro-
visions of another general act his prior
settlement in good faith gives him q
prior right. In several particulars the
case is new one to the land depart
ment. and if the decision is allowed to
stand it will affect large number of
other claims throughout the country
which were taken under like circun-
stances.