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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14

AT last we know exactly how old
The earth is, for Lord Kelvin, the emf
nent British Savant. has. after the
calculation Of years, reached the def
mite conclusion that this terrestrial
sphere has been such for 30 900, 900
years. This is not the chimerical
assertion Of thcOrist. but the result
Of a long and laborious study by
perhaps the man best qualified of all
10 make an authoritative statement
to m. ha%"Hi'y' says the NewOYork
IT is of the utmost importance TO
biologists, many of whom have
doubted whether there was any data
ON which definite calculation could
be based. This doubt Lord Kelvin
has removed, and he gives absolute
events OF different periods Of the
world : history which he states are
perfectly susceptible to proof sufiic-
cnt to satisfy the most carping critic
Lord Kelvin has just issued "a
formal statement in the matter
which outlines his belief and the
reason therefor In support of his
statement that there must have been
Il definite beginning Of the world
just as surely as there will be a
definite end, ne referred to his re-
futatiOn Of the doctrine Of uniformity
in geology, with its accompanying
proof that if heat had been uniformly
conducted out Of the earth at its
present yearly rate the globe twenty
million years ago would have been a
molten, ii not a gaseous mass.
Another argument against the
huge lengths Of time required by the
older biologists is sought from the
constantly diminishing velocity OF
the earth rotation. owing to the
tides. 1t is shown that thousand
million years ago the earth was re.
volving faster than at present, and
consequently that the centrifugal
force was greater If the globe had
become consolidated when travelling
at this faster rate, it would have
possessed greater oblateness, and
the length of its equatorial radius
would have been 81 kilometers more
than at present. To Judge by the
properties of rocks and by under.
ground temperatures, the date of the
qualification OF the earth was most
probably 20 or 30 million years ago.
The origin OF the atmosphere is then
discussed. At the time Of solidifica-
ton there could have been no free
oxygen, so far as can be seen, and no
che meal reaction by which it would
be liberated. Vegetable life and sun
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
FREE PILLS.

Send your address to II. E. Bucklen q
Co., Chicago, and get free sample box
OF Dr.. Kings New Life Pills. A trial
will convince you OF their merits. These
pills are easy 10 action and are particul-
arly effective IN the cure OF Constipation
aud Sick Headache. For Malaria aud
Liver troubles they have been proved in
valuable. They are guaranteed TO be
perfectly free from every deleterious
substance and to be purely vegetable.
They do not weaken by their action, ou,
by giving tone TO stomach and bowels
greatly ihvlgorote the ~ stem. Regular
Size CSC. per box. Sold by 5. I. Harris,
Druggist.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
Michigan Crop Report.

The average yield of wheat per acre
as estimated by correspondents this
month, is for the state 1881 bushels;
( southern counties. 14S5 bushels
central counties. Ills bushels, and
northern counties 1905, bushels,
, Compared with the estimate Of July
/ | there is an increase in the state
and southern counties Of about one
and one half bushels, in the central OF
y. IS. and in the southern G. 65 bushels.
Comparatively little threshing had
been done when the reports were
forwarded, out correspondents very
generally report wheat turning out
better than expected. A few eXcep-
tionally high yields are noted but
these at the most indicate no more
than that good crop has been har-
vested. A few such yields are al
ways obtained in good wheat years.
Actual threshings OF more than
single Jobs are reported as follows:
Berrlen county, SD acres, yield
HIS bushels, average per acre
1871 bushels; Branch county. 105
acres. yield 2,103 bushels, average
per acre 90. OF bushels; Cass county.
SOS acres, yield II, $50 bushels, aver
age peracre, 10. 50 bushels Van Buren,
county, ] Is acres, yield, .537 bush
els. average per acre. 1903 bushels.
The crop has generally been Sc
cured in fine condition and Of good
quality. The heavy rains in the
central part of the state just at the
close of harvest did some damage
but it is not extensive. In new fields
the grain sprouted. In answer to
question as EQUALITY 342 corresponds
ents in the southern counties report
II good; 30 average and 3 bad: in
the central counties s. report il
good. II average. and bad. and in
the northern counties 43 report il
good, u average and / bad.
The number Of bushels of wheat
reported marketed in July is 665. 294
as compared with $50. 622 reported
marketed in July, 1896, and the
amount marketed in the twelve
months, ACCESSIBILITY, is 10, $50. SO
bu shells as compared with $3.50. l04
bushels in the same months last year
The average condition of corn in
the state is 81, comparison being
with average years. In the southern
counties il is ST. central 90. and north
ern -. Corn made rapid growth in
July. July ! the figures for the state,
southern and northern counties were
30. One year ago the average condi-
tiOn in the southern counties was l04
Oats are estimated to yield about
70 bushels per acre. The crop is
not yet all secured, and the work
has been somewhat delayed by rain.
Potatoes promise about seven
tenths, and beans ninetenths, of an
average crop.
The yield per acre of clover and
timothy hay is slightly more than in
average years. Meadows and past
ures are now in fine condition. The
average condition of clover sowed
this year is, in the state 81, southern
counties 80, central 9S and northern
81.
Apples now promise in the state
about one-third. in the southern
counties one-fourth. and in the cen
trial counties two fifths. of an average
crop. WASHINGTON GARDNER,
Secretary of State.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14

The confession Of Peter Bons. who
murdered Miss Pearl Morrison at
Crystal Falls two weeks ago, reveals
one Of the most coidbloodcd muir
dercrs and dastardly cases of mora
depravity on record. When such
ficnds in human form exist, no
wonder that pcaceab!c community
is melted to lynching, No punish,
mcnt could be too severe for the
murderer. but the citizens would
hardly be justified in taking the law
into their own hands. Whatever
course the law takes should be
abidrd by, providing the law does
its duty.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
Take a Lake Tour to Island of
Cool BreezcS.

Go to Mackinac Island, Mich, via
the Coast Line. The ID. & G.. new
steel passenger steamers leave To
ledo Mondays and Saturdays, 1890
Il. m, and Tuesdays and Thursdays,
4:3O p. IN. From Detroit, Mondays
and Saturdays, ll:OO p. M, Wednes.
days and Fridays, 900 a. IN. Send
2 cents for illustrated pamphlet,
Address, A. A. ScHANTz, G. p. A.,
Detroit, Mich.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
Hancock n Calumet X. Rad
ditiOnal Sunday Trains.

Commencing Sunday, June 9th,
and continuing until further notice,
the train leaving Lake Linden at
l2:l5 p. m. for Hancock and leaving
Hancock at l:5O p. m. for Lake lin
den. will run daily. These trains
will be run to secure direct connec-
tions at Houghton with the day
trains OF the D. S. S. Il A. R,y,from
and to Marquette, which are now
run daily.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
ASSININS NEWS.
Especial correspondence to THE SENTINEL.

Especial correspondence To THE SESrIyEL.)
Fishing is very poor.
Alex. Martin drove up from Bar
aga Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Crebassa were
visitors Tuesday
Our town looks deserted as mo t
of the people are at the berry fields
Quite number of Baraga people
were gathering berries in this vi
entity this week
p. r. Eber. of Chassell. was in
town Saturday on business connect
el with the S. Il. l.. Co.
Ed St. Arnoud and family. OF
Baraga, passed through here Friday
en- route to the berry fields.
Quite number of our people went
to Baraga yesterday to witness the
ball game between the Giants" and
Baragas.
Hugh Nesbitt, of Baraga. has
been having stone hauled from here
this week for the foundation to his
new house.
New potatoes are the next crop
Quite lot will be sent to the Bar.
aga markets, besides quantity to
the berry fields at Keweenaw Point.
I. w. Edwards, of Houghton,
visited his summer home at Fews.
vile this week. He expects his
family the first of next week to stay
month or two.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14

IT appears that the women as well
as the men in Kentucky are handy
with firearms. 4 Mrs. Lee Combs,
Of Clay county, returned uncxpect,
eddy from a visit and being some
what irritated at the presence Of d
young lady at her home, promptly
Shot and Killed her rival in her hus
band ; affections. Hereafter the
fame Of Kentucky will not rest on
its bluegrass whiskey and speedy
horses .... 81.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14

If Canada puts an export duty on
logs the lumbermen of this and other
states may be able to market their
products, which for two or three
years have been piled up in the yards
while consumers were buying Ca
madam lumber, We want u home
market for our own products first,
and after that we can tolerate com
petition from foreigners
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
The Official Paper Of Baraga County,
COITSTy OFfICER5.

JAY A. HUBBgLL, Circuit Judge, HouRhton'
JouS H. HID Sheriff, L'Anse.
wM x, HAyfLASD, Prosecuting Attorney. Pc.
quamnR. -
g.. o. BgEHLEK, County Clerk and Register OF
Deeds. L Anse.
II wilcox. Treasurer, L'huse.
JAMES McKERcHEs, County surveyor, Spur r
Mountain.
T.. L. SrosE, Circuit Court Commissioner
Baraga.
and RICHARD FEogE, Baraga, Poor Commits
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
Hotel Arrivals.

Hotel Vendome: r. Francis. H
B. Smith, Ontonagon; ]. w. Aston
Laird; j. G. Bates, Chicago; II. c.
Work. Watertown: ]. W. Richards.
Cleveland: Jas. Madden. C. G
Spencer, Duluth; A. NJ. Boex. De.
Pere. Wis: p. j. O'Connor. West
Superior Fred Smith. Detroit; Geo,
a. Newett Richard Hardy, J. c.
Watson, Ishpeming; r. Culver,
Marquette.
Bauer House: L. \. Fisher. S. D.
Johnston. a. W. Curry, Chicago
S. Seeing and son, Milwaukee; c.
Wagner, Munising: Misses Maggie
Wahl, Selma Menge, Mary Bulger
and Mary Shea, L Anse; d. S. Haw,
Nelson Martin. Houghton; Chas.
Butler, Marquette; NJ. Kelly. d.
Brown. Ontonagon; H.A. Randolps
Minneapolis, j. f. Hanna. Sheboy
gan; Albert Grant, Ishpeming; w.
a. Sanford. Hart. Mich.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14

KANSAS is not particularly con
cerned about the miners strike, be
cause she has wheat to burn
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14

The SENTINEL Office is headquar.
ters for everything in the job
printing line.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
SUPERVISORS.

.JoHS CAMPBELL. L'Anse Township.
CARL SCHMELISG, BaTaga Township
w. BEEN ArvOn Township.
FREDERICK TgEDEAU. spur Township
Jnss LYONS, Coyingtou Township.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
Clark, of the Marquettes, struck
out four men and Berriman six.
THE GAME SUNDAY.

THE GAME SUNDAY.
Sunday 5 game was taken by the
Queen City bows. the score being 9
and }. The five runs credited TO
Baraga were all made in the second
inning. Battery for Baraga, Ber-
riman, L. Rubillard and Nugent: for
Marquette, Frisk and Rivers,
Rubillard struck out five and Ber-
riman one, How the Baragas
scored those FIVE runs in the second
was principally through a home run
hit over the fence by Davenport
Curley made hit and scored Ed
Rubillard, Nugent and L. Rubillard
each singled. filling the bases. when
Davenport made his home run,
scoring all four. Marquette made
one in the first, four in the second,
two in the fourth, and two
in the sixth. The score:
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14

THEY BROKE EVEN.
Baragas Win One Game and
Lose One at Marquette.

Baraga's ball team is said to
have been playing very poor ball
this season, but they broke even
with the Marquettes on the latter
grounds in the games last Saturday
and Sunday. The scores each day
were almost identical-Saturday it
being . TO 8, and Sunday 9 to ).
Saturday, for Baraga, Berriman
did the twirling and Nugent was
behind the bat. For Marquette the
battery was Clark and Rivers. Up
10 the sixth inning the score was 3
and 4 in Baraga's favor. In the
first Baraga made two. and in the
fourth two. while the Marquettes
scored their three runs in the first
and second innings. Two more
were scored for Baraga in the sixth.
and for Marquette one, which left
the score 1 TO g. The seventh re-
suited protitless TO both sides. Mar
quette got two in the eighth, and a
goose egg in the ninth. The visitors
got one more in the eighth and two
in the ninth. Following is the sum
mary by innings:
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14

NJ. J. McKAYxA, County School Commits
siOner. Baraga. .....
Miss X. A. CURRY, L'Anse. -.t.
r.. A. CARPENTER, Spur Mt. ...........
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-06-10
Something to Know.

It may be worth something to know
that the very best medicine for restor-
ing that tired out nervous system to a
healthy vigor is Electric Bitters. This
medicine is purely vegetable, acts by
giving tone to the nerve centers in the
stomach, gently stimulates the liver
and kidneys, and aids these organs in
throwing off impurities in the blood.
Electric Bitters improve the appetite,
aid digestion, and is pronounced by
those who have tried it as the very best
blood purifier and nerve tonic Try it.
Sold for so cents and 81 per bottle at
Estate of Otto Schmahl's drug store. 2
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-06-10
A Popular Resort.

Lake Park Hotel at Lake Minnetonka
is the most popular tourist resort in
Minnesota. It is only half hours ride
from Minneapolis, and reached by fire.
quent trains. The accommodations
are in every way of the best, and prices
extremely reasonable. Good fishing,
boating, yachting and bathing. Hotel
will open for the season of 1897, on
June Oath. For further particulars, and
a beautifully illustrated pamphlet, adj
dress A. B. Cults, G. P. & T. A., M. &
st. L. R. r., Minneapolis, MINI. S8-8t
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-06-10

this practically "a foreign land" God
bless America and all that the express
sion implies. We, barring the visits
of the iron horse, are away back in the
middle of the seventeenth century,
burning tallow candles and eating
chill.
4Ansindustry, which promises much
to the intelligent man, is fruit. raising.
The finest of fruits can be grown here.
Peaches are especially healthy and
vigorous in their growth. Apples,
pears, cherries, grapes and apricots
thrive and bear abundantly. A
thought that has Often presented it.
self to my mind is that the silk indus
try might be carried on successfully
here. The climate is suitable for the
growth of the mulberry tree, and the
Mexican would be about the proper
kind of individual to rear and care for
the worms. Just atlpresent our peo-
pie are more engaged with politics
than anything else. The Mexican is
welded to his politics more closely
than the Jew is to the clothing bust
ness. The feeling between the diff
ferent parties is very bitter, and it fire.
quently happens that friendly dis
cussion of political issues result in
broken heads and sometimes in MUIR
der. Politics now takes the place of
the bull fight which used to be the
chief delight of this impulsive people.
S. b. LANYARD.
Santa Fe, n. VI.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-06-10
MINERAL NEW MEXICO.
Sam. Lankard Touches on the
States Great Resources.

To THE ED1ToR:-One might sup
pose from my former letters that New
Mexico is not good for anything. The
territory is very rich in mines and
minerals Of almost every description.
A few of the minerals which are very
abundant are gold, silver, coal, iron,
lead and mica. There are also i'm
mense fields of gypsum and marble
of the finest quality. Some day we
will have great manufacturing indus
tries here, which will supply this
mountain country and some of the
adjacent plains with many things
which are now imported from Europe
and the eastern States. No better op-
portunities are offered by any section
of the country for starting wooden
mills, tanneries and the manufacture
of the coarser kinds of clothing.
Our lead and copper should be
mined and:put upon the market. We
have cheap fuel, cheap labor and an
abundance of raw material at hand.
It only needs the magic touch of cap
ital and brains to set in motion forces
that will make great transformation
here. We need capital and live, en-
ergetic people to open up and develop
the native resources of the territory.
If we had the live people of the North
land here in ten years New Mexico
would be a perfect hive of industry.
We have too many people who are
content to sit on the sunny side of an
adobe wall and idle away days and
weeks of valuable time bask-
ing in the genial rays of old
Sol and smoking cigarettes. Like
the Chinaman the Mexican has wall
on the brain. Adobe walls, ten to
twelve feet in height, shut in every
garden and orchard and in some in
SCdUC0S CulLlNdLOu I0lOS. u0S0 Wills
rob the landscape of what little beau
ty it has and are an eye sore and nui-
sance in many ways. The Mexican is
natural born thief and very cruel by
nature. He will, in many instances,
steal things that are absolutely USE
less to himself. He will walk two
miles into the mountains to catch
horse or burro in order that he might
ride one-half mile to town. He is
proud of his Spanish ancestry and in
herits all the traits of that ancestry,
along with the general worthless
qualities of the Indians, which he has
left to him as legacy from his an
cestral mother. He despises and hates
the Gingo (American) on general
principals and only permits him to
live here because the law says that he
must do so. Many people suppose
that our native population is Spanish.
This is a mistake, as the Mexican is a
Mongrel, composed of a mixture of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-06-10
Herds Cattle and Horses.

On the fine grazing lands in West
line. Cattle herded for 20 cents per
month or $1.1O per season. Horses
herded for go cents per month or So per
season. Address Jos. McGeough, West
line p. O. 3S-6t
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the old Spanish conquerors and tn
different Indian tribes.

the old Spanish conquerors and the
different Indian tribes.
We paid visit recently to the lit
tie mining town of Cerrillos (pro-
nounced Se-re-as). This is a live,
bustling little place and illustrates
what brains and energy can do. Ex-
tensive coal mines are being worked
here and about seven hundred men
are employed in these mines. The
scenery between Cerillos and Santa Fe,
going overland, is very fine. We left
Santa Fe early in the morning and for
hours travelled across the plain toward
the mountains, which, looking from
Santa Fe, seemed just short distance
away to the southwest. The different
species of cactus interested us while
crossing this plain. We observed
about twenty different varieties. Some
growing to height of several feet
while others push their puff-ball
shaped heads merely through the bar
rem earth. Finally, we reach the
mountains and see men busily en-
gagged in prospecting for the precious
gold. Many of the mines are aban-
doned. A few are being worked but
most of the effort, at present, seems to
be put forth to discover the main lead
which miners claim runs through this
region. | would like to describe our
typical gold miner but space forbids
it. Just as we struck the first peaks,
which rise out of the plain or table
lands we observed number of small
piles of rock. In many instances a
little cross was erected on the top of
the rock piles. Later, we learned
that the Indians met the Spanish in
vaders here and gave them battle just
as they emerged from the great can
on. The Spanish leader was slain and
the rock piles marked the final resting
places of his dead followers. The
leader was carried to the top of high
peak and buried where large cross
marks his grave. We now enter the
canon and sometimes the road is very
narrow and dangerous. Down the
great canon the scenery is grand be-
You'd the power of man to describe.
Lofty walls Of rock reach up and up
toward the ribbon of blue overhead.
Springs Of pure cold water gush forth
and ripple away only to sink into the
sand and be sucked up by the parched
earth after flowing a few rods. A lit
tie further on the canon becomes wild
or and we catch glimpse of the lofty
Critic Mountains ahead and to our
right, but bend in the canon soon
shuts out our view. Another bend
and we leave the canon while the
great Galesteo Pass spreads out before
us. We see the iron horse coming
down the pass in the distance making
the mountains resound with the echo
Of his iron hoofs. The long train of
cars which he draws wind after him
like serpent, bearing their precious
burdens Of passengers, express and
mail onward toward their eastern des-
tination and true civilization. Soon
The train passed us and was lost to
view around the bend. We felt tears
yelling up in our eyes as we realized
hat we must continue to be exiles in