The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-11-12
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Mr.. and Mrs. John Matheson went
5 to Duluth yesterday. ... 4 ISL. 3.
Col. Colvill returned home from Du-
luth Sunday evening. n. ~ F. !
Treasurer Johnson left on the Dixon
yesterday morning from Duluth. 4
Louis Engelson brought the election
returns in from Lutsen Wednesday.
O. E.. Erickson returned Thursday
morning from an extended sojourn ir
Minneapolis. =.
Mrs. Sawyer returned to West Super
j -ior yesterday after spending a week on
her homestead. t@->s
/. Mr.. and Mrs. g. A. Nelson and Mrs.
Peter Nelson, of Lutsen visited in town
I between boats Thursday.
Mrs. 0. Gunderson returned to her
home in Hovland Thursday after a
weeks visit with friends in town.
Mrs. Chris Murphy and children re-
turned home from Duluth Thursday
accompanied by Miss. Celia Murphy.
Bernt jacobson came up from How
land with the election returns Wednes-
day and returned home on the Dixon
Thursday.
Andrew Tote and T. O. Engelson, of
Tote, aud J. L. Lundene and @. A.
.Hokenson, of Lutsen, were in town
attending tho Maccabee review Thursday
evening.
The following Hovlandites passed
through town on the Dixon Tuesday
evening on their way to Duluth: A. S.
Carlson, John E}iason, John Gustafson,
G. Elnon, Hjalmer Eliasen, John Dono-
van, Louis Ellingson, John Meyers, John
Bjerklund, P. M. Graf, R. P. Paine, F.
Morgan, 3. S. Baker and T. Woodwork.
The greatest undertaking in railway
building known in history is the Trans
Siberian railway, now under construc-
tion. William j. Reid, young American
who has just returned from two years.
0alp uALOuSu OlOoiAfls H1lUoS oil ouooi-
tanning article in "The National Maya
zine" for November, describing the work
being done. This railway is an import
ant factor in the settlement of the
Eastern question, and is of particular
interest to the United States at this
time.
Another great political battle ended
on Tuesday last. We have as yet been
unable to learn the result outside of
Cook county, but in the county the re
suit was a victory for the Peoples ticket,
every candidate on the ticket being
elected except H. J Braun, candidate for
register Of deods, who was defeated by
O. Ell. Carhart, the present incumbent, by
four votes. The battle in Cook county,
although one o.of. the most aggressive
campaigns in the history of the county,
was avery clean and legitimate contest,
neither party resorting to mud-sl1ng1ng
or abuse so far as we have been able to
learn. The contest was made solely on
the merits of the respective candidates
and we believe that the result will prove
satisfactory to the people Of the county.
In another column will be found a re-
port of the result in the several precincts
Of the county.
Phillip Shabb and Jos. Thomas came
up from Grand Portage today to secure
40 h. ~ To- .ol~
q. s. customs officer at Grand Portage,
for using abusive language and threat
ening to hit Shabb with an axe, which he
held in his hand. According to their
statement they, in company with another
Indian, went over to Gagnon's island
yesterday morning to purchase some
goods. Immediately upon arriving
there Shabb was set upon by Reinhart
who abused him for not calling on him
, {Reinhart) to assist him (Shabb) in mark.
ing his ballot, as Reinhart claimed Shabb
had promised to do. Shabb denied that
he had made such promise and took
exception to the abuse whereupon, they
claim, Reinhart drew an axe an threat
ened to chop Shabb's head off if he came
near him. In as much as Reinhart will
leaYe Grand Portage by the next boat
Shabb was advised by his friends here to
drop the matter, and he concluded to do
SO. AS to Reinhart's motives for desir-
ing to mark the ballots for those Indians
we leave our readers to draw their own
conclusions. We know Of no reason
why any honest man should be SO desir-
GUS of the job. The writer was at Grand
Portage on election day and was COM
PEELED to protest against Reinhart's
actually asking the Indians to allow him
to mark their ballots while acting as
judge Of election.
Waving, Wow1ing, Caterwauling.
The word ''wawling,' . and it's variants
s.wewling" and sswowling," are fairly
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