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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
PEQUANIING POINTERS.
Special Correspondence


d. p. Baldwin made trip here
Tuesday.
The tug Hebard made q trip to
Marquette Thursday.
Rev. and Mrs. j. NJ. Shank called
on friends in town Thursday.
Theron Davis was confined to b S
home by sickness this week.
Messrs. Fred Rogers and John
Lofquist enjoyed days hunting
Friday.
Mrs. n. NJ. DeHaas, of Marquette,
is visiting with Pequaming friends
this week.
NJ. f. Gibbs, representing Armour
& Co., drove out here on business
Thursday.
Mrs. Joseph Hawkins is visiting
relatives and friends in Marquette
this week.
Sam Shearer and Charles Hartvig
were over from Skanee WEDNESDAY y
and Thursday.
A very sociable party was given
in the Town Hall Wednesday even.
ing, by few of the young men.
Mrs. John Macarthur returned
from Houghton Thursday, wher,
she had been visiting for week.
Mrs. Danjurand and Miss Dan
jurand, of Lake Linden, were the
guests of Mrs. Fred Proctor this
week.
Mrs. w. ID. Manness was number
ed among the sick Thursday, con
sequently there was no school in tn,
primary department.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
EXCURSION TO DULUTH.
South Shore Offers Low Rate
for Thursday and Friday
of Next Week.

The South Shore railway com
pany offers patrons in this section
an alluring opportunity to go to
Duluth on Thursday and Friday
next, returning any time before the
25th.
Only Sc will be charged for round
trip tickets.
1t is expected that the excursion
will be well patronized, as the low
rate is offered in response to re-
quests from many who desire to visit
the towns at the head of the lake
before winter sets in. Tickets will
be good going on all trains both
ways. With the tickets good for
six days many will doubtless remain
until the last day. Full particulars
can be obtained by applying to the
station agents.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
INSPIRATION INSTITUTE
For Baraga County VIII BE, Held
at Baraga Oct. I 1Sth-2Oth.

The state teachers institute for
Baraga county will be held at
Baraga October 18th to Goth, 1900.
Conductor-Prof. Geo. w. Loomis,
director of the training school in
the Central State Normal, Mt.
Pleasant.
Instructor-Prof. G. E. Pray,
head of the department of history
and civics of the Milwaukee normal
school.
Local committee-Commissioner
Nj. j. McKanna, Baraga.
Hon. Jason E. Hammond, super
intendent OF public instruction; DR..
Albert Leonard, president of the
Michigan normal school system;
Prof. w. H. Cheever, of Milwaukee,
and Prin. d. B. Waldo, of the
Northern Normal school, Marquette,
will also be present during a part of
the institute.
We are particularly fortunate in
being able to secure the services of
some of the leading educators OF
Michigan and Wisconsin for this
occasion, and it is hoped that every
teacher in the county will be on
hand Thursday evening and remain
till Saturday afternoon at 4 clock.
The enthusiasm and suggestions
will make the years teaching more
pleasant and profitable. School
officers should make it point to
attend as much as possible. Pat
roas are especially invited.
The day sessions of the institute
will be held in the Baraga High
school and the evening sessions in
the Town Hall.
For those living outside of Baraga
ample Accommodations will be pro-
vided at reasonable rates.
NJ. j. MCKANNA,
County School Commissioner.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
Michigan Legislature Passes the
Resolution for Railroad
Taxation.
ONLY FIVE NEGATIVE VOTES
Senate Slightly Amends the
Measure, and House
COncurs.

The joint resolution authorizing
the submission to the people at the
election in November, of Il constitu-
tional amendment permitting the
taxation of railroads and other cor
porations on the cash value of their
property, passed the house of rep
rcsentatives at Lansing Thursday.
The vote stood eighty-three ayes to
three nays, the negative votes being
cast by Messrs Rulison, Kerr and
Handy.
In the senate, the resolution
authorizing submission of the
amendment to the people was
amended and then also passed
Thursday. The vote was twenty
nine ayes to two nays, Messrs.
Maitland and Charles Smith being
in the negative.
The house concurred in the senate
amendments, which are but minor
changes.
Adjournment is expected today
Saturday.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
Notice..
Saturday,

Notice is hereby given, that seal
ed proposals will be received by the
county clerk, at his Office in L'Anse,
Mich, until October 26, 1900, at
II O clock noon, for furnishing the
material and performing the work
in driving about 700 piles at the
head of L'Anse Bay. Bids will be
received separately for furnishing
about $500 feet of timber and all
material required; also separately
for driving the piles and perform
ing the work, and also for furnish
ing all the material and performing
all the work. Plans and speci-
fications can be seen at the county
clerk S office. The successful bidder
will be required to furnish good
and sufficient bond The board OF
supervisors reserve the right to re-
iect any and all bids.
BY order of the Board of Super
visors. G. o. BEEHLER, Clerk.
Dated L 'Anse, Mich. Oct. II, 1900.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
Farmers Advised to Make Their
Homes in This Section
Of Michigan.
MARKETS ARE EXCELLENT.
Prof. &. ID. Smith, of Michigan
Agricultural College Makes an
Interesting Statement.

Prof. Clinton d. Smith, director
of the agricultural experiment sta
tion, has returned to Lansing from
a trip through the upper peninsula.
In speaking of the chances for farm
ers to settle here he said to repre-
sentative of the Detroit Journal:
Il want to call the attention of all
Michigan citizens who contemplate
seeking new farm this year to the
following facts: While the upper
peninsula does contain a good deal
OF land that is practically worthless
for farming purposes, it also has
broad acres of most excellent soil.
Chippewa county can show loans
and heavier soils that cannot be
surpassed in the best counties of the
lower peninsula. Delta county can
show some fine farms, especially on
the peninsula east of the Big Bay de
Noque, about Gladstone, Rapid Riv-
er and as far north as Lathrop.
Again west of Escanaba, about Bark
River, Menominee county, it is
practically one solid block of good
farming land. Then there is Choco-
lay township, Marquette county,
and that great wooded region in
Alger county, from Munising and
Au Train south and west to the
county lines.
After repeated visits to these re-
gions l am thoroughly convinced
that if the people of southern Mich-
gon have not already farms in this
peninsula and want to get farms at
u low price per acre in regions where
the markets are good, they can do
no better than select some place in
the upper penins ula for their future
homes
Prices for all kinds Of farm pro-
duce rule high, and the demand is
very active. Hay and all kinds of
grain, garden vegetables, and all
supplies needed'in lumber camps are
salable at prices that would astonish
the residents of the lower peninsula.
''The rapidity with which vegeta
tion grows in the northern country
is astonishing to the residents of a
region farther south. At the state
fair there was shown all sorts of
farm products which came to ma
turity this season on piece of
ground that was in solid timber
up to the first Of May. In quality,
the vegetables were far superior to
those grown farther south, and the
yield per acre is larger.
Lands sell at prices varying from
So to $S per acre, and often at these
prices there is timber enough grow
| ing on the land to pay for it. "
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
BIG INCREASE OF TRAFFIC
20,OOO,OOO Tons of Freight
Moved on Lake Superior
i'm Five Months.

The traffic of Lake Superior to
Oct. 1st, has been computed and
shows movement Of freight for the
five months of.almost 20, 900, 900 tons.
This is more than for any complete
year prior to 1899. The September
movement of freight was Bal .453
tons, and for the season to date,
19,S7S, ,475 tons. This increase of
traffic for the year has been ac-
complshed with share Of the large
freight ships of the lakes tied up at
docks at all leading ports.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
LOCAL ITEMS.

Peter Peterson, of Skanee, was in
town Monday.
Patrick f. Tracy was in from
Covington Friday evening.
"How to Get Rid of the Old Man
will be Rev. j. M. Shank's subject
at the NJ. E. church tomorrow even
ing.
John Ellis, OF Covington, who
is mentally deranged, was brought
to the county Jail Friday evening,
and provisions will doubtless be
made for sending him to the asylum.
He has resided at Covin2ton for the
past five years, and has wife and
three small children. HIS case is q
sad one.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
Supervisors Disposed of Big
Grist Of Business
This Week.
TO PURCHASE A POOR FARM
TreasQrer's Report Shows a
Balance of q A. 900 on Hand,
and No Indebtedness.

The annual meeting of the board
of supervisors was held at the
Court House, in this village, this
week, and large amount of busi
ness was disposed Of. The board
adjourned Thursday afternoon, and
owing to lack of time in which to
put the official proceedings in type,
they will not appear until next
weeks issue of The SENTINEL.
However, brief summary of the
more important transactions are
herewith given.
j. Q. McKernan was re-appointed
superintendent of the poor for dis
trict No. !, for the term of three
years.
Miss Helen O'Connor was re-
appointed county school examiner
for the ensuing two years.
Joseph Richards, of Spur town
ship, was appointed mine inspector
for the county, at salary of $50
per year.
A resolution was passed deeming
it advisable to establish poor
farm, and empowering the board OF
superintendent of the poor to
purchase a tract of land of not less
than 100 nor more than 320 acres.
at an expenditure of not to exceed
$500.
j. Q. McKernan, Charles Fl.
Anderson and Richard Feore, were
appointed to constitute a board of
county canvassers for the ensuing
two years.
DR.. w. r. Stringham was award
ed the contract for another year for
medical attendance and furnishing
medicine in all contagious diseases
excepting small pox) in cases
where the county is liable.
| The treasurer books were
audited and found correct. His re-
port showed a balance in the
treasury of $4,000, and no out
standing debts.
The salaries of the county officials
were placed at the same figures as
for the past two years.
The report of the superintendent
of the poor was read and accepted.
The total amount paid out during
the year amounted to So, 1921, and
the board recommended that the
sum of So, 500 be appropriated for
poor purposes for the ensuing year.
A resolution was passed by the
board approving of the excellent
and faithful work performed by
Patrick Culliney as county game
and fish warden. and requesting his
reappointment by the state warden
at the expiration of the present
year.
The valuations in the county
show an increase by being u little
more than double what they were
last year, but the per cent of tax
will be materially decreased.
The SENTINEL was unanimously
awarded the contract for the county
printing for another year, for which
/ the board has our thanks.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
Col. Bliss Coming.

Col A. T. Bliss Republican can
didate for governor, will campaign
in the upper peninsula during the
week beginning Oct. 22d. He will be
accompanied by Congressman Shell
den and Victor NJ. Gore. The trip
includes seven of the upper peninsula
towns, where meetings will be held.
Col. Bliss will arrive at Houghton
at IL o'clock Wednesday morning,
Oct. Oath, and will also visit Calu-
met, leaving that city Thursday
morning for Ironwood.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
Primary School Land.

On another page of THE SENTINEL
will be found the notice of sale of
primary school land in Baraga
county, which will take place at
Lansing on Nov. 9Th, by the com
missioner of the state land office,
VIM. A. French. According to the
recent act of the legislature, this
land will be sold at public auction
and no doubt there will be some bar
gains secured.
The notice of sale will be published
for five weeks. This is the second
publication.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
New Registration.

This being the year of presi-
Dental election complete re-
registration will be required of all
voters. Bear in mind that unless
you place your name anew upon the
registration book in the precinct in
which you reside you cannot vote at
the November election. The time
for registering will be announced in
due season.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
LOCAL ITEMS.

Attorney M. ]. Sherwood, OF Mar
quette, spent few hours in town
Friday.
Miss B. McGrath returned Sun
day from ten days visit with
Houghton friends.
Charles and Horace Trethewey,
of Lake Linden, are visiting Mr..
and Mrs, G. Johnston.
Miss Aggie Shields went to Lake
Linden this morning to visit her
sister, Mrs. j. A. Smith.
p. Brennan has purchased an
acetylene gas generator which will
be placed in his block next week.
Mrs. H. 7. Ingersoll and daugh-
ter returned to Laurium Monday,
after few days visit with friends
here.
Mrs. Charles Trim and Mrs. VIM.
Young, of Houghton, are visiting
at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. p
G. Murphy
Mrs. H. G. Guck and little daugh-
ter, of Calumet, are visiting at the
home of Mrs. Guck's mother, Mrs.
g. +. Beehler.
The Christian Endeavor society
met last evening. During the
winter meetings will be held each
Friday evening. A cordial invita-
tion is extended to all.
II. Selden has been engaged to
take charge of the section at the
Summit for the d., S. S. & A. road.
He expects to remove his family to
the Summit in few days.
1t is announced that wedding
will take place in this village next
week, the contracting parties
being Charles Ramb and Miss
Katie Flynn, both residents of
L'Anse.
Supervisors Charles II. Anderson,
of Arvon; Peter Girard, Baraga;
Arthur Boucher, Covington, and
Joseph Ryan, of Spur, were in
town this week in attendance at the
annual meeting of the county
board.
Miss Esphilirina Belanger left
Sunday afternoon for DesMoines,
Ia, where she will make her home
in the future. She was accom-
panied by her brother, Telesphore,
who has secured position with his
brother in that city.
c. A. Colstrom, formerly of
Skanee, now of Minneapolis, left for
home Thursday morning, after
visiting Capt. W. Been at Skanee
for few days. Mr.. Colstrom will
be remembered as school teacher
at that place four or five years ago.
Rev. +. o. Jones, formerly pastor
of the NJ. E. church in this village,
also at Pequaming and the Mission,
is now located at Saline, nine miles
south of Ann Arbor. Mr.. Jones
states that he is well pleased with
his new charge. The many friends
of Rev. and Mrs. Jones in this
county will be glad to learn Of the
above.
ID. ]. Norton, the Even lumber
man, has started q camp in Carp
Lake township, Ontonagon county
John Golden, for years an employe
of the Nesters, of Baraga, is in
charge. A crew of about thirty
five men will be employed. The
cut will be $500, 900 feet of the
finest pine standing in Michigan.
1t will be banked on Union Bay and
RATED to Hebard & Sons mill al
Pequaming next spring.
Two young men of Pequamine
were arrested Tuesday on complaint
of William Owen, of the M. E.
Mission, for using indecent and
insulting language in the presence
of Mr.. Owens family Sunday
evening. The young men were
arraigned in justice court and
pleaded guilty. They we're assessed
fine and costs, amounting to slI
each, with an alternative OF sixty
days Imprisonment in the county
Jail. They paid, but will un'
doubtedly be more careful about
their language in the future.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13

We show a very fine line in dress
goods, prices ranging from l2g cents
to 81 25 per yard
THE VIM KITZ Co.. Baraga.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13

We have the largest and finest
line OF mems and boys winter caps
ever shown 10 Baraga county.
JACOBSON & LEvITAN, L'Anse.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13

Bargains in underwear at The
VIM. Kitz Co., Baraga.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13

Bargains in suits and overcoats S
and boys REFERS, at The VIM. Kitz
Co., Baraga.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13

Call and look over our line Of
ladies shirt waists and children S
skirts. jacobson d Levitan, L 'Anse.
Evening journal., 1900-04-04
Family Poker.

Poker has become one of the stand
ard family games Of New York. and
both sexes are playing it. if anything.
the women with more avidity than the
men. In family parties, it is true, the
game is sometimes played just for
fun" but generally for small stakes.
Perhaps the most satisfactory meth
cd is that devised by several young
married couples living on the west side
who get together once or twice a week
TO play poker. They play dollar lin
it" game. but this is not so fierce as it
sounds. for all the chips are bought for
ten cents on the dollar. They maintain
that it sounds much better to raise
the opener Of a pot "a dollar" than 1t
would to raise him ten cents" and
that by magnifying the value OF their
chips they play much better game Of
poker
But this is only one feature Of this
remarkable game. They wanted tOkeep
il on the friendly" basis, and felt that
If the Smiths went home from the
Browns fiat two or three nights in
succession with all the Browns mon
ey. friendly relations might become
strained, as they say in diplomatic cir.
cles.
This scheme was devised:-The club
has a banker. The losers always pay
their losses, but the winners never col
lect their winnings. The winnings are
retained by the banker, and after sixol
eight evenings of poker he is generally
able to announce that he has $50 il
the treasury. Then the club takes q
vote on what to do with it.
It It is the winter. it is generally
theatre party, with supperafterward
all the expenses being paid from the
bankers fund. In summer it is a trip t'
some nearby summer resort All the
participants in the game declare it hal
furnished them with many delightful
evening and that the "money is nev
/ pr missed. Exchange.
Evening journal., 1900-04-04
RECENT INVENTIONS.

For holding the foot I'm place a new
bicycle pedal attachment has a pair OF
fiat plates bolted together to be ad-
justed TO ut the foot, with n toe-plate
at the end, which engages the shoe to
hold the foot I'm place to bring the
largest amount Of pressure on the ped
al.
To prevent the stealing Of coal and
protect It from the weather an Illinois
man has patented q coal car with an
adjustable cover. which is folded up
in a pocket on the side OF the car
when not in use and can. be drawn
over the car and locked to cover the
coal.
To provide for the storage Of decoy
ducks I'm a small space a New Hamp-
shire man has designed a sectional
bird, which IS hinged at the bottom
and provided with hooks al the top 20
lock IL in position, the decoy being hol-
low to allow several 70 be pocketcd to-
gether.
An improved floor surfacing mac
has an electric motor eeared 10 a ver-
tical shaft to revolve II rapidly. with
a nat wheel mounted on the lower end
of the shaft 10 carry series Of cut
| ting blades. which are brought In con-
tact with the floor by an adjusting
lever
To make the fastening OF large but
tons easy loop has been patented.
having one end secured TO a
llic holder on the garment, the other
end of the cord being provided with
a needle 10 aid i'm forcing it into the
holder after IL has passed around
the button.
For supporting bicycles az the curb
Ian improved stand has q sing post
lto be- Inserted in the pavement with a
Track piyoted TO one side Of the posi-
Ito swing out into a horizontal position
when In use folding down against the
lrost when not wanted.
Ina a new amusement device for
marks a canal of tortpous shape is dug
lin the ground. with means for raising
1.-The water from the lower end to the
upper. o number OF boats being float
led in the rapidly moving current of
water to traverse the length of the
canal.
Evening journal., 1900-04-04
VARIETIES.

In Berlin the pawnshop is a royal
and philanthropic institution. Any
profit that is made is spent on charity.
Toxic. Japan. has twenty-five Gre
matory furnaces. It is estimated that
43 per cent. Of those who die in Toxic
are cremated.
The North Carolina Supreme Court
has sustained n decision, rendered in
Burke county, imposing a fine OF 500
on the Southern Railway for giving a
free pass to a doorkeeper Of the Leg
islature in 1897.
In Austria the custom Of boxing the
ears Of soldiers and recruits has been
so common and so violent that thou
sands of them have suffered such inn
pairment Of their hearing as partly to
unfit them for service.
a three mile liquor law forbids all
rum selling within that distance Of the
Iowa State Agricultural College. at
Ames. and at the next Legislature an
attempt will be made to afford the
same protection to the state Uhiversi-
ty. at Iowa City.
Along the streets Of Paris during the
holidays All manner OF ahsurdities sup
posed to be appropriate 10 the season
and topical in character were sold. One
Of the favorite toys consisted of two
figures. John Bull and a Boer, which
were made TO fight by pulling a string,
Evening journal., 1900-04-04
Never Thouoht Of Il.

one day, as Jock Samson was at
work i'm the harvest field, he was busy
on the top of his cart loading the
sheaves. and the farmer was below
pitching.
All at once Jock wondered why no
Bheaves were being delivered to him.
and hearing sounds of putting and
blowing. he looked over the side Of the
cart. and saw the old farmer vainly
irving to lift the wheel Off n sheaf Of
corn.
The perspiration was streaming
down his face. and hearing Jock laugh
ing above him, he looked up and
cried
what are you laughing at? Come
doom and gie's lift3
sLosh. man." says Jock, "can ye no
move fOrrit the horseW
"I.osh me-. cried the farmer, throw.
ing down his hat on the ground in as
tonishment at his own stupidity. IL
never had a thocht O that"-Pearson's s
Weekly.