The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-08
LOCAL ITEMS.

The chess club held u meeting at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
Hathaway Tuesday evening.
As yet there has been no prepara-
tion on the part of any fraternal or.
ganization for an Easter ball to be
given in L'Anse. What's the mat
ter with the Odd Fellows2
Herman Falk, treasurer OF Baraga
township, made his settlement with
County Treasurer Menge yesterday
of delinquent taxes. About $4,000
was returned delinquent from that
tow nship.
The per cent of sugar contained
10 beets heretofore grown by few
enterprising farmers in Baraga
county has averaged 14,10. The
samples were analysed by the Michi-.
gan experimental station at Chat
ham, Alger county.
A license to wed was issued at
Houghton Saturday last to Al
phonse Verville, of Baltic mine, and
Miss Eta Grisdale, of Adams town
ship. Both young people are former
residents Of Pequaming.
I. A. Moore, OF Dollar Bay, was
in town this week. He drove out to
the scene OF operations Of the Dol
lar Bay Land & Improvement Co.,
which concern has camps in the
Huron river district.
A number OF L'Anse young people
(and old people as welD have signi.
fed their intention of taking in the
exhibition to be given by Sousa s
famous band at the Calumet theater
Saturday evening, March 18th.
w. j. Steele, formerly connected
with the Hathaway Graphite COM
pany in this village, but who has
been in the employ of the Mass
Mining company at Keweenaw Bay
since last fall, has resigned his posi-.
tion with that company. Mr..
Steele left for Detroit Wednes-
day. He will engage in the
carriage making business in Michi-
gan S metropolis on his own ac-
count.
Farmers who refused to sell their
potatoes last fall at from seventy
to eighty cents cents a bushel are
sorry now that they did not let
them go, as the price of the best po-
tatoes to be had has dropped within
the past week to sixty-five cents per
bushel. 1t is said that there will be
no such market for potatoes as
there was 10 the fall.
The state will distribute during
the coming season about 5000, 900
trout fry to be planted in different
streams. There will also be black
bass, pike and lake trout distributed
during the year. The streams Of
Baraga county are entitled to a
share. If some of the fishermen in
terested will make application to
the fish commission they will be
supplied.
In tax case decided by the
Michigan supreme court Tuesday
it was held that the legislature can
not impose a duty upon citizen,
give him an insufficient time in
which to perform it, and then
authorize someone else to perform
the duty for him, and impose tax
upon him-for the cost. "The duty
to construct sidewalk" says the
court, ''is purely statutory, and
and when such a duty is imposed
upon citizen he is entitled to a
reasonable time in which to per-
! form it.
James McKercher, of Spur,
agent of corrections and charities
for Baraga county, was in L'Anse
Wednesday on business connected
with the arrest of two juvenile
offenders, who are held on a
statutory charge, upon complaint
of a sixteen-year old Indian girl.
The crime is alleged to have been
committed several months ago on
the highway between Baraga and
Assinins. The boys names are
George Bennett and James st
Clair, one of them being thirteer
years Of age and the other sixteen
They are Indian boys and hail from
the Baraga side of the bay. Tht
examination of defendants was ad
journed- until Wednesday next
Meanwhile the youngsters are con
fined in juvenile cells at the count,