The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1902-02-15
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1902


The County Board will meet Monday
for the transaction of business.
John A. Bardon has been spending
the week on his fan m at Gordon.
Miss Phipps of Minneapolis is a
guest of Miss Lucille Shields.
William Gouge IS seriously i'll with
bronchitis His heart is also affected.
L. S. Marshall, Chas. Lewiston, of
Madison has been in the city this week.
The fire men received pay III cash
this week for the first time in six
months.
The Lenton season began this week
with Ash Wednesday. 1t will be gen
orally observed in this city.
The warm weather of the past few
days has made the sleighing rather
thin in most parts of the city.
There is a demand for more men for
the woods and good wages prevailing.
A large force of men are working on
the large addition being built to the
IRON ore docks.
Yesterday was st. Valentines day
aud the postal clerks and carriers
were busy delivering the messages
from cupid.
There is a shortage of freight cars
in this city and many orders tor the
eastern market are not accepted.
The grocerymen of the city Withhold
their Annual banquet at the West
Superior hotel on Thursday evening
Feb. p.
Leo. Mather, of the East End, left
Tuesday for Brainerd, where ne has
accepted position with the Northern
Pacific as stenographer.
Herbert j. Laffitte will return to
Biwabik this spring to resume his
duties as manager of the telegraph
office and weighmaster for the Duluth,
Miss abe & Northern Ry.
There is a shortage of soft coal and
a large amount will be shipped in by
rail. The price has advanced to $500
and IS 80 per ton. There is plenty of
the hard variety to meet the demand.
The police have arrested two
colored men who are charged with
the murder of Charlie YIN, the laun-
dry man III Dee. last.
Old Gitche Ounce has frozen over
for a distance of several miles out and
the ice men are harvesting fine
quality of ice, about II inches thick
and as clear as a crystal.
NJ +, Payton, of the Superior Bank,
has gone east on a two weeks "Trip.
His brother, Hamilton Payton, is
assisting i'll the bank during his alb
sence.
The indications now are that there
will be more boni fide settlers locating
in the fertile lands of Douglas county
this spring than ever before, thouS-
ands of acres have changed hands re-
Gently and still there is continual
call for farm lands.
There will be no trials of jury cases
in the Superior Court until a week
from Monday. The jury was excused
until that time in order that the at
torneys may have time to attend the
sitting of the Supreme Court in Madi-
son.
The East End fire department spent
Sunday fighting fire on the Youngh-
iogneny x Lehigh coal docks and
after hard effort succeeded in sub
dueing the fire which has been burn
ing for several months, and has de
stroyed thousands of tons of coal, the
do elk escaped injury by being made of
concrete
David Daily, son of John Daily of
the East End, was married last Tuesday
to Miss Jennie LaSalle, a popular
young lady of the West End. The
couple came to the East End for visit
with friends and relatives, and were
given a pleasant reception at the home
If Mr. and Mrs. Frank kidder last
Wednesday evening. Mr. Daily Is now
an expert telegrapher i'll the employ
at the Eastern Minnesota Ry., and
has bright prospects for the future.
1t is said that there are fifteen
deputy game wardens now travelling
through the northern part of the state
looking for violaters of the game laws
They pretend to be peddlers, lane
lockers or followers of any other kind
OF business than that which they are
bent. Every lumber camp is being
visited and pot hunters who have
heretofore made business of furnish
ing logging camps with venison al
winter have been forced out of their
illicit business. There are now forty
two deputy game wardens in the state
who receive SIS a month and eX'
penses.- bayfield, Press.