The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-30
Neis Eide of TOfte is IN town.

Chris Murphy leaves today on a
business trip to the Twin Cities.
+ The Owl Club will give dance on
Fourth of July evening at Bramer's
hall.
| P. e. Aim was in Duluth few days
this week, returning home Wednesday
night.
S. w. Barton and E. ". Wakelin left
last night for Isle Roayle to remain a
month.
Rev. w. H. Gable RETURNED Wednesday
night from attendance at the synod in
Minneapolis.
Nick Probeck and Geo. Wartner. of
Gunhint were in attendance at the
term of district court this week.
T Bob Stitt, the we'll known Duluth
lumberman attended di Strict court this
week as witness in the case af Bates r
Mcdonald vs. d. A. Cameron.
Train your garden family-potatoes,
carrots, cucumbers, rutabagas, etc, so
that when the time arrives they will cot
be timid about being exhibited at the
state fair this fall. Remember, Cook
county is going to have show there
this fall. Keep this in mind. Every
citizen can help to make 1t cred1ta15le.
Ye editors table is supplied today
with a liberal sample of very fire lettuce
from the garden of Frank Bean. Mr..
Bean also sends us samples of pea plants
that stand over two feet high, bearing
| peas ready for table use. The samples,
while attesting Mr.. Beams success AS a
gardener, also show that this region is
adapted to early garden truck Of excl
lent variety.
NJ &. Riley, of the firm of Riley 4
Laughren, WHO are dong the rafting for
the John Schroeder Lumber Co., is in
town today, hiring men to take down to
Red Rock. Mr.. Riley reports the
weather very unfavorable for rafting
Riley & Laughren have a, contract to
raft and tow 5000 cords of puIpwood to
to Washburn, Wis, for the Dells Paper
Co., of Eu Claire, in additionto 100000
feet of logs owned by the John Schroe-
der Lumber Co.
Andrew Westerlund, Vernald Sund-
gust and Jacob Soderlund returned to
their homes in Eveleth Monday evening.
all three having filed on homesteads in
Rowland township. They were located
through the Aug. J. johnson Land
Agency, whose aim above other con-
siderations IS to bring bona fde settlers
to the county. This, the first returns Of
the very limited advertising and mis-
sionary work done by the agency, is en-
couraging, showing the county offers
winning Inducements to the non-specu-
latiye home-seeklng class. These men
came here looking for lands to build
homes upon. They were not interested
IN timber and were not specializing on
the possibility of winning an iron mine.
fThey wanted agricultural lands to make
a living from. With them the quality of
the soil was the principal consideration.
Upon the whole tract taken by the three,
Mr.. johnson says, there is not enough
timber to build AZ chicken coop
with. They returned home we'll pleased,
planning on coming back this fall to
establish homes ON the land.
John PETERSON, of Good Harbor Hill,
who was in town Tuesday,, told of a
hair-raising experience he had on his
last visit to the village. On his way
home, just as he reached his own land,
and about half mile from his .shanty
his dog encountered bunch OF four
wildcats, or lynx, that Mr.. Peterson
thinks were sleeping in an open place
close to the trail. The beasts separated,
two of them taking off through the
woods with the dog 10 pursuit. The
other two came out from their lair and
in slow measured leaps, approached Mr..
PETERSON as If to attack him, all the time
splitting their anger at HIM. He slowly
backed away, at the same time waving
his hat at them and shouting: They
came up so close that he could almost
kick them, and then to his immense
relief they turned and skulked off in to
the woods. Pete Wannebo, a neighbor
to whom he related his experience, asked
PETERSON what kind Of tails they had.
"Darn It" PETERSON said, "|do you sup.
pose saw their tails? T was too busy
: watching the other end."' - '<r,'>
Child Attacked by:a Bear,
Dickie, the young son.of MI. and Mrs
Peter Berg, had an almost miraculous
9 escape from death last Tuesday, in ar