The L'Anse sentinel., 1908-02-08
PENINSULA news.
Itens Of Interest Taken From Our
EXCHANGES and Condensed.


Adventure and the force Al the min
has been greatly reduced A few
drills are being used in development
and exploratory work and the dia-
mond drills are still working away.
Chief George Wasquam, aged sew
enty, died at his home near Brim.
ley, Chippewa county, during the
fore part of the week. Wasquam
was one OF the noted Indians of
northern Michigan, meyer having
been outside the upper peninsula
He was noted as a woodsman and
guide
There are $40 descriptions in the
list of lands advertised in the Onto
nagon Herald this week for unpaid
taxes of 1905 and previous years.
This is an unusually small number
compared with some former years
which ran up into thousands of des-
criptions and is indicative Of The in
crease in value OF not only he tim
ber lands but of those which have
been cut over.
A valuable acquisition has been
made 70 the poultry department OF
the HAmlock Hill farm. located
near On,onagon. Mich 1t is the
prize buff plymouth rock hen at the
twelfth annual exhibition OF the
National Fanciers and Breeders rs
sociation, which IS now in progress,
at Chicago. The prize bronze tnr
key gobbler, of H-mlock Hill farm,
which has been the envy Of all upper
Michigan fanciers, was killed las,
Saturday by logging train "
was a fine and exceptionally large
bird and had been awarded firs'
prize wherever exhibited.
Arthur Kamrath. Otto Manthey
John Vandewiel. and John Kelly.
the three first named being employed
by the National Grocery Co.. of Es
canada, left Saturday afternoon for
Gladstone, going in their ice boat at
40 mile an hour clip when they
glided into q fourteen feet wide
crack covered with but a thin coat
ing OF ice. Manthey and Kelly were
thrown in the water. Kamrath
and Vandewiele, by the rear of the
boat sinking in the water, found
themselves with the water about
their necks and with the assistance
of Manthey they were able to reach
solid ice and Kelly was then pulled
out. The ice boat was demolished
and the members OF the party were
forced to run from the spot where
the accident occurred to Gladstone,
before they could remove soaked
clothing.
Startling figures appear in an ac-
cident bulletin just issued by the in
terstate commerce commission, COW
ering the months of July, August
and September, 1907. The report
shows that the number of casualties
on railroads during that quarterly
period was 23.063, including / 1,339
killed and 2l724 injured. This is
an increase of l57 in the number of
killed and 3 O56 in the number of in
jured, as compared with the cores
ponding period OF 1906. Collisions
and derailments in the quarter
numbered 4,o79 including 2,245 col
lisions and 1904 derailments, OF
which 320 collisions and 222 derail-
neuts affected passenger trains.
The damage to cars. engines and
roadway by these accidents amount
ed to %. .605, ,696. This shows an in
crease in the number Of collisions
and derailments OF 6N over the COR
responding period of 1906.
A curious old musical instrument
is one OF the objects of interest in
the Office Of Chief Engineer Bachel-
der Of the Copper Range. It is Q
miniature guitar with only four
strings and is apparently very old
and OF hand workmanship. It was
found among the effects Of the late
Chief Engineer Sanders, who may
have found IL iu Mexico. The old
instrument has an inscription in PEN
Gil inside but is undecipherable. A
peculiar feature 10 that the frets ex-
tend only hallway across the finger
board and are placed alternately 30
that only two strings may be fretted
at the same time in the same posi-
tion. The guitar should be an In
teresting study to musicians ~ Il is
unlike sny other instrument ever
seen in the copper country.
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