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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21
Mrs. DeLaurie Dead

Mrs, Joseph DeLaurie died at her
home in Maple Grove yesterday morn
ing after lingering illness Of several
months. Her death was due TO tuber-
culosus.
While she mad been growing weaker
for some time it was not thought that
her end was so near. Mr.. DeLaurie
was at his work when summoned home
to the death bed Of his wife.
The deceased lady was formerly
Nellie LaChapelle daughter Of Mrs.
n. LaChapelle and an old resident OF
the city. She was yet a very young
woman being about 23 years OF age.
She was a kind. homeloving woman
and was we'll thought Of by her many
friends in the city.
The funeral will be held on honda,
at nine O'Clock a. M.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21
Steel Corporation Building.

Announcement was made last Satur-
day that the United States Steel cor
poration will spend S.. 500, 600 in addi-
tion to its rail making plants in and
about Pittsburg.
The corporation is getting ready for
the expansion that is sure 10 follow
year by year in the iron industry.
II WAS further announced that the
corporation has go per cent Of it's
equipment in operation. This an
nouncement came as surprise to some
who had figured that the iron business
had taken sudden boom, which is not
the case. The steel corporation has
not much more OF its equipment In
operation than during the middle of
the summer but the outlook is very
much encouraged and accumulated
stocks much reduced.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21
CRYSTAL Falls, Mich.
Nov. 10. 1905.

A regular meeting OF the CITY Ooun-
Gil was held on the allowed date
Meeting WAS called to order by Mayor
r. b. W ebb. Members present; J. 5.
Jacka, Thos Wills, VIM. Nesbitt,
Frank scadden and A. l. Robbins
Abesnt Thos. Penglase.
Minutes OF previous meeting were
read and approved.
Moved by A. l.. Robbins and second
ed by j. s. Jacka that the following
liquor Bonds OF John n. Welch and
John Williamson as principal and faul
schook and Casper Aberle as sureties'
and Nick Holma as principal and Mar
tin Rogan and Jacob Bauer Ji. as sur
etIes be accepted. Roll calf Ayes D.
S. Jaoka, Thos. Wills VIM. Nesbitt,
Frank Scadden and A. L. Robbins.
Nays; none. Motion carried.
Moved By j. S Jacka and seconded
by A. l.. Robbins that the Mayor and
City Clerk be authorized TO execute the
contract presented to the City by the
Board OF Poor Superintendents OF the
County OF Iron In regards 10 placing
Mrs. Mary SIR AZ the County Hospital.
Roll call;) Ayes, }. 5. Jacka, Thos.
Wills, VIM. Nesbitt, Frank Scadden
and A. l.. Robbins Nays; none.
Motion carried.
Moved by j S. .lacka and seconded
by Thos. Wills that the bill Of the
Falkenau Electrical Construction Go. as
read amounting to $3.50. "a be allowed
tRoIl call ayes; j. 3 Jacka, Thos
Wills. VIM Nesbitt, Frank Scadden
and A. l.. Robbins. Nays, none
Motion carried.
On motion meeting adjourned until
Monday Nov. % 1908.
W. j. Gribble.
City Clerk.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21
Primary School Money.

Iron county receives from the state
a much less amount of primary school
money this year than last The amount
apporlioned per capital this year is
sl.7S whereas last year the sum of
$3.50 was paid out for each Ohild of
school age in the county.
The reason for this big difference is
that last year the railroads paid a lot
of back taxes into the primary fund
whereas this year only the only the re-
gular yearly tax was paid In.
The amount of money apportioned TO
Iron County is s5G6s 7s, there being 1851
children of school age in the county.
Crystal Falls gets the lion share of
this amount as can be seen from the
table OF amounts apportioned 10 each
school district. which are as follows
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21
SUBSCRIPTION sa.oo PER YEAR

include large expenditures is admitted.
The Oliver Mining company OF the
United States Steel corporation viii.
OF course, lead in the work That IL
expects TO very greatly increase ils
shipmrnts il evident. were IL also not
admitted, by the starting of work ON
two very large all-sieel carriers at "a
Lake Erie snipyard. while a third will
be started shortly The total OF ship
ments next year is very likely to reach
the cyrd-breaking figures Of $4,000,
600 tons.
II the iron trade continues 70 inn
prove TO the point that all idle capa.
city be- absorbed by next summer,
which event is confidently expected,
unprecedent activity must result in the
ore regions to get down record break
ing ore supplies. for the total Of
AZ. 600. 900 tons would not keep all the
furnaces going. and our averages Of
iron production and consumption In
dicate that we are on the verge OF
another great increase in our produce
tion. This hai been prepared for by
the great increase in blast furnace
capacity.
/ The United States Steel corporation
companies have added fifteen; the
Jones a. Laughlin Steel company Is
building four and number Of indi-
vidual stacks are being or hayv been
erected by the merchant ore companies
The Youngstown Sheet ~ Tube com
pany has added two and others have
also done the same. all being OF large
capacity, few if any requiring less
than / 900 tons OF ore daily TO keep
them going TO their regular capacity
No complicated figures are required
to show that they will require much
greater output Of ore. The indications
are that. although there will be very
great amount OF ore at Lake Erie ports
at the close of navigation, stocks will
be reduced 70 mere normal amount
at the opening OF navigation in 1909.
The Beseemer. 81 Lake Erie railroad
of the Steel corporation carried 4. 6G0, =
600 tons to Nov. |. as compared with
it's record tonnage of 5,s43, 1856 made
last year. The tonnage will this year
run ahead Of it's propective require
ments of the two new furnaces of the
Carrie furnace group of furnaces at the
| Homestead Steel works The Bessemer
road win hereafter serve twenty-four
blast furnaces. all at Homestead. Brad
dock and Duquesne. within ten miles
Of each other. The other ten furnaces
of the Carnegie Steel company IN the
Pittsburg district are served by other
railroads as we'll as eleven furnaces
here owned by other subsidiaries of the
Steel corporation, of which four are
at McKeesport, belonging TO the
National Tube company.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21
After the Fleet Footed.

The past week saw no abatement In
the pursuit of deer through the woods
about Crystal Falls. Parties who sur
rendered their quarters were followed
by others who claimed them and the
bang "bang" OF the rife was as
much in evidence this week as last.
Camp four. occupied last week by
Ropt WILSON, bunch. was -empted
Saturday by party consisting Of Lou
Henry, Earnest Munns. Phil Shaw,
Herman Holmes. Frank Ball Chas. II.
Watson, Ike Oswald and others with
Frank Koob as chef The load of prcvis-
ions they TOOK along would stock first
class hotel from garret 70 sample room.
Wilson and party came down Friday
night with licenses filed TO the bulg-
ing point.
The camp on McCutcheon creek
which was occupied by Arvid Bjork
and party last week is occupied by
Frank Johnson and party this week.
In the party are John Wulf. Tod Webb.
r. l.. Johnson.
Another party went 70 Parks Siding
John Klesges. Ed. pelorme and Hinie
Buscn are in the party.
Don't ask viii Reynolds anything
about the deer he get He hates 70
talk of &c.
A ooy and pair OF boots dion { hold
q comparison TO Clayton DeLong and
the deer he got last week.
Peter Scholl saw four.
Biork says that he's going TO learn
the art Of boIo throwing In the inter
val between this and next season and
then he may be able TO get some deer
Captain rrevarthan and party go
back that's all.
Rob Geske, Alfons spanner ans
} Elmer Edberg ars a. Seven Springs
N bob Wilson swears that he didn
see any deer until noon Of Nov 10Th
He went up the 9th and tne boys At
wondering if be was blind folded al
! that time.
Judge William Morrison administer
ea justice 10 the deer Ia the vicinity q
4 HIram FribbIsys camp last weeS
Mrs. Franz vanderpool landed a 20
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21
CUT HIS THROAT
WITH A RAZOR
cRAzeD MINER DID AWAY WITH HIM
SELF AT ToBlN
DONE IN SIGHT OF HIS SISTER
Who Tried to Take the Razor From Him
and Broke the Handle In the
Struggle.

Victor Macki. a Finnish miner at
the Tobin mine. committed suicide By
cutting his throat with a razor last
Monday. Macki had been on contin-
nous drunk since election day and was
clearly out of his right mind when he
committed the terrible deed.
He went 10 the mine that morning
but came back TO his sisters house.
where he boarded, shortly afterwards
saying that the bosses told him he
ought to be at Newberry instead Of
working under ground Tns sister ad-
vised him TO seek a job in the woods.
While talking he held razor in his
hand anc, without any intimation Of
what be intended doing. he slashed at
his throat The woman caught his
hand and sought TO get the razor away
from him and in the struggle the
handle was broken off He then slash
ed himself again twice while the
woman IAN to neighbor's house for
assistance.
When she returned he was in the
death agony. He never spoke after
the first slash was made.
The neighbors tell Of the man queer
actions Immediately preceding the
tragedy and they were such as to leave
no doubt in the minds of the coroner Z
jury that the man was insane from ex-
cessive alcoholism.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21

Sam Jacobs, the we'll known Mans
field saloon keeper has added fresh
laurel 10 his reputation as hunter.
Sam has been known in the past as q
terror TO the feet footed tribe and his
eye has been that OF an eagle in dis
eliminating between deer and other
objects He must have worked his
eagle eye over time lately for IL is
stated on reliable information that one
evening last week he shot seven shots
at the moon. having mistaken the man
therein for deer just as he was peep
ing through the brush tor the tirsi
time
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21
Private Lighting System.

The county board has decided TO
light the buildings at the poor farm
with.electric light and have acquired
a private system with which the
buildings will be lighted.
The light is furnished by batteries
which are charged az needed 10y the
company installing the plant.
The cost OF one of these plants Is
about $3.50 and many Of them are being
installed in the farming country.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21
Another Robbery.

The saloon Of Erick Erickson was
robbed again last Monday night. about
seven dollars In silver being taken from
the cash register.
The thief kicked panel out Of the
side door and crawlel through tbs hole
into the room
Mr.. Erickson's saloon has been the
scene OF several robberies and u looks
as II some Dne was picking him ont for
a plucking right along.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21
A Silver Grey Fox.

ike Oswald is the luckiest hunter
that went into the woods abont here,
II not in the entire upper peninsula
for. while hunting on the head waters
Of the Deer this week he bagged a
silver grey fox.
FOXES Of this color are very rare
specimens and it is claimed that the
fur IL worth in the neiQhborhood of
$500
Those who have seen Mr. Oswald =
fox say that II Is a pure silver grey
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21

ID. buck last Tuesday. On Monday she
missed a fine shot OF about twenty
yarda and Mr.. V. thought tnat she
ought TO be roasted for the performance
but when a message arrived telling Of
the big buck she bagged he relented.
Bob" Wilson has been wondering
how Hinie" has been making it as
he figures Hinie tenderfoot but re-
ports say that he stood right mp with
the best Of them.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21

Andrew Nelson informs a reporter
for tnis paper that his planning mill
will not be rebuilt in the city. He
may rebuild IL again in the vicinity OF
the city but not where IL was.
Mr. Nelson feels very downcast over
the outcome Of his venture and be has
just reason for feeling 70. Had the
mill gone along as he planned he would
have given employment 20 about five
men
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-11-21
Services Resumed.

The Milwaukee sleeper has again
been placed in commission, making
the first triT south FROM Champion last
Monday instead Of Thursday as was
first announced, tits hard to under
stand why the seryicewas discontinued
In the first place. The car has been
well patronized for years The with.
drawaI resulted 10 the St Paul road
losing considerable percentage Of It's
peninsula business for the time.
J. I. Gibson WAS down from Amasa
last Wednesday on business
The Washington herald., 1908-05-17

club be her OF the big reception rooms
Willard weeks later, the secretary mean
while 10 Senator'S and Representa-
tives to be present
There $50 women in attendance at the New VIII
lard and the Congressional Club then definitely launched.
has gone forward organization with officers consitu-
ton and by-laws-drawn up committee Of which Mrs.
Perkins chairman-and all the other sppurtenances
of ull-grown club except a clubhouse.
Mrs Perkins been elected president Her fellow
officers Mrs Henry Cabot Lodge Of Massachusetts,.
nrs president Mrs Williams, vice president;
Mrs Champ Clark OF Missouri third vice president; Mrs
Joseph NJ Dixon of Montana, fourth vice president and
Mrs Kahn fifth vice president Mrs sloat Fassett of
New York recording secretary. and Miss Wood sister
of Representative Wood Of New Jersey. treasurer
II a womans husband has ever been Senator Of Rep
resentative whether his wife became charter member
rerained from Joining until after his retirement
the post OF national lswmaker she is always eligible
membership in the Congressional Club In addition
the wives Of Consressmen, the constitution provides for
the admission the immediate family of Congressman
of 100 from the immediate families the
government-members Of the Cabinet assistant secretaries
justices Supreme Court and heads Of The
wife Of the President President are hon
orary members.
The who the heads Of their respective fam
ies pay initiation fees Of 80 each and
Of SIS The yearly dues of her relatives S. If won
an by of those oversghts Of which often hap
pen with regard to Congressman to Wash
ington she still the glory her former greatness
so far as the club concerned and she money for
as member nonresident her annual dues only S.
has her club whenever she does happen 4
be Washington.
And lastly for the comfort Of the timid souls whC
dreaded financial complications the club is solemny boun
by constitution 10 give entertainment unles
The Washington herald., 1908-05-17
Mother. may ] 60 out 70 fyT"
Yes. ms darling daughter.
Don't 90 mere than two miles high,
And keep away trom the water.

That's what the boy who sells praliues
on the banquette IN the Rue ROyale, New
Orleans was singing when Rhodora and
I passed that way this morning. I tried
not to hear; I even quiekened my steps a
little lest Rhodora should hear. but all
in vain. She stopped where she was and
had it out with me on the spot.
You promised me things" she said
''You kept me away from Washington
in May by your deoeitful words. You
dragged me on to see New Orleans when
It wouldn't be dressed up for tourists.
You promised me local color and quaint
ness and picturesqueness. and I brushed
up my French to come. And this is what
] get
The praliues are good, I ventured to
say
Good Rhodora shifted. Good! What
DO I care for the taste Of them? You let
me think they'd be sold by a dear old
NANNY with a real bandanna on her
head, and they'd be made by real re-
duced-by-the-war gentlewoman in the
French Quarter after a recipe that had
been in her family a hundred years. And
here they're sold by a boy who calls the
banquette a sidewalk and doesn't speak a
word Ct French. and know-I know
Nose -praliues are made in atlanta OF
Habskur. Your New orleans. Part OF
it's brand-new and the rest Of it's dirty
and that's all there Is TO say about IT, -
I reasoned with Rhodora to the best OF
my ability. but Rhodora can outtalk me
Rhodora cant understand progress. She
The Washington herald., 1908-05-17

there is enough to pay for and 500 in
the treasury
Next fall. they're going 70 get a clubhouse
1t was coincidence that about the time Mrs Perkins
Invited Mrs Williams the others her residence on
New Hampshire avenue, Mrs. Williams daughter, Miss
Julia F. williams asked her home Girard street
friends, among them Miss Bessie Lamb Of Vr
ginia Chapman. Of Illinois; Miss Blanche
stephens and Miss Willie Cooper Texas Miss Caroline
Hubbard Maine; Miss Hull OF Iowa, and Miss Broad
head. OF Pennsylvania
Miss williams and Miss Lamb together in oroach-
ing the idea of composed Of the daughters Of
members OF Congress- and nobody to this day
nobody shall ever know-whether it Miss VIII
iams or Miss Lamb who first thought OF H.
minute they thought OF it they could it was
good thing why. Washington simply filed with
the loveest girls who back of apartment doors with
their mothers waiting helpessy for other lovely girls to
drop In the wicker baskets and again, in
the desperate effort keep up with the Senatorial at
homes on Thursdays and the Congressional athomes on
Tuesdays and Supreme Court at-hones Mondays,
with the Cabinet at-homes turning up Wednesdays to
take up poor girls time in odd weeks when she might
be forming some genuine intimacies.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-17

beyond words by the stTeet-car system.
Like those Of Denver and Indianapolis, 1t
is the finest in the woT d. He expected
US 20 g into eestasieg over St Charles
aveLue. (You can take the floral deco
rati0ns OF Los Angeles and the lawns of
Euclid avenue and a book of designs for
thousand very expensive houses and
make another street just like II any day.
He showed us huge new department
stores he drove US through a park like
Lincoln Park in Chicago. II we hadn I
escaped from him we'd never have got
over the idea that New Orleans is inn
proving faster and growing faster than
any other town in the country. His only
idea of local color was fresh paint We'd
never have been able to rid ourselves of
the horrid consciousness that New Or
leans is exceedingly healthy and that II
does more business than any other sea
port south of New York.
Resolutely we evaded him and escaped
from all the newness and up-to-dsteness
and palatial-homes-from m-the- bacls-o the
nagizines-ness-and Rhodora's first i'm
preston of the other side Of New Orleans
was dirt (Washingtonians. think, have
a wholly abnormal and regrettable fond
ness for a clean town, and it's mighty
hard to get them TO appreciate the beauty
that depends not on design, but on age
and accident) The French market dis
appointed her. She couldn't see the ex-
ceIlence Of its arches She could see only
its flies, and the pFovincialism OF your
true Washingtonian spoke out.
1--WE wouldn't stand them a minute al
hove" she said.
Then her disdainfuI eye feel on the lace
tracery of the ironwork on balcony not
far away. Rhodora's eyes changed.
Look at that" she said. did yoI
ever see anything more exquisite? AND
there's a biack-eyed woman up there in
white frock ThisH-she paused ecstatic
The Washington herald., 1908-05-17

wall Those wall tombs. four layers high.
wouldn't be tolerated in a city where peo-
pie live in fats Your flat-dweller con-
soles himself with the thought that death
will take him out of a layer, not put him
into one-an oven, I say. from which the
Identifying slab has fallen, leaving bricks
displaced. One might peep In if one were
ghoullshIy inclined And the very next
oven has a date OF this year on 1t.
What do they do wBen all the ovens
are fuH?" Rhodora asked.
whisked her away, There used to be
a name l knew on the slab where the
new glIt-lettered slab is now, but that
was ten years ago. and lots Of things
happen IN ten years. Perhaps those
ovens are merely rented for a term Of
years; I don't know and [ don't want TO
know. But in spite of its skyserappers
and its great hotels, New Orleans is
Latin at heart. We went of to find Do
mfnique You's tomb. which, TO my way
of thinking. would make New Orleans
worth visiting If the town had nothing
else to show. Il IS plain brick stuc-
coed >tomb, with this inscription:
Intripide auerrier sur la teTre ct SIR ionde
Il sut dams cent c0nibats aknaleT sa Faieur
Et &c nouvesux BayRId sans feiToche e SINS pe1I
Aurait ps sans trenbler yoir secTouier le monde
This modest tribute, Is signed 'Isnard. y
There is no date. PERHAPS Dominique
You felt he did not need one. One scarce
ly needs a date on Napoleons tomb or
Alexander's. an argument that would
have appealed to this follower of LATTE.
what time the BarataTia pirates fought
with Jackson against the English. One
hopes that the whole credit for the vie-
tory belongs 20 Dominique You. and per
haps Il does. The ancient man who shows
you the tomb thinks 50. and who wants
to contradict him? They've stolen all oui
The Washington herald., 1908-05-17

can't understand, either, that your genu-
inc American loathes anything pictur-
esque unless there's money in It, His at
titude toward It Is precisely that OF the
man at the fair toward the negro's head
that pops up 10 be hit for a cigar. Every
time he sees Ii he does his best to smash
It. Left to himself, he goes out West and
builds him a town with all the streets
wide and crossing at right angles and
puts in modern Improvements and is per-
fectly happy Turned loose in New Or
leans. he is doing his level best to make
New Orleans look like a cross between
Minneapolis and i4os Angeles. with a lit
tie flavor of New York. It's a bit hard
on Rhodora, that boys song. She expect
ed Nam selle Zi-zi' or Femme ROmu-
lus, Ohe" or something else Of the sort,
and she didn't expect TO hear the final I
sounded in Carondelet and she didn't ex-
pect the Rue Royale to be brazenly called
Royal street. She's read stories about
New Orleans and she's heard people talk
about the city as it is at carnival time,
and the real New Orleans is a shock to
her.
The new white skycraper in Canal
street is a personal grievance 20 Rho
dora. I have explained to her that it
cant possibly stay white long. The pail
of soft coal smoke that hangs over the
Mississippi Valley from St. Paul down
will attend to that. but she replies that
/ it will always be a slkyscrapper. Our
/ hotel offends her II 1t were not for the
beef tea-colored water that gushes into
/ the bathtub she'd never guess. she says.
/ that she wasn't IN the newest hotel at
home, and the water even isn't peculiar
| TO New Oroleans. You get 1t just as
muddy in st. Louis. Unhappily for US.
/ ii was a business man of the city who
/ first took us about, and you know how a
business man feels about the sights of his
] home town. He expected uE to be charmed