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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-12-18
Meeting Of school superintendent.

The first meeting Of the copper country
Superintendent Round Table for this
year will be held in the Office of the
superintendent of schools at Houghton
on Saturday morning, December 18, at
nine o'clock.
The following will be up for discussion:
Vocationa Training VS.. Manual Train
ing, and County Institutes: how shall
they be conducted and when held?
The first subject is timely one be-
cause of the industrial commission
which has been appointed by the govern
or to investigate the whole question
in this state. tits hoped that all sup
erintendents will present their ideas
on both questions at this meeting.
Supt. Mellencamp, of this village, is
among those present.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-12-18
Many wre,ched Jails.

Lansing, Mich. Dec. 16-According to
M. T. Murray, secretary of the state
boari of corrections and charities, many
Of the iails and almshouses of the state
are in wretched condition. Mr.. MUIR
ray states that he has submitted re-
port to the board which will be used for a
basis of summary action against some
county authorities by the board unless
prompt attention is paid to the rec
concentrations for improvements in
these buildings.
At the time the report was made IS
counties in the northern part of the
state have been visited by Mr.. Murray,
and in many Of them he found frightful
conditions surrounding the care of un-
fortunates and children in jails and
county infirmaries, as well as an utter
disregard Of the law relative to the hand
ling of juvenile cases. In some poor
houses he visited, sick men and women,
foolish persons and young children were
herded together.
Some of the conditions which Mr.. Muir
ray discovered are altogether to degrad-
ng to be mentioned in print, and that
public authorities will countenance such
an act Of disregard of both the law and
sanitation, is all the more deplorable,
and it is hoped that these Investigations
will bring beneficial results.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-12-18
Supper A Success.

The supper and sale given by the
Young Ladies of the Epworth League
in the Town Hall last Saturday evening.
ives grand success, financially and
socially. Though the hall was not crowd
ed, a goody number were present and
partook of the excellent feast, AZ well
as enjoyed the other attractions.
The sum of one hundred and three
dollars was netted as the result Of the
evenings enjoyment.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-12-18
LOCAL ITEMS

Messrs. Gust DahIberg and Leander
Lundberg of Skanee, were L'Anse Wis
itors Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S.W. Beck moved into
the cottage erected by the village at
the new electric-hydro.power plant last
week.
Charles o. Marceau expects to leave
the fore part Of the week for the cop
per country, where he has secured q
few days contract in electrical wiring
and painting.
Miss Laura McKindles was a copper
country visitor this week.
Mrs. J. B. Smith spent Sunday in
Houghton.
H. J.. Seifert transacted business in
Houghton Monday.
Peter Newman, Of Skanee, was a
L'Anse visitor Tuesday.
Messrs. w. L. Mason and DR.. w. A.
Won Zellen transacted business in Mar
quette Friday.
j. T. Barrett, of Hancock, spent Fri
day in L'Anse.
| Atty. Hubert A. Brennan will open up
a law Office in Calumet after January1st.
Thomas c. Thompson, keeper of the
Light House at Sand Point, turned Out
the glim on the 18th, thus ending the
season of 1909.
Mrs. John McComb, Of Skanee, is
confined to her home with pneumonia.
The directors of the Baraga County
National Bank held meeting Tuesday.
Messrs. w. H. Oakley, Of Covingtor
and F. w. Hebard, of Pequaming, were
present.
| Thomas Cosgrove, of L'Anse, and
Mrs. Nugent, of Baraga, were business
visitors at Newberry this week, having
in custody Mrs. Alex Anderson, insane,
of Baraga.
S. d. Murphy has been kept busy
the past week, blasting pine stumps or
the farmlof j. B. Belanger, in the vii
lage limits.
Miss Mary Voetsch was Houghtor
visitor Tuesday and Wednesday.
Miss Zoe Proctor, who is attending
the Northern State Normal at Mar
quette, passed through L'Anse Frida!
en- route to her home in Pequaming
to spend the Xmas Holiday.
Miss Theresa M. Menge is expecte,
home today from Kalamazoo, where she
is attending the Western Normal, t
spend Christmas.
| Miss Aurelia Murphy is expected +
arrive in L'Anse, from Ypsilanti, toda
to spend the Xmas holidays at her home
Mrs. George Sanregret and daughter
Beatrice, left yesterday evening fo
Ottawa, Ontario, on few weeks visi
with relatives.
Mrs. Octave Sicotte and childre
leaves Monday for several weeks visi
with relatives at Minneapolis and Fiai
bault.
Miss Olga Won Zellen arrived Sunda
from Grand Rapids.
E. w. Waldron, who has been CUES
Z Of DIR. w. A. Won Zellen. left Thursda
for his home in Tucson, Arizona.
Mrs. Walfred Been. Of Skanee wh
has been seriously III, is considerabl
49, - u.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-12-18
Keweenaw Bay Notes.
CORES : PoNpENcE .


Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Roubillard were
Baraga visitors Tuesday.
William Johnston and family, of Mo
hawk, are visiting Keweenaw Bay
friends this week.
Frank Douglas has resigned his po-
sition at the mill, and leaves for the C.
& H. smelters today.
A. Cote was in town Thursday.
Miss Lydia Rossberg is aguest of cop
per country friends this week.
Fred Confer returned to his home ir
this village this week, from Ahmeek.
H. j. Pennock, chief of police of Bar
aga, passed through Keweenaw Bay
Tuesday, en- route to Arnheim.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-12-18
Basket BAN Tonight.

L'Anse Opera House will be the scene
ofuan interesting event tonight, the oc-
casion being the initial basket ball game
of the season.
L'Anse high school will battle for hon.
ors with the Calumet Alumni team, and
and we are safe in saying that it will
be hard-fought battle.
The lineup of the L'Anse team will
be; Crebassa, center; LeDuc, leftguard
Sterk, right guard; Shea, right forward;
Brennan, left forward.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-12-18
BARAGA GRANGE PROGRESSING.
Interesting Meeting Held Saturday Last
At Meeting House.

The Grange social held last Saturday
evening at Girard's schoolhouse netted
about twenty-five dollars, which is to be
set aside in a building fund for proposed
Grange Hall. A large crowd was pres
sent, the schoolhouse having all the
people it could comfortably hold.
The membership Of this society totals
ninety now, and within another meet
ing, top the hundred mark.
The Grange is great help socially
as well as intellectu ally, SO no live far
mer can afford to stand outside. Hand
your application with the admission fee
to some Granger and the Grange will
do the rest.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-12-18
BASKET BALL SCHEDULE ARRANGED.
List Received BY Superintendent Mellen
camp This Week.

camp This Week.
Principal Hall of the Calumet high
school has prepared the schedule for the
high school basket ball league. 1t has
been sent to the various schools in
the league for their approval or reject
ion.
The schedul is as follows:
Calumet at home
Week of Jan. 3 with Hancock.
Week of Jan. 10 with L'Anse.
Week of Feb. 8 with Houghton.
Week of Feb. 22 with Lake Linden.
Hancock at home
Week of Jan. 10 with Houghton.
Week of Jan. 81 with L'Anse.
Week of Feb. Is with Lake Linden.
Week of Mar. with Calumet.
Houghton at home
Week of Jan 8. with Lake Linden.
Week of Jan. II with Calumet.
Week of Jan. 81 with L'Anse.
Week of Feb. % with Hancock.
L'Anse at home
Week of Jan. II with Hancock.
Week of JAM, "a with Calumet.
Week of Feb. s with Lake Linden.
Week of Feb. Is with Houghton.
Lake Linden at home
Week of Jan. 10 with L'Anse.
Week of Jan. "a with Hancock.
Week of Jan. 81 with Calumet.
Week of Mar. with Houghton.
The schedule as arranged, will mear
that L'Anse will have to play LAX,
Linden andCalumet on succeeding nights
during the week of January 10, and viii
also have to play Hancock and Hough
ton during the week of January 31st.
OF course our boys realize that the
trips are expensive. and the schedule
has been arranged harder for them thar
for any other team, every year, but W,
have to bear it and, at the end of sea
son give our opponents the laugh wheI
they look so forlorn at US landing on tn
top of the heap. If we can't fix th'
schedule, we can certainly nail tn
championship, as demonstrated in tn
past two years.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
FURIOUS MEETING IN
NAPLES DEPARTMENT
FlREMEN COMPLAIN OF BAD
CONDITIONS
Mayor and Council Members Try to
ouelI the Disturbance and Are
Roughly ousted from
Barracks

MILAN, DecI J. Two hundred members of
the Naples fire brigade broke out in furious
mutiny the other day in the course Of which
the mayor Of the city narrowly escaped being
lynched.
The fire brigade men, who live in barracks.
recently addressed a memorial TO the city
ccuncll, complaining of bad food low wages
and, most Of all, because instead of promo
tlon to higher posts being made from their
own ranks, these offices were filled by the
appointment of military engineers outside the
brigade
When the men were informed that the coun-
ell turned a deaf ear to their grievances they
ralded the officers quarters, and, taking their
astonished superior singly by the neck, threw
him out into the street. They then barricaded
the barracks gates.
Later the mayor robed and with the insig-
mia of office and attended by beavy of town
councillors, appeared the scene, and was
admitted He proceeded to harangue the fire
brigade exhorting them to cease their agita-
tion, in which case no punishments would be
inflicted. The men listened attentively TIL
the mayor added Resist still, and your revolt
is vain for tie whole city of Naples is against
YOU when the mayor was greeted with shouts
OF you are brazen liarl' and was rudely
chased out of the barracks with his retinue.
The prefect sent regiment Of bersaglieri to
quell the riot. occupy the barracks and dis
arm the firemen Several marine fire brigades
were ordered ashore from warships to protect
the city in the event of outbeaks of'fre. The
city authorities finally decided to diabapd the
mutineer brigade,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
OFFICIAL ADVISED
CHANGING or NAME
SENSATION SPRUNG IN LAND
FRAUD CASES 7
Witness from Iowa Testifies That TWO
Defendants Were Told of Way
to Help Deceive the
Government

DENVER, Dec. II. - Sensational
testimony was given in the federal
court here today by witnesses from
Iowa, in the suit to recover coal lands
in Routt county, Colorado, that had
been obtained, it is alleged, by means
of dummy entries and in other alleged
fraudulent ways.
At the conclusion of today's hearing,
Judge Lewis announced that a prima
facie case already had been made
against "a part of" the defendants,
and that all motions for non-sults
would be overruled.
The suit directed against the officers
and directors of the Union Land COM
pany.. N. G.. Koser, a farmer of Iowa
City, Iowa, declared that Frank Nc
Donough, secretary, an attorney Tor
the defendant company, had said TO
him:
unless we get these thousands of
acres of coal lands into the hands or
innocent purchasers for the benett OF
the Union Land company we Will not
only lose the whole thing, but we are
going to get into litigation with the
government and you stockholders
(Koser being a stockholder), of the
company, may have to 60 to the pen
itentiary with the officers. The filings
have been irregular and we must cover
up"
Koser said he had been lured into
the deal in 1902, but did not suspect
fraud until two years ago.
THE promoters told us they had OBJ
tanned the land from the entrymen
and in an irregular way" Koser add
ed.
S. X. Stevenson, an attorney OF
Iowa City, caused a sensation by de-
claring that two of the defendants had
been advised by minor official" at
the land. office at Washington to
change the name of the company and
bury it deep to help the fraud"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
FIVE WElGHERS
ARE CONVICTED
EMPLOYEES OF SUGAR TRUST
FOUND GUILTY
MERCY is RECOMMENDED FOR
TOOLS OF COMBINE
Men Disagree as to Guilt or Innocence
of Former Cashier BendernageI.
Clemency of the Court
Is Urged
ASSOCIATED Pressl

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE jury to-
night found guilty five of the six en-
ployes of the American Sugar REIN
ing company who have been on trial
for the last three weeks charged with
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment of customs duties on imported
raw sugar.
In the case of James +. Benderna-
gal, a former cashier of the company's s
Williamsburg plant. the jury disa-
greed Mercy is recommended for all
those found guilty
The jury was out ten hours. Under
the Indictment oliver Splitter, dock su-
perintendent: John r. Coyle. Thomas
Kehoe, Edward A. Byle and Patrick j.
Hennessey, checkers, may be pun
islied for the commission of two overt
acts, the maximum penalty for each
of which is two years Imprisonment
and $4,000 fine.
The failure to convict Cashier Ben
dernagel is regarded by the govern
ment as distinct disappointment.
The effort Of the prosecution to trace
the customs frauds already admitted
to higher source; and Bendernagel,
though not an executive officer of the
company, came in contact with those
"higher up"
Special emphasis was laid by Mr..
Stimson in his summing up on such
evidence as tended to show culpabil
lty upon the part of Bendernagel.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
DIED OF BROKEN HEART

Capt Jesse r. Jamison, rs, dean of
the Mississippi river pilots, and one of
the men who guided the steamer
Robert e. Lee on its famous race with
the Natchez, died of a broken heart,
according to his old and intimate
friend, John J. Flynn, with whom
Captain Jamison was living at the
time of his death.
Captain Jamison died following a
stroke of paralysis Thanksgiving day.
Though this was the immediate cause
of his demise, Flynn thinks he wor-
ried himself to death over a contest
of his wife's will, now pending in the
supreme court. When Mrs Jamison
died, four years ago, she willed him
only nominal interest In the property
he had worked for and placed in her
name. He contested the will in the
circuit court, where the decision was
against him. He then appealed to the
higher tribunal.
Captain Jamisons only wish was 10
live to see the contest settled" said
Flynn.
1t was Captain Jamison who brought
the steamer Robert II. Lee triumphant
ly into st. Louis on the Fourth of
July. 1870. a little before noon, three
days, is hours and IA minutes out of
New Orleans, thereby winning by six
hours and 36 minutes the historic race
with the Natchez.
Captain Jamison is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Mary Greenwood and Mrs.
ELLEN Hanley, both of st. Louis.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
WOMAN STEALS THINGS
SHE CANNOT PURCHASE
Aged Resident of GarVanza Takes
Lace and TrInkets from
Local Department
Stores

"I saw so many pretty things in the
store windows, and ! did not have the
money to buy them" was the plea Of
Mrs. Maggie Cramer an aged woman
of Garvanza, when she was booked at
the city prison yesterday afternoon on
a charge of shoplifting preferred by the
Nick Harris detectives, who had trailed
her through the downtown department
stores.
Twenty dollars worth of gloves,
laces and cheap jewelry were found in
the womans possession, which are al
legged to have been taken from Hale's
and Jacoby's department stores yes
terday afternoon. These will be used
as evidence.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
NATIVE WIVES CAUSE OF
HEAD HUNTERS UPRISING
Solomon Islands Warriors Murder
White Man, Spouse and Children,
and Then Attack Station

VICTORIA, b. c., Dec. 17.-The
head hunters of the Solomon Islands
are on the warpath because of mar
riage between their women and white
men, according to news brought from
the Antipodes yesterday by the royal
mail steamer Aorangi.
Two golden-haired children, five and
nine years old. have fallen under the
wrath of the head hunters. as well as
their father, a white planter and their
mother. native woman and several
native servants.
The children were mutilated beyond
recognition. The planter was Joseph
Binisken. The attack on him and his
little family was led by Site, notorl-
Gus chief, who has made vow to
extermnate all white men married to
natives, and their offspring.
Binisken and his family were sur
prised in their home on the island of
Bagga. Mrs. Binisken escaped the
first rush, but was killed while at
tempting to swim away from the is
land
An attack was also made on the
trading station at Elsa, but the Brit
ish traders stood off the natives sue
cessfully,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
ZELAYA TELLS TAFT
HE HAS SHOWN GOOD
FAITH BY RESIGNING

MANAGUA, Dec. 17.-President Ze-
laya last night cabled a conciliatory
message to President Taft, saying that
/ he had shown him good faith by re-
signing, so that Nicaragua might re-
sumo friendly relations with the
United States.
He added that he proposed to leave
the country, but stood ready to ac-
count for his action as president.
Zelaya's message to President Taft
follows:
"On December IA cabled to Wash
ington this message: Secretary Knox:
1 believe that the sources of your in
formation are prejudiced and request
that the United States send a commits
sion of investigator. If its findings
show my administrator to be detri-
mental to Central America, 'Wll re-
sign
Il have received no reply. To avoid
harm to my country and desiring that
1t shall renew friendly relations with
the United States, 1 have today sent
my resignation to congress. AS my
opponents consider my presence a dis
turbing factor / propose to show my
good faith by leaving Nicaragua.
stand ready to account for my acts"
United States Vice Consul Harry H.
Leonard stationed at Corinto, arrived
mere lOudy " dSSlSt ACllllB CONSUL Gdl-
dera. A service by courier has been.
established between Managua and Co
rinto to keep the officers of the Amer
lean troops in Cornto harbor informed
of developments at the capital.
Collier Arrives
The United States collier Saturn ar
rived at Corinto today.
DIR. Julian Irias, minister general,
hoe tod nrsa1 a lIxr
with a view to his elevation to the
supreme command of the army when
DR.. Madriz assumes the presidency.
The opponents of Madriz claim this
will result virtually in military die
tatorship by Irias.
Pending the absence from Corinto of
Vice Consul Leonard, a United States
naval officer has been placed in charge
of the consulate there.
The Americans i'll Managua have
asked that they be informed of any
proposed landing of American troops
in order that they may remove their
families to Corinto
The governors of the departments OF
Granada and Leon have been removed
from office and replaced by men known
to be favorable to DR.. Julian Irias,
minister general. and to DR.. Madriz,
both of whom have presidential as
pirationS.
David Arellano, who was arrested
last November in a celebration at
Granada in honor of President Taft's
election, which the government inter-
preted as a movement in favor of
American annexation, was released
from the penitentiary today.
A reception committee of six has
been appointed to meet DR.. Madriz on
his arrival at Corinto Sunday. Heavy
recruiting is going on here.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
WILL GROW FRUIT UNDER
GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION
Local Weather Bureau Superintendent
to Observe Citrus Conditions in
Imperial Valley Territory

Observations are being made In the
Imperial valley by the United States
weather bureau in order to ascertain
whether citrus fruit can be grown to
advantage in that section.
Two temperature stations have al
ready been established near Brawley
by the government, and A. B. Wollaber,
in charge of the Los Angeles weather
bureau, left last night to install several
more. A large area in the Imperial
valley has recently been planted to
citrus trees, and the governments ac-
ton undoubtedly will be of great BEN
eft to the farmers.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
WOMAN WITH WOODEN LEG
is HELD BY AUTHORITIES
Mary A. Ettinger May Not Have Con-
formed with immigration
Regulations

BOSTON, Dec. 17.-Among the immi-
grants detained at the immigration
station at Long Wharf is Mary Et-
finger, aged 35 years, who arrived
here on the Cunard steamer Invernia.
The woman Travelled in the second
cabin and appeared to be in comfort
able circumstances.
1t developed that she had come from
her home in England to accept the
position of cook in the household of
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the Chris
tian Science leader. The woman has
a wooden leg. Another artificial leg
was found among the baggage.
She was debarred, and may be de-
ported unless the authorities at Wash
ington, to whom she has appealed, re-
verse the decision of the local officials.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
CHINESE STUDENTS WILL
ESTABLISH OWN SCHOOL

SEATTLE, Dec. 1.-THE fourteen
rich Chinese boys who came to Seattle
last month to gain an American educa
tion have taken steps to incorporate
a private school under the state laws
and to devote themselves to the study
of English in order to enter the uni
versity next fall.
1t is expected the school will be made
permanent, and there will be a con-
stant flow of young Chinese students
to it.
A large party of Chinese girl students
is expected to arrive soon.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
WARSI1lPS SENT
TO NICARAGUA
Continued from Page one,


gave the Associated Press the follow
ing statement of his country's atti-
tude in regard to Nicaraguan affairs:
"As to the revolution, the govern
ment of Costa Rica has endeavored to
maintain by all means the strictest
neutrality.
Deplores Breach
Regarding the differences unfortu-
nately existing between Nicaragua and
the United States the Costa Rican
government earnestly deplores the
strained relations between the two
countries and the consequent situation.
while Costa Rica would be ready
to do all within its means toward
happy solution, it has taken no action
whatever in the matter, the govern
ment having no opportunity to CO.
operate to that end"
Also, with reference to publications
made in which Senor Don Ricardo
Jiminez, president-elect of Costa Rica,
had been made to appear as having
antl-American sentiments, Minister
Calvo emphatically affirmed what he
has already said, that is, that these
are erroneous and incorrect assertions.
Senior Jiminez, he said is a prominent
lawyer, a man of high character and
a true patriot with keen appreciation
OF Central American sovereignty and
an earnest desire that the traditional
good relations between Costa Rica and
the United States shall continue as
friendly as ever.
President Taft has received the tele-
gram from President Zelaya in which
he admits that the message proposing
an American commission to investi-
gate conditions in Nicaragua was not
sent to Secretary Knox, as he had
stated IN a public interview, but that
the message was sent to the Nicara-
guam charge, Mr. Rodriguez, for trans
mission to the secretary.
The message, however, was never de-
livered at the state department.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
MAN SUPPOSED DEAD
RISES, BUT DIES LATER

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 1L-As
an undertaken started to prepare the
body of Edward Murphy for burial the
supposed dead man arose in bed and
yaWned.
81 feel better after that long sleep"
he said.
Murphy had been in a state of coma
for ten hours. He had been an invalid
for a long time. But the undertaken
was soon recalled, for Murphy really
died yesterday after Joking the fright
ened embalmer about his first death.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
ALLEGE SHOPLIFTER IS
WIFE OF WEALTHY MAN
Police Suspect Woman Arrested in
Broadway Store of Giving Them
Fictitious Name

A middle-aged woman who gave her
name as Mrs. r. S. Jacobs, but who Is
believed by the detectives to be the
wife of a we'll known rancher of Santa
Ana, was arrested yesterday after
noon in the Broadway department
store and charged with shoplifting.
In large Slit pockets in the slde'o her
coat were found several pairs of
new gloves, beads and quantities of
cheap jewelry.
At the police station the woman ad-
mitted her guilt and pleaded with the
police that should her identity be dis
covered they would not notify her
husband. This is thought to be her
first attempt at shoplifting.