The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-02-21
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THE OPEN FORUM.
wEsTPHAL,THE TOWN KNoCKER
(By DR.. Won Zellen.)

It is noticed in last weeks Farmer
where Westphal bemoans the fact that
l do not "air my grievances" in his pa
per. If l did attempt such an unheard
of proposition, it would have the same
similarity as if Belgium, during the
height of hostilities, aired hers in the
the german press against german bru-
talities and atrocities. Or as if an in
nocent rabbit appeared before weas-
ell, skunk or wolf, apologizing to said
weasel, skunk or wolf for not permit
ting said weasel, skunk or wolf for not
permitting said weasel, skunk or wolf
to tear him in pieces and devour him.
These grievances of mine would be
twisted into lying and distorted docu-
ments because l know Westphal and
his breed. Possibly with rabbits
foot in one hand and spiked club in
the other and going personally to the
Farmer office might, be able, to settle
my grievances more abruptly than
Westphal's health would care to al
low, but that would not satisfy the
people as to my integrity and justify
myself before honest men and women.
Taking up Article No. 2 of West
phal's graft insinuations against me
considering the $8,O00.00 grab, let me
elucidate and prove him political
crook with his ever-varying lies and
presentations. This S8,000.00 was al
lowed by the county board after pre-
vious board, ten years before, had al
lowed same with Rees & Robinson Of
Houghton as attorneys, antagonistic
at the time. DR.. Buckland Of Baraga
during the first allowance induced the
Nester Estate, bankrupt institution,
to file an injunction against it, Rees
& Robinson being Nester's retainers,
while w. L. Mason was bondsman for
same. know no reason why the Bar
aga doctor should continue to meddle
with this proposition, after consider
ing the fact that the Real Pharmacy
and Romulus Buckland received a
round 100000 for small pox cases
confined in the village of Baraga
alone, and which lasted not over two
months, with no long cold drives to
make. That the doctor had person
al grudge against us cannot be denied
when he carried this spite out in about
the same way as Westphal is now do
ing, with the exception that the money
consideration was larger. Consider
ing the work accomplished for the
eight thousand dollar allowance, we
will discuss the several places where
services were performed for small pox
and allied diseases involved in the
above. The Skanee cases in the win
ter of 1901, where small pox and ty-
phoid fever broke in camps ten and
twelve miles from Skanee in the will
derness on the Huron River. To these
camps the doctor drove every day for
weeks and months, having to act as
doctor, nurse and maid combined, re-
ducing fevers, changing clothing and
bedding, preparing food for the sick
and doing other necessities demanded
by very sick people. This would oc-
cupy the time from the arrival in the
forenoon until night, when the medi-
cal man would start for home and re-
/ tive ~, tbo sr,oII bo,,rc 80 +bo ,,,o~x,
ing. After two to four hours, sleep
this procedure was repeated. The
weather was between 20 and 80 de-
grees below zero, with the roads bare
| ly passable. The only other traffic
was tote team making weekly trips
to camp. The snow here was several
feet deep and the whole condition was
almost unbearable. 1t must be real
ized that round trip to these camps
was nearly sixty miles.
Consider the Arvon cases, where
ten or more men contracted small pox
in Skanee, being moved to pest
house in Arvon where they were at
tended by US. The place had to be
visited every day for six weeks, the
same work performed here as in the
camps on the Huron, the round trip
being "a miles. The Pequaming cas-
es, where small pox, diphtheria, and
scarlet fever broke out and where hun
dreds Of humans, large and small, be-
came afflicted with the various dis
eases. Here the doctors had to stay
night after night administering anti
toxine and otherwise helping those in
distress, with the satisfaction of re-
alizing afterwards that during this ep-
idemic we did not lose case. This
condition lasted the greater part Of
the winter.
Again consider the small pox cases
at Silvsrthorn's camp, where round
trips were 120 miles. The doctor
would start from L'Anse at twelve
o'clock midnight. arrive at Champion