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9 a rf ntiiielo He 5e VOL. 18. NO. 36. L'ANSE, MICH.. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1898. TERMS: $1.50 PER YEAR. Ml se CITY ITEMS. Wade Alston is visiting friends in town. Edward Nichols, of Nestoria, was .in town Monday. John Messner, of Newtonville,was in the city Wednesday. A meeting of the township board was held yesterday morning. Mrs. M. Wallaco arrived home from Houghton last Saturday after noon. Miss Esphilirina Belanger is visit ing friends in Baraga for a number of days. Little Louise Ingersoll, of Hough ton, is the guest or her aunt, Mrs. M. .Wallace. There's nothing new. Our grand mothers often took spins' on chain less wheels. Mrs. Will Harris of Houghton, visited at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Smith this week. Miss Myra Wiley, who spent her school vacation in lower Michigan, returned nome iusi. wt-en. Attention is called to the change of advertisement in this issue, of the Ishpeming steam laundry. Master Will Wallace, Snio has been at Houghton for the past month, returned nnme Wednes day. Tbe Misses Nannie and Eliza Turner entertained a numbel of their friends at a picnic to Arvon Saturday last. Miss Eva Guck, who has been vis siting relatives and friends in the city, returned to her home at Calu met Monday. Mr. E. S. Andrews, grand master of the I. O. O. F. in Michigan, visited the lodges in tne copper country mis ween.. Miss Grace Mitchell has returned from lower Michigan, where she spent her school vacation with relatives and friends. Highway Commissioner Reynolds Jaad a force of men and several teams engaged this week in repairing the road at the head of the bay. Miss Fabiola Belanger left on Thursday of last week for Boston, Mnco tn riv a visit, to hpr hrothftr. John B. She will be gone about a year. Mrs. A. B. Butz left for Crystal Falls yesterday. She has been engaged as teacher of the first grade in the public school of that city. Mrs. Chas. Heughens. daughter Helen and son Willie, of Lake Lin den, who have been guests at the Thomas Hotel for several weeks, re turned home Monday. Ontonagon has secured a heading and stave factory. The-buildings to be erected will consist of a sawmill 28x82 feet, a stave and heading mill 32x46 feet, and a boiler house 20x40 feet. If you read an advertisement to the effect that a certain firm in some distant city will Bell you an elegant tinted engraving of the battleship Maine for one dollar said engrav ing approved by -the United States government don't bite. They will send you a two-cent revenue stamp, and you'll have nobody but yourself to blame for your stupidity. Attention is called to the D. S. S. & A. railway '8 announcement of the third annual autumn excursion to Detroit, including Toledo and Cleve land, via the D. & C. Co.'s steamers from St. Ignace, which will take f lace Wednesday next, Sept. 7th. t will be the cheapest and best ex cursion of the season and all desir ing a pleasant trip at a very reasonable rate, should not miss this opportunity. A. F. Young, of Escanaba, ar rived in L'Anse Saturday last to enjoy a- few days' trout fishing. Mr. Young has visited (this section annually for the past niae years, during the fishing season. He takes great delight in the sport, and - Notwithstanding his advanced years he is an expert angler and enjoys the distinction of landing some of the largest trout caught in this -vicinity. Mr. Young is a whole souled, jolly old gentleman, and his many friends in L'Anse are always pleased to see him. Charles Shaw, the notorious law breaker and jail bird, has at last committed an offense which will doubtless land him behind tbe bars of the Marquette branch prison. Sunday last he amused himself by wilfully and maliciously smashing all of the furniture ' in his mother s house at the Mission, and causing no end of terror to the family. Mon day he was arrested on complaint of -his mother, and when arraigned in justice court pleaded guilty. He was accordingly bound - over to tne next term of circuit court for sentence, and in default of pro curing bail in the sum of 1500, will remain confined in the county jail until court convenes. . PENINSULA NEWS. Items of Interest Taken From Our Exchanges and Condensed. CONVENTION MUST DECIDE Two Contesting Delegations Chosen at the Marquette County Convention. The Republican county conven tion, for Marquette county, held at Negaunee Wednesday, resulted in a contest, and two delegations, one each for -Shelden and Stephenson, will go to the congressional con vention at Ishpeming- September 8th. v-j r The formal order for tbe muster ing out of the,. Thirty-third and Thifty-fourth regiments, Michigan volunteers, was issued Tuesday Information has been received to the effect that 'the Cregiments would leave Montauk Poiut for Detroit and Camp Eaton Thursday. The boys should have reached Detroit early yesterday morning. Gov. Pingree will undoubtedly readily grant 'all the boys a furlough. The body of Private Charles Evans, of Co. H, of Iron wood, who died at Montauk Point, arrived in Marquette Thursday, enroute home. Private Wm. Evans, of Co.FJIough ton, a brother of the dead soldier, accompanied the body from New York City. The corpse was a mass of purification and thoroughly re volting. It was encased in nothing but a rough pine board box and no attempt had been made to embalm it by the government army officials. The dead soldier .was a son of Coun ty Treasurer Evans, of Gogebic county. . : at Andrew A SERIOUS CHARGE. A.N. Gurry Arrested at Hough ton Tuesday Morning by Sheriff Illld. Monday, John H. Mathes and Stanislaus Krolick, farmers, resid ing west of Baraga, made com plaints against A. N. Gurry, who resides at Houghton, and warrants were issued for his arrest and placed in the hands of Sheriff John H. Hild. The officer went to Houghton on Monday evening's train and returned with the young man in custody the following morn ing. In the complaints Mr. Mathes and Mr. Krolick charged that on June 22d last, Gurry, representing him self as an agent for John Saxton & Co., wholesale grocery house of Chicago, sold them each a bill of goods amounting to $15.44 and $8.75 respectively, which amounts the plaintiffs paid to the young man when the order was taken, but the goods were never received. When arraigned Tuesday morn ing Gurry pleaded not guilty and the date for examination was set for Tuesday next at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Bail was placed in the sum of $300 in each case, which was furnished yesterday. THE HUNTING SEASON. It Opened Sept. 1 Ducks May Nov Be Killed. The hunting season in Michigan opened Thursday, Sept. 1st, and duck shooting may now be indulged in. Sportsmen Bhould remember the following: The season for brook trout closed AugustC31. . Ducks, geese and all wild water fowl may . be killed in the upper peninsula from Sept 1 to Jan. 15. The partridge season in the upper peninsula opens Sept. 15 and closes Nov. 15. Snipe, woodcock, plover and squir rels may not be killed before Oct. 1. The deer law is the same as last year. - The season is from Nov. 8 to Nov. 30, both inclusive, and a license is required, of $25 from non residents ana $1 from those who re side in the state. FieCilprJsa peah yk For $ale. ' r Oow J It", h Jrness, ffrfltHLJ' and UNOiw.Iission!ifAn8e "WEDDING BELLS. Marriage of V. T. Menge and Miss Katherlne Wahl Mon day Afternoon. A very pretty home wedding oc curred at 2 o'clock Monday after noon at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wahl, the contract ing parties being their daughter Katherine, and William T. Menge, of this city. The ceremony was per formed by Rev. H. Gilhngham and only members of the families of the bride and groom, were present. The bride was attended by Miss Selma Menge, sister of the groom, while Andrew Wahl, Jr., brother of the bride acted as groomsman. After the ceremony an elaborate wedding dinner was served, and the happy couple departed on the 4:30 train for Milwaukee. They will also visit Chicago. Both bride and groom are well known throughout the county, the former having conducted millinery parlors in this city for a number of years, and the groom is one of the hustling young -business men of L'Anse. J The Sentinel joins with the rest of the many friends in wishing the happy couple many years of wedded bliss and unlimited prosperity. d. A hrst-cUrss rl for general house work None ther need apply. Inquire at CITY' ITEMS. Miss Hazel Poor, of Duluth, was a guest at Hotel Thomas Sunday. Mrs. Mary Young, of Lake Lin den, is visiting her mother, Mrs. G. F. Beehler. Little Chester Smith, of Lake Linden, is visiting his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Shields. Mrs. E. L. Mason and daughter, Mrs. B. F. Jenkins, of Chicago, visited copper country friends this week. Otto Sengebusch and family have moved into the bouse recently oc cupied by W. D. Manness and family. Miss Ettie Shields returned from Lake Linden Saturday last, after a month's stay with her sister, Mrs. J." A. Smith. Donald Young returned from Lake Linden Wednesday, where he he has been visiting his mother for two week. Miss Nannie Turner succeeded in landing a brook trout weighing three pounds, -at the head of the bay Monday. Teams, men . and -supplies for operating Walter S. Prickett's lum ber camps, south of town, passed through here Monday. About thirty Indians who at tended the campmeeting at Bay field, Wis., last week, returned on the early train Thursday, morning. During the severe thunder storm early last Sunday morning light ning struck the residence of S. T. Harris, but fortunately no serious damage resulted. Mrs. Con. Steinmetz, who has been receiving treatment in St. Mary's hospital at Marquette for tbe past three weeks, is expected home next week. Her health is greatly improved. The call for the Republican con gressional convention for this dis trict will be found on -page four. The convention will be held in the city of Ishpeming Thursday next, September 8th. " At the Republican township caucus in his precinct held in the Town ' Hall Thursday evening, a township committee was chosen for the ensuing two years, consisting of Patrick Cullfney, chairman, Mathias Hansen and H. Selden. A hot game of base ball will be played tomorrow afternoon at Bar aga between the Sidnaw aggrega tion and a picked nine from Baraga. Tbe game will be called at 2:30 o'clock. All lovers of the sport should not fail to attend. Admis sion only 25 cents. A new brand of fakir has been buncoing the guileless farmers in the vicinity of Ishpeming. He sold them the ''latest up-to-date prepara tion" for potato bugs one that beats paris green, .all hollow. Vtry few thought it necessary to open up the boxes before buying, so glad were they to receive a certain cure for the voracious pest. After the fakir had gone the farmers fouud that they had bought little square blocks with instructions ( to "catch the bugs, place them on'the block and hammer them to death. " a TV IB T" PROTECT SETTLERS. Land Commissioner French Urges That Homesteaders Must Not Lose Tax Lands. DUTY OF THE LEGISLATURE That Legislation be Enacted to Protect Honest -Settlers. The fifty-sixth report of the state land office, which has just been issued by Land Commissioner Wm. A. French, deals quite extensively with the subjects of tax, homesteads, su gar beets and forestry, beyond the report of the regular business of the department. In reference to the tax homestead lands the commissioner has con siderable to say about the home stead law and also about the opinion of the supreme court which mater ially affected the title to numerous parcels of land held by the state and homesteaded. He says: "Tbe law was a most beneficial one in its operations. Not only many deserving people were pro vided with homes and the means to earn a livelihood, but every tax payer would have been directly benefitted. "Some of the lands that come within its position can be made into good farms and are rapidly being settled upon by people who are not afraid of work and privation and who would be willing to bear their share of the public burdens. "The decision of the supreme court in tbe case of the Connecticut Mutual life insurance company vs. Eugene B. Wood materially affected the state's title to some of the tax homestead lands and caused wide spread uneasiness among those who had in good faith entered upon the lands and were faithfully carrying out their part of the contract with the state. . "Following the decision of the su preme court the issuing of certifi cates was suspended, but every ef fort was made to reassure the home steaders, as it was not believed by the commissioner that the state would permit any homesteader to lose anything on account of the state's title to the land not being a valid one. After petitioning the gov ernor and both branches of the legislature during the extra session a law was enacted providing that no proceedings could be commenced to dispossess a homesteader until 90 days after the adjournment of the next legislature. "There can be no question as to the duty of the legislature," says Commissioner French. "Every homesteader who entered upon these lands prior to the supreme court's decision did 60 in good faith. They went onto the land to make a home of it, and they are entitled to that privilege. If a homesteader is eject ed he cannot be properly recom pensed. Legislation should prompt ly be enacted making it possible for the state to guarantee e.very home steader upon these lands that at the end of five years' residence a deed will be given and the home secured to those who so richly deserve it. There is no other honorable course for the state to pursue and in the in terest of these people I earnestly urge that you call the attention of the legislature to this matter. " During the past year there has licensed to settlers 61,107 acres of tax homestead lands. Last year there was reverted to the state 3,957 acres of these tax homestead lands. In reference to the beet sugar in dustry in Michigan, which originated when the legislature enacted a bounty law, which operates through ! the land office, the report says in . brief: "For the first time in history, beet sugar will be manufactured in : Michigan- this year. The farmer( j wbo raises beetS'"may have the" I pleasure of drinking the sugar therefrom in his coffee, and know ' that tbe entire process of manufac ' ture was carried on ia his own state. This has been possible for 20 years, I but encouragement was necessary. I A factory costing upwards of $300N- 000 has been erected near Bay City, ' and will take care of this year's crop of 3,500 acres of beets, and'another company of half a' million dollars' capital stock is contemplating the erection of a factory near Benton Harbor. If the Bay City factory proves a success, of which there is no doubt, other factories will un doubtedly be built in different parts of the state next year. "Michigan has sufficient beet su gar land to accommodate a dozen factories of as large a capacity as the Bay City factory. It can, there fore, be seen that the progress in the beet sugar industry this year is but a drop in the bucket compared to what can be and wbat probably will bo done." He says that the enactment of the bounty law was primarily the cause of the erection of the Bay City fac tory and hopes that the law will not be repealed by succeeding legisla tures. The Bay City factory will this year manufacture more than 8,000,000 pounds of sugar and will pay to the growers, the farmers, about $150,000. There are at pres ent nine factories in operation in the United States, which manufac tured last year over 90,000,000 tons of granulated sugar. The Michigan beets are far ahead of those of other states, and every indication is that the beet sugar industry will soon bo a big factor in Michigan. In reference to forestry the com missioner says that Michigan should be. foremost of all states in the union in encouraging forestry, and we find that little, if any, attention is being given to the preservation or restor ation of our forests, which have been a leading factor in producing the wealth of the state. The report cites work that has been done and is going on in other states, and he urges that there be some legislation in the direction of forestry. There are many parcels of state lands not suitable for agriculture that could be convereed into forests. During the year ending June 30, 1898, there was sold by the land de partment 22,371.21 acres; 3,634 acres of swamp land licensed; 61,107 acres of tax homestead land licensed, and there is still held for sale and home stead entry 695,147 acres. The land sold will bring into the state $115, 310; $27,513.75 of which remains un paid. The total receipts of tbe of fice were 141,125.53.( cjhtlead peVcilr for 5 fCnJroll's, Batfca. Call PEQUAMING POINTERS. Special correspondence to Tub Bihtihh, H. M. Tyler was in town on busi ness the fore part nf the week. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Manness, of L'Anse, spent Sunday last in town. All are cordially invited to attend a dancing party at tbe Town Hall tonight. The Misses Maggie Wahl and Selrna Menge, of L'Anse, called on friends in town Tuesday. The steamer Charles Hebard and consorts Anna M. Peterson and Anna Belle Wilson are in port tak ing on lumber cargoes. A Republican caucus was held in the Town Hall Thursday evening. Mai. W. K. Haviland, Erl E. Tracy and John Roth well were elected delegates to the county convention held in Baraga yesterday afternoon. Bob and Eva McGinley Co. gave two excellent entertainments to large audiences here Friday and Saturday evenings of last week. They are the best artists in their line we have seen in years. Bob's execution en the violin was simply superb. After the play Saturday night a social dance was given, music being furnished' fr by Mr. and Mrs. McGinley. All report a pleasant time and expressions of sorrow were made that they could not stay a week. d exceflenfrstock of usjKmejDns, oMges, apples pjp yx'heaor Andrew The T s cigar best 10-cent brand o rket. Call for them. In a Peck of Trouble. Tbe Atlanta Constitution prints the following letter.recently written by a new recruit: "Dear Jane Jane, I'm in trouble. I've done en listed in the army, an' I'm sorry fer it, I wish I wus home. Jane.you will do me this one favor? Write to the war department and tell the presi dent tbe children is down with the measles, an' your old rheumatism is broke outag'in, an' you needs me at home. Will you do this much for me, Jane? Oh, Jane, I'm in deep trouble! Jane my dear Jane if the children ain't got the measles, send them over in tbe Green neigh borhood. The Greens is always got 'em, an' tbe children 'H be shore to katch 'em there.,WiIl you do this fer me, Jane? On, Jane, don't for sake me! Ain't I your husband?" SmokeHeJo Flags cigarj manufactured tnjFalk & Anderson, Baraga. " 1 4 A ceatrf JJ and sS fl puamsju and gsf xmFVftt AN EX-MICHIGAN HAN M. J. Doyle, Formerly of Dick inson County, Arrested at Green Bay. ACCIDENT AT MANISTEE Frank A. Nichols, Filer in a Saw Mill, Instantly Killed. A Lansing- dispatch states that advices have been received of the arrest at Green Bay, Wis., Friday of last week of Michael J. Doyle, who represented Dickinson county in rhe legislature in 1891. It appears that Doylo aud Edward Lefebvre, an' alderman, engaged in a dispute which led to blows. Gilbert Le febvre came to his brother's assist ance, whereupon .the ex-Michigan legislator was jfotfudly thrashod. While smarting ooder his whipping Doyle went to a hardware store and Purchased a revolver,and when next e encountered Gilbort Lefebvre ho ( shot at but missed him. Doylo was arrested and released on $2,000 bail pending his examination. The shoot ing, which created great excitement, is the result of a movement started by Doyle to close the disorderly bouses of the city. Instantly Killed. Frank A. Nichols, a filer in Buck ley & Douglas's mill at Manistee, was struck and killed Monday after noon by the bursting of an emery wheel. He was 41 years old and leaves a family of five children. CITY ITEMS. Attorney Ball, of .Marquette, transacted business in town yester day. Miss Lillian Curl, of Calumet, who has been visiting at the residence of Mrs. Andrew Wahl, returned home yesterday. ' John R. Thomas had the misfor tune to lose one of his cows yester day morning. The animal was sick only a few hours. The infant child" of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson died Wednesday and was buried yesterday. The child had been cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Johnson for soma time, as the mother is ill at the asylum at Newberry. Do You Wish to GainJQesh? Ninety oer cent of oupassengers gain fromjve to Jkfl pounds on a trip to MacSinaBT If you are run down take aupEIite up the lakes. We guaranteerour omitting will benefit you. TJiecost is within the reach of aUafrSond 2c for ijst rated pam- Address, A. A. Schantz, - (: P. A., D. & C. Steamers, The Coast Line, Detroit, Mict lonery go A short, clear, entertaining and valuable lesso.n for amateur weather observers is given in the September Ladies' Home Journal in the form of a series of pictures of clouds, with brief explanatory note. The page is well worth examining and saving, for there is nothing in the artie'e that would not bo understood by anybody, even a child, and a little close study will make one qualified to form better opinions than ever before as to what the weather will be. , . K Notice.. My husband, Simon Raymond, has been missing for twalie years. He was about 5 feetTftjhes in hight, weighed aboutiGO pounds, had rod hair, wore ftf moustach and had gray eyes; aed 48 years.! Address any informalon regard inj him to MKVoIMOM K4TMOND. 'own ship, 6-18m3 Baraga County, Michigan. Alderman John J. Coughlin, ,of Chicago, is said to own one of the four confederate silver half dollars that were coined in the mint at Montgomery. . It is stated that an Italian doctor has discovered ' that there is in the . common pineapple a substance simi lar to pepsin, and that one pine apple is sufficient to digest ten pounds of beef. The only soip which the nindoos of the orthodox type employ is made entirely of vegetable products. But soap Is.little used in India, being almost an unknown luxury with the natives. ForlJflidsf coVpgl to AndrSCfWafi 's. liMaira. How to tell Tomorrow'!? Weather. THE SENTINEL IS UN SSED AS AN ADVERTISING- MEDIUM