THE MINING GAZETTE (under various names) of Houghton County, Michigan Copyright © 1999 by Dick and June Ross. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Apr 2, 1874 At the last meeting of the Houghton Village Board the resignation of Mr. Wm. HARRIS was accepted, and Mr. T.W. EDWARDS elected to fill vacancy. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Apr 9, 1874 Railroad accident: Last Wednesday evening as the wood train on the Mineral Range RR was backing out from the Osceola mine branch, a brakeman on the rear car, named Roderick ANDERSON, jumped from the train to turn the switch, and striking the lever, was thrown back under the wheels Master John DELZELL, of Lake county, has received the appointment to West Point recently offered by our member of Congress to the boys residing in the Ninth District. Died: At Houghton, Apr 3, 1874, Emma I., wife of Reb J.R. BARNARD, rector of Trinity Episcopal church in the 29th year of her age. Married: On Saturday, Apr 4, 1874, by Rev J. FRAZER, Mr. Wm. HITCHINGS to Miss Mary A. MARTIN; all of Houghton. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Apr 16, 1874 Mr. James PATOR, agent of the Portage Lake Improvement Company, is getting dredges ready and making other preparations to work on the eastern approach to Portage Lake as soon as navigation opens. Mr. J. Dwight PALMER, of Marquette, has succeeded one A. P. HIEBOLD, who resided at the Soo, as revenue agent on Lake Superior. Mr. PALMER will probably surprise his friends if he don't serve the government efficiently. Letter from Arkansas: Hot Springs, Ark, Apr 5, 1874, I have to inform you that Wm. FECHBEIMER, of this place, ex-sheriff of Houghton County, Mich. and for some years past a resident of Hot Springs, died this morning of apoplexy..................His wife and children are in Cincinnati, 0., where he had sent his children to school........... I would say that Mrs. SHELDEN and myself are receiving great benefit from the use of the spring water. We walk daily three miles, and we have climbed to the top of one of the highest mountains here. Yours, R. SHELDEN Circuit Court: James RAMSAY, John S. MORRISON, Richard B. MARCHAM, James HOATSON and Allan McINTYRE were admitted to become citizens of the USA. Robert DOBBIE, Ludwig WOLF, Frederick MACKENZIE and Wm. DANIELL were admitted to become citizens of the United States. Willard BRAMAN, the young man who was charged with writing a threatening letter to Charles EDWARDS for the purpose of extorting money, was found guilty in the Circuit Court last Tuesday. Mr. T. L. CHADBOURNE represented the people. Messrs. CHANDLER & GRANT defended. We understand the case is to be taken to the Supreme Court. Mr. R. H. BRELAFORD, County Clerk, has forwarded to the several Supervisors the necessary blanks to aid them in the work of taking the regular State decennial census. A lively spring business is indicated in and about the wagon and carriage shops of Chris. BROEMER, where a busy lot of men are employed on new work and refitting and painting numberless vehicles, which will soon be needed upon our roads. Mrs. Mary TAFT, of Elk Point, Dakota Territory, called at the World's Dispensary, Aug 19, 1873, to acknowledge a debt of gratitude due Dr. PIERCE, having been entirely cured of Catarrh. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Apr 23, 1874 Mr. Edward SALES, of Ontonagon, in connection with Mr. W. D. WILLIAMS and other gentlemen at Marquette, has entered a body of land on the eastern prolongation of the presumed course of the Island (Isle Royale) mine conglomerate, and it is the intention to do a certain amount of exploring the coming season.............. During the years 1872-3 a system of exploration for copper was carried on under the guidance of Mr. S.W. HILL, on land owned by Mr. Thos. F. MASON, resulting in the discovery of a belt of conglomerate in town 64, range 37............. The late fire at Ishpeming destroyed 22 buildings, which together with other property, involved a loss of something over $125,000, with an insurance not exceeding 25 percent of the amount. Negaunee lost five buildings the same evening by fire. There is a report that the fires in both places were the work of incendiaries, for the purpose of plunder. ...............Mark MATHERS, formerly of Hancock, was burned out at Ishpeming, and his wife died from the effects of excitement incident to the occasion. Some one sends us a copy of the San Francisco Chronicle containing an account of a brutal prize fight between a couple of bruisers named respectively HOGAN and TREVILLIAN. The winner of the encounter, James TREVILLIAN, an Englishman, used to work at the Pewabic mine. Spring Millinery: Mrs. John PRYOR, in Mrs. STROBEL'S building, Houghton, has the latest styles of ladies' hat and bonnets. Also agency for Madame Demorests patterns. Birth: At the Albany and Boston mine, on the 13th inst., at the residence of R. R. GOODELL, Mrs. J.C. RODGERS, of a daughter. Died: At L'Anse, on the 19th inst., Mrs. N. A., wife of Wm. H. HENDRICK, aged 41 years and 10 months. Probate Order: .......in the village of Houghton , on Saturday, the 18th of April, 1874, in the matter of the estate of Richard STOPPERT... .. administratrix, Theresa STOPPERT. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, May 7, 1874 Probate Order: 4 May 1874 In the matter of the estate of James W. Kila R. Ambrose P. and Charles H. OLDS, miners. On reading and filing the petition, duly verified, of Elizabeth A. OLDS, guardian of said minors.................. Probate Court: 4 May 1874 Estate of George SAMPSON, deceased.... Susan SAMPSON, widow of deceased, praying that she be appointed administratrix. Mr. S. D. NORTH, already at the head of three mercantile firms in this county, has formed a co-partnership with a gentleman named GARDNER for the purpose of carrying on a general merchandise business at the Island mine, Isle Royale. L'Anse: Mr. James TELFER has secured a patent for attaching safely a lamp to a sewing machine. A Determined Suicide: A man name Richard RETELLICK drowned himself in a pool of water not more than a foot deep, last Friday night, on the Calumet location. No cause is assigned for the insane act. Mr. H. K. COLE, who is going to take charge of the office work at the Island mine, Isle Royale, is in the district awaiting transportation to his field of labor. Declined the Honor: Mr. R. UREN, who was elected supervisor of Franklin township at the last spring election, failed to qualify, and the town board has appointed Dr. I. M. RHODES in his place. The examination of CORNWALL and SLATER, before Justice REES, charged with being accomplices of MCGUI RE, the bogus Calumet & Hecla draft scamp, was concluded Wednesday. On account of a lack of evidence CORNWALL was discharged. SLATER was bound over, in the sum of $2500, to appear before the next term of the Circuit Court. Mr. Louis BRUSON is a respectable, hard-working man, and resides at Calumet. Last Saturday night, about 11 o'clock, while returning, along the line of the Mineral Range railroad, to his home from the Osceola mine, where he had been spending the evening in the company of a lady friend, he was waylaid by two masked desperadoes, who demanded his money........ he handed over to them $130 in money........... Mr. John WIEDENHOOFER has purchased the Sauer lots on Reservation street, and intends erecting thereon a large building. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, May 14, 1874 Mr. James CARSON and Mr. Thos. W. BUZZO, pioneers in the copper region up here, are now carrying on an establishment known as the "Galena smelting works" situated on the Jordan river, a few miles from Salt Lake City..............Capt. Thos. H. LOW, also a well-known Lake Superior man, is the general manager of the works, and is accredited with making certain improvements in connection with the cupola furnaces in use that are valuable.................. .....A ten years' lease of the lake end of Quincy street was granted to Mr. John T. MARTIN, for ferry purposes, at an annual rental of five dollars............. Obituary: Died, on Apr 28th, 1874, at the New York mine, Ishpeming, Mich., Captain Solomon CUNDAY, aged 61 years, 2 months and 10 days. He had been suffering from the lung disease for a year past He was an old settler among the mines of Lake Superior, having emigrated from Hazel Green, Wisconsin, to Eagle River, Mich., 22 years ago, at which place he has a brother and sister living................... In an obituary in the Iron Home, on Captain Solomon CUNDAY, who died at Ishpeming, Apr 28th, occurs an historical error..........the vein known as the "Allouez conglomerate" was discovered in June 1858 by Edwin J. HULBERT and William H. STEVENS, who had in their party of explorers at that time Amos H. SCOTT and Charles MELLOW. Capt Cunday was selected by Mr. HULBERT as mining captain.............A. P. THOMAS, is the present superintendent Mr. J. H. THOMAS, superintendent of the Mineral Range telegraph company, has accepted the appointment of overseer of the Houghton office of the Northwestern telegraph line. This new arrangement goes into effect the 15th inst. Mr. THOMAS will retain his position on the Mineral Range line. Among our local notices will be found the advertisement of Mr. W.J. HAMBLY, which notifies the public that he is now prepared to act as public auctioneer in this county. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, May 21, 1874 Mr. Christ. HAUG, an artisan who enjoys an excellent reputation as a manufacturer of silver and gold ware, has opened an establishment in this place in the building formerly occupied by DALLMEYER, the tobacconist. His specialty is making native silver rings, mounting pipes, etc. Mr. Haug will soon have in his employ a first-class watch repairer. Melancholy Case of Drowning: Last Saturday night, while Mr. Harry C. WILCOX, in the employ of the M.H. & O.R.R., was endeavoring to catch a line thrown to him on the end of the merchandise dock at L'Anse, from the steamer Winslow, he lost his balance and tumbled into the bay, and was drowned before assistance reached him. Search has been made for the body, but so far it has not been recovered. The deceased was a son of Mr. E. N. WILCOX, of Detroit, and was well thought of in the community he resided. He leaves a wife, to whom he was married but a few months ago. The first steamer - Superior, Capt. W.S. PEASE- entered the port of Sault St. Marie in 1827. It was eight years after that date before another boat ventured near the place. Miss Nellie GRANT is to be married at the presidential mansion, Washington, today. This will be sad news to the bachelor proprietor of the Marquette Journal. The first lease issued by the Federal government to work a mining claim on Lake Superior is owned by the Hon. John HARMON, Detroit. Two weeks ago there appeared in these columns an account of the death by suicide, at CaIumet, of Richard RETALLICK. The amended verdict of the jury was "Death by accidental drowning." The steamer Metropolis, on her last trip to Isle Royale, had on board some 400 people who have gone over there to work in the interest of the Island mine. The majority of the laborers were Swedes. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, May 28, 1874 Married: In Detroit, Monday, May 18, at St. Ann's church, by the Rev. Father ANCIOUX, Miss Mary R. DESROCHERS, of Houghton, to Mr. Charles I. RULO, of Detroit. Died: At Houghton, May 27, Emma C, infant daughter of the Rev J.H. BARNARD. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, June 4, 1874 ........the people hang upon the dulcet strains turned out by a first class professional organ-grinder, and the lavish manner they bestow shekels for his difficult and masterly performance. Don Salvina SASAGO, the skilled musician who has been playing around here for some days, informs us that he studied his instrument night and day for some eight years before he felt competent to appear in public. Joseph MARTIN and a man named SIMMOCA were the persons who found the body of young WILCOX, drowned some time ago. L'Anse: Messrs. D. D. HENDRICK and Alfred GUCK have commenced manufacturing cigars. This makes two industries of the kind in L'Anse. Last Monday morning a young man named GARRANT, while engaged in loading lumber on a scow at Morales and Olds saw mill, fell into the lake and was drowned. His body was recovered a short time afterward, and was taken to friends at Hurontown. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, June 11, 1874 Last season Mr. SHAFER, of Baraga, raised 787 bushels of potatoes on one and three-quarter acres of land. M. S. gives it as his opinion that land properly cleared and cared for in this country can be made to yield at least 600 bushels of potatoes to the acre. Marquette county's three cities- Ishpeming, Negaunee and Marquette - show a population of over 12,000. Death: at his residence in Houghton, on the morning of June 5th, of bronchitis, Alexander POPE, aged 39 years and 11 months............he was a resident here for over fourteen years........On Sunday last his remains were followed to the grave by representatives from all the Masonic lodges in the county, the firemen of Hancock and Houghton, besides a large number of other sorrowing friends. Died: At Houghton, Thursday, June 4th, Harriet Eliza, wife of Myron GLAZIER, aged 42 years. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, June 18, 1874 The Company will Have Order: Last Sunday David GOGGIN acted in a boisterous manner and refused to pay his fare, when he was requested by the conductor to leave the cars. This he refused to do. While putting him off the train, John CASTIGAN, Philip SULLIVAN, and John HARRINGTON came to the rescue. A row ensued, in which two of the attaches of the road received some slight injuries. Goggin was brought before Justice FINN last Monday and fined $25 and costs. On Tuesday last HARRINGTON, SULLIVAN and COSTIGAN were arrested and gave bail. A decree was issued from the United States Court, Detroit, June 4th, proclaiming W.H. STREETER, late banker of Hancock, a bankrupt. Capt Thos. HOATSON, underground superintendent of the Calumet & Hecla mine, and wife, left this port last Monday, en route for Scotland. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, June 25, 1874 Phoenix items: On Friday and Saturday, June 19 & 20, Brother W. CHAMPION, D.D.G.W.C.T, assisted by Fro. J. PENHALLIGAN and others of the Union Temple of Honor, Calumet, organized the Eureka Temple, at Phoenix, and installed the following officers for the ensuing term: James HOSKING, W.C.T.; Nathaniel TRENGOVE, W.V.T.; John H. RULE, W.R.; Alfred TAMBLYN, W.U.; John TEZZEY, W.D.U.; John MCPHEE, W.F.R.; Henry CURTISS, W.G.; Edwin EDWARDS, W.S.; James POLKINGHORN, Treas; Richard ROGERS, W.C; John A. RULE, L.D.G.W.C.T. Obituary: Died, of an acute infection of the throat, at the Calumet & Hecla mine, Houghton county, Mich., June 20, 1874, Dr. M. D. SENTER. Dr. Senter was born June 30, 1824, so that he lacked ten days of being fifty years old at the time of his death. Twenty-three years ago he settled in the Keweenaw Point district, where he commenced the practice of medicine, and laid the foundation for professional eminence, which entitled him in after life to rank among the best physicians in the land.........He leaves an interesting family of six children, who are now indeed orphans, their mother having died some months ago. Last Sunday Dr. SENTER's remains were taken to Eagle River and buried. File contributed for use in Houghton Co. USGenWeb Archives by Dick and June Ross. jross@eee.org