1890-02-28; Clare Democrat and Press

              ESTABLISHED: 9SSS5&E3&*4'
CLARE, MICE, FRIDAY; FEBRUARY 28,1890.
NEW SERIES NO. 31
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SALE!
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Two Logging Trains Qoliide on the
North Branch of the F. & P. M.
Railroad, Near Lake Station, with Frightful
Results.
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Saturday, March 1st.
The following is a list of the persons whose purchase being tl
FIFTH of a like amount, have had their money returned to
them and received their goods FREE OF CHARG-K.   ,
Any purchaser during this sale is at liberty to examine our bop]
if in doubt of fair treatment.     ,
Two Men Killed and the Engine and Qa-
„ boose Rendered a Complete Wreck
—The Inquest and Full
Particulars.
About 4 o'clock last Sunday afternoon
A terrible accident occurred on the North
Branch of the Flint & Pere Marquette
railroad, in the vicinity of Lake Static?
which,is the most frightful in'the rai
road history of Clare county. Two trains
had been loaded on that branch during
the day, each composed of a long line of
flat cars heavily loaded with logs, and
were pulling out lor the main line. One
train was from Haley <fc Covert's camp
and the?.'other from Eddy, Ayery &
'Eddy's,- cQne-preceeded the- other about.
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The., .Saginaw "Courier-Herald inter-,
ewed a gentleman who was present, at
the inquest and-published the following
Clare.
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Mrs. I. p. Smith,
Mrs, Jno. Giberson,
Mrs. Ella. Ramey,
Miss Etta May,
Miss Allie Evans,
Johnnie Trowbridge,
Mrs. C. N. Goddenow,
Chas. Chase, < '"
Mrs. A> J. Doherty,
Mrs. Wm. Goodman, Sr."
Mrs. Jas. Louch.
'Mrs. E. L.Pratt,
Mrs. Ed. A. White,
Martin Lawrence,
"Mri. Lizzie Sutherland,
Mrs. John driver, 2,
, Mrs. J. H. Galliver,
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Wm. Boswell, Clare.
Emily Converse,
Mrs. Cyrus Babcock,
Vera Smith,
Eva Harris,
Mrs. Wm. Goodman,
Mrs. E. H. DeVoght,
George Sexsmith,
Verna Feighner,
Cora Boswell, 2,      »
W% J. Jennings,.     .;
Mrs. JVC. Rockafelldw
Myrtie Koontz,
Wm. Morden,
Mrs.- D. J. Lossing,
Helen Lewis,
.Mrs. Julius Schaeffer,
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Mrs. Chas. H. Clark,   Clar*
- Mrs. Ed. Miller,
Mrs. D.. Grouse, "
Mrs. A^lonsea, "
Jennie VanConant '"
Horace Joiner,
Wm. Boswell,
Carrie Rockafellow,
Mrs. Jno, Sexsmith,
Jno: Lusk,
Mrs. J. H. Wilson,
A. Smith.
J. W/UpdegrafT,
Miss Lulu Cross,.
Mrs. Otto, Hatton.    ,
Miss Houghton, Dover.'
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says:,. The first, train ..reached a heavy
grade within sight of theniain line safe-
If,Jbut atthe'summit* a!-coupling broke
and.the rear section ran back.-' In the "caboose were seated Janies A. Sfcowits and
John Bordner, both of. -whom it is
supposed were engaged, "in ^conversation
arid in-ignorance of Impending danger.
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top biTthe opposite bill.; "Engineer $eid
erstkdt and his fireman grasped; the aw -
fttl situation" and with a, cry of horror
leaped fro.mvthe cab to the. ground.   Ah-
jfaetant later, "with 8 r crash which awoke
$n«echo for miles around, locomotive No.
plunged into and then o'vef the caboose,
ring; up like' a fractious horse, and
eh turning halfrway round fellInto the
Itqhi a partial wreck.   The caboose was
|she-4< into kindling".wood, scarce &
•it\Vdifcset;; square; remaining, intact
..jjhaji all, how-fever, wa*s the fateof,
^d&i^^yts'of thes sarfboth men beingj
"igled "beyond i^cognitioh.    Stowits:
foan^tjiiaer imivont end of Jthe.en^
Penoii and Shears.
Lenten season.
Sickness is abating.
Village election March 10th.
Business quiet for the past week.
Rev. Fr» Mahar, of Midland, was in
Clare Monday.
-   See notices of election and registration
in another column.
House and four lots for sale. Enquire
at Elden's Bazaar.
' Deputy-sheriff Beeman^ of Evart, was
in Clare last Saturday.
Mrs. J. R. Goodman, of Loomis, »vas a
visitor at Clare Tuesday.
Deputy-sheriff Dan Miller was down
from Harrison Wednesday. "
Miss Lizzie Hales, of East Saginaw, is
visiting friends in Vernon.
*. Sleighing this winter is about as un-
^sertain as the Irishman's flea.
C. W. Ferry made a trip to Mt.Pleasant
and returned Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Booth, - of Marion,
visited friends in Clare oyer Sunday.
'Mrs. Sam'I Levington visited   with'
friends at East Saginaw over Sunday;
. The interlocking switches at the F. &
P. -M. and.T. & A.:A. Crossing are now in
use, -. , .    • %
Miss Etta  Wilson,-who   is teaching
school near Mt, Pleasant, visited at home
over, Sunday. ,
Railroads are ..doing/a big business.
Passenger traffic Is'large* and more freight
is being moved than ever before. ;   *
Father Mahar, of Midland, will say
mass at the &. K. R,, hall, Clare, at 10
o'clock a. m., Moriday;,\March 3rd.
" Skating on the creek|and lake.^was
go.od last Saturday iraii^lpoung America
was on; deck to improve the opportuhity4
Master Floyd Kane is nbw agent for
VERY COOL INDEED.
isfaction\to his numerous customers.
. Joe Stapleton has been haiidllngv the
^Harrison branch passenger train during
conductor Cogswell's absence in a man*
ner creditable to a veteran railroader,
Mr. and Mrs.' Arthur Potter camecdown
from Owens, Missaukee county^ and visit-1 . ? ., i-r .v-
ed with the latter's parents* Mr. arid Mrs;.   --■■---■
A. W. Mclntyre, in Clare, oyer Sunday^;
L, E. Harris, of Lenawee county, re
turned home Monday after a visit of sev-
:eral days1 duration in this vieinity, the
X«fe§t of iiis ebtisiri, Mrs. Alvina Russell,
Wbfrk got a little slack the first of the
A Topw That Must be Treated
Without Heated Argument,
Lemonade,   Mint Juleps, Ice Gream  and
Kindred Luxuries Dependant on Supplies* From the. Territory Wherein:
King Winter Reigns—he Felds of ,
Northern Michigan. *
What coal is to winter.season-, so is ice*
to the months of -midsummer!, >Both are
luxuries, yet so near to common hu-'
nianifcv\ so essential "to comfort they are,
as.tobe classed in' the iiousewife's category as necessities.^        • ; -
In the good old days' of by-gone yeara
people have given little thought to -the
question of a supply of ape, natui-e haying-,
Ijeen generous in $hh regard and Jack
Frpst-wasalWayS biigy \yhen his time for
work1 came, -.This season, however, .all
signshave^iied,,eyentojfcheground'iog -»
and his shadoWv'and the weeks,-warm and!-,
comfortable, have ■J worn .J'away without ,
even touching the .edges--pt rivers and1'
lakes Kvjth'f^ost> .Afc^ Cdlumbhs, fromi:v
which'point .the. larger,.cities--of .phia  ,
• usually:draw- it supplyithe crop has^failed   ■'
•for the-first' time. sjEijce "^jpolumbife. dis- ■
covered   America^'Chicago and* great
iientecs pt the east .%are' also .without ice, '
to a large extent, and tnehengaged in'the,
buslnefes have ha;d.their thinkiag caps on
sometime, trying'to  solve the. problem,
which confronted them.?*:' *   ;;, '
. In the greac- crisis "Noi*th'»Michigan
came nobly to the froht.   The Flint &'.
Pere'Marquette Railroad fp6,mpanyVa» ;
promptly in the field- to "-supply: jbdir
viduals. and cities with ice,.and\oper-,
ations were established in Clare county,
tori tlie chains of beautiful- lakes -wbleli.';
abpund.theTre.   The;Tdiedo,:Ann Arbor $»
^orjfch.Miphigan-an^ (he,Girrah;dRHp'id^*'i
Indiana'Rtailr^ad;Coinpan3tes' alsd'be^aa' '
moyiiiii=ipe southwardi; to -supply -the de-
Pere Marquette ^ftafIroad Company. are  .
embraced '^3» iienitory 10 mijes ih leiigtb.
■arid one m*iTe*wjde on tlie'Harrison'braach^.;"
5u(ld, Arnold, Loh^ and other lake^, the,^
«nrface8of which are covered/ with' ,exr \
move to our new quarters, one
door north of the Postoffice, Tuesday
and Wednesday, March 4 and 5,
and after that date will be glad
to see our many customers.
YOURS RESPECTFULLY,
S. C. Kirkbride.
Week- aridiwe put a couple^.the. boys at <*lleiit ic* *'om 6 t0.10***« tb4ck,liave  ..
:wdr^iashlhg ,the office windows.   We Peen the ?cene <* ***** operations dux-,
tim*a^n^rei^
OLD QOODS qqd tflQtf PAIGES.
The present hard times and scarcity of money is the reason of people demanding the best
; • of goods at the very lowest possible prices.   I realize this fact and am determined
-    to meet their wants, as far as first-class Groceries, at "live and let live" prices,
....  ; are concerned.
Having recently purchased the interest of my partner '(DeFoe), I have just added a full
- - -   line of all Staple and Fancy Groceries and will meet any prices offered by any
■ dealers in Northern Michigan and will go them one better.
Gome and See Me.   I Will Not Be Undersold.
J.
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and his legs broken. The middle portion
of his body was not bruised, and strange
to say his gold watch did not even stop.
His companion met a frightful death, he
being pinned to the earth by the fire-box
of the locomotive which roasted the flesh
fr6m head to feet. He could not be dag
out until % o'clock Monday morning, 10
hours after the accident occurred.
Stowits was in the employ of Haley &
Covert as bookkeeper.   He was a resident of Midland county, his relatives living on a farm three miles from the city.
He has a widowed mother, two brothers
and two sisters, one of the latter being
Mrs. Nelson  Dean.    James graduat
with   honor  from  the   Midland  Hi
School last spring, and had since
working to secure means with which to
enter college.    He was a remarkably
bright young man with hosts of friends
all of whom received news of his
death with deep sorrow.*
Of Bordner little is known.  He
been working in the woods until a few
days ago, when he laid off.    A letter
found in his valise indicated he lived at
Bad Axe.
A sad feature of the terrible affair is
that Conductor Cosgroye, finding the two
men in the caboose after leaying camp,
warned them they were riding in violation of rules of the company and instructed them to leave the train at the ne:
Switch, a log train being a danger©
vehicle of transportation.   They did
do so, and shortly afterward the acci
occurred.
An inquest was held before Justice
Samuel H. Graham at Lake Monday, and
after listening to the testimony of a
number of witnesses the jury returned a
verdict to the effect that the men came
to their death by being run over by the
cars, while riding in disobedience to the
orders .of the conductor of the train.
The remains of Stowits were taken to
Midland for interment and Bordner was
buried at Farwell.
The American Express Company will
have an auction sale of. unclaimed packages (at East Saginaw, on Wednesday,
March-12th, at 10 o'clock a. m., and the
following is a list of the people in this
vicinity *wiio are down on the list as owning packages to be sold :
Glake—Agent, A. Boswell, G. C. Calkins, A. L. Guslin, Geo. C. Gale, D. S. Patterson, O. H. Robinson, L. Frederick.
Farweix—James E. Austin, W. Cher-
ryman, T. Harris, H. W. Roys, James
Saxton.
Harrison—John Cullen, W.H. Norton-,
J. H. Smith, John Dion, F. Rice.
MereditHt—A. Allen, O. Brobant, Geo.
DeWats, Wm. McPherson, Frank Payne,
W.J. Scott.    .
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Peter Callam informs our reporter of
the death of his little grandchild, aged 10
months, youngest daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Murdoch, who reside at Bayfield, Wis., the funeral occurring* Sunday,
the 16th inst. '";%
F. D. Patter£on & Co's logging operations in the north part of this county are
humming.   They don't appear to  care
much whether it snows cr not,  although
a generous  quantity of   the beautiful
would be duly appreciated.
Will  Tasker  couldn't. do   the  extra
mount of train dispatching and ticket,
selling at the union depot without an as-
tant during the present- rush of business.   A gentlemanly young fellow by
the name of Ball is helping him out.
Sylvester Gilmore started to drive his
team upon Mud Lake Tuesday morning
.wj after a load of ice.   The horses broke
f through near the shore and after flounder-
Y$[a  ing around in the mud and water for
about half an hour they were rescued.
Sam Levington, superintendent of the
Harrison branch, is generally pretty gay
and kittenish; but the large amount of
business and long hours now inflicted
upon him makes his duties arduous and
his countenance expressive of care-worn.
Clare presented rather a patriotic ap-
earance last Saturday.    The  national
mblem floated from the republican pole
ar the G. A. R. hall, also from the flag-
staffs on the school house and Tatman &
Schilling's grocery store—the occasion
being Washington's birthday.
Jay Rogers has purchased Wm. Giber-
lent
son's matched team of mustangs and uses
them on his dray «vagon in place of the
white horse. They are a pretty team,
and with new harness, make a dashing
appearance. The dray business must be
a paying one in Clare, as Rogers now has
four horses in the work.
Alfred Shauger, aged about 22 years/
was terribly injured by a log rolling on
bis leg at Whitney & Batchelor's camp.
He was brought down on the Monday
morning train and sent to St. Maiy's hospital at East Saginaw. Shauger did not
have medical attendance until he reached
the hospital, and it is now feared that his
leg will have to be amputated.
week have been taken' from these points.
The Harrison branch, even in the palmiest of log-hauling days, never witnessed
such a season of activity and prosperity,
Nearly 500 men have been given employ-  -
ment, wages ranging from $1 to'$2.25 per    -
day.   W, F. Potter, assistant superintendent of the Flint & Pere Marquette, has'
been stationed at Harrison and has scarce
bad time to eat or sleep,  so great hss
-been the pressure  of moving trains and
keeping the main line and branches free
and uninterrupted.   Officials of the Lake
Shore & Michigan   Southern Railroad   .
have also been stationed at Harrison, Hying in their private cars, and have had
several large crews and three locomotives
in service   harvesting and moving the
cold crop.   Log hauling has been almost <*-
wholly suspended, so great has been the
demand for  engines  and "that's 'nice
train,'' applied,to almost every moving
freight, would he a correct assumption^
"It's an ill wind that blows nobody-
good" holds true in connection with the-
ice business.   The scarcity in sontberst
points of the adjunct to  an  enjoyable-
lemonade has built up a 'vast industry m^
this section and will be the means of distributing many thousands of-dollars Ib;.-.
wages and the payment of freight bills. .
F. A. Wilson, of Harrison, is cutting
and shipping from Budd LaKe% to Cincinnati and Chillicothe parties, and Has or- •
ders for 600 cars from J. F. Winkler and:
the Saginaw Ice Company.   Robert De-T
drich Is also filling his large ice houses afr
that point; the Lake Shore ;&Michigan*
Southern Eailroad Company is shipping
to stations on their line and several Cincinnati firms: are storing in hastily con- •
structed but substantial  .bjuiidings for •
shipment when the great rush is over,-
At Crooked Lake. Barker & DwigMr ©£
Toledo, are erecting arid filling ice houses--
for storage, and the same firm is shippings
from Lake George oyer the Toledo, Ann-
Arbor  & 'North Michigan.   Hubbell &V
Crawford, of Miiford, are  cutting and?
shipping at Lake for themselves and th€?
Cincinnati Ice Company.   At FarweH4 a
firm is engaged cutting for Middleton, O.
parties, and at Moon Lake, north of Lakea
J. C. Caskey began  operations Monday
on an order for 1,€00 cars for Cincinnati
Dr. Vaughn, the veterinary surgeon of delivery.   The Columbus, Hocking Tal-
Mfc. Pleasant preformed a difficult and I ley & Toledo, Bailroad Company is also
remarkable surgical operation in Clare
last Saturday upon a mule belonging to
Thomas Pickard, cutting off about six
inches from .the animal's tongue. It had
become frozen, gangrene set in and
muleship was in good trim to climb
golden stairs, though now he is gett
along finely without any apparent/inconvenience.
largely interested in Clare county, and
are'fUliBg every car that can be hauled
there.    .
At Cranberry Lake, a few miles north
Jbl Harrison, there is a small city on the
p, a blacksmith shop, barber shop and
er evidences  of civilizdfeion   haying
established among the men.—St
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