BURNETT COUNTY
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2016 VOL. 54 NO. 42 www.burnettcountysentinel.com $1.00
HIT-AND-RUN: Burnett County Sheriff’s Department seeks assistance. P2
Still trying to disprove fiction Grantsburg diver still looking for train wreck truth BY TODD BECKMANN SENTINEL
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Nuisance bears in Grantsburg, like this sow, have been captured.
Bears removed from village BY STEVE BRIGGS
GRANTSBURG—Since voting and vowing on June 13 to quickly address the bear problem on the village’s north side, the Grantsburg Village Board has been making good on its promise. As of Tuesday, June 28, nine bears including boars, sows, cubs and yearlings have been removed from the village by a wildlife tech working out of the USDA’s Wildlife Services office in Rhinelander. USDA Assistant District Supervisor David Ruid of the
Rhinelander office said a wildlife tech still has two traps in place to catch another yearling that was raised in the woods within or near Grantsburg, and sees the village as its home. Reports are that it walks through the village in daylight and appears to have little or no fear of humans. The village attempted to trap bears last fall, but it began late and got no results. That was also true for a plan allowing one or two well-trained shooters to take
GRANTSBURG—If you don’t see or hear a fat lady singing, it ain’t over. That’s the news from Grantsburg’s Karl Anderson regarding the fate of the Legend of the Lost Train in Devils Lake, a train which supposedly went off the tracks and into Devils Lake near Pine City, MN in the 1870s. Legend has it there was a heavy rain that night, people heard the train whistle, but the train never made it to town. Anderson had heard enough of the tale to pique his interest and he and his team dove the lake a few years ago. “What they say happened is that a landslide took the track down and the train went into the lake,” he related. “We found railroad track, we found a logbook, and a lantern — which means nothing in and of itself.” Some say Anderson is on a fool’s errand. “Anyone who is an old-timer in Pine City
brings it up,” he admitted. “There are two property owners on that lake — one is adamant the train was removed after it happened and tells us we’re wasting our time, but the other person is all excited.” Like a hunger that can’t be sated, in March Anderson brought in a magnetometer to do a reading of the lake. “A professional did read our findings, but the project hasn’t proceeded the way we thought,” Anderson remarked. That could have been the end of the line (no pun intended), but fate intervened. Anderson said one of his parts guys was in the shop and they started talking about the train and the grid from the magnetometer. “He told me he went to college to be a cartographer (map reader) and spent 10 years reading maps just like the one we had,” he pointed out. “He looked at the grid and said ‘The train is there.’” Anderson said that got his attention. “‘You don’t want to look at the blues — you want to look at the reds,’ is what he told me SEE WRECK, PAGE 6
SEE BEARS, PAGE 7
Edna Schroeder: A history of community service WEBSTER—By all accounts, soon-to-be centenarian Edna Schroeder (August 31) is an amazing woman. The Illinois pioneer who moved to Burnett County in 1949 is Webster’s July 4th Parade Grand Marshall. That’s not the only honor she’s collected over the 40 years she served the community as a hard-working volunteer.
At 89 years of age, she retired in 1989 after 27 years of serving the Burnett County Elderly and Disabled Transportation Program. As the first volunteer, she drove more than 106,937 miles and put 400,000 miles on two engines of her favorite vehicle, a 1979 Ford LTD. “I loved that car. SEE SCHROEDER, PAGE 7
A magnetometric reading of Devils Lake.
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