The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-05
MICHIGAN NEWS.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.

LIE DcuoH NoNelty Machine works, which
was Incorporated four years ago, with 300 900
capital, has gone up the spout.
CASUALTIES.
A FIRE at Grass Lake last week DESTROYED
were seven horses and large stock of hay and
grain. Loss over $4,000 insurance, "a, 900.
JOHN l.. YoNs, a young man employed at
Nestor's camp, near East Saginaw, was acct
dentally killed, few days ago, by falling
tree. Deceased was about % years of age.
ALEXANDER CAMERON, of Harrisville, was re-
Gently struck on the head while skidding logs,
and died in five minutes.
Personal.
SPENCER b. HEATH, the express messenger
who 80 courageously fought the two robbers on
the Michigan Central railroad last summer
is now messenger ON the Detroit and Milwaukee,
PHno PARSONS has been reelected President
of the Detroit Board of Trade
CRIME.
coLoRED drayman of Kalamazoo was ar
rested recently on the charge of cohabiting
with his own daughter. Not being able to fur
nish bail, he was put in Jail for safe keeping
DEATHS.
DANIEL Cross, the oldest settler in Washte-
nav county, died few days since at Ypsilanti.
Mr.. Cross located at Ypsilanti in 1923.
LEGAT.
In the Michigan Supreme Court, in the case
Of John W. Hulin, anew trial has been granted.
Hulin was convicted of embezzlement while
clerk of the prison. and is serving sentence.
ROBERT Cook has recovered judgment in the
Circuit Court at Grand Rapids aga inst the De-
troit and Milwaukee railroad for So 900 for in
juries received while in the employ of the road
The Supreme Court of the United States, at
Washington, has decided that State has the
right TO tax Immigrant lands while they are still
in possession of the railroad companies. A
test case was taken to the tribunal from Mich
gan. More than 100000 are involved in this
uestion in this State alone.
POLITICAL.
w. s. SEAToN has been confirmed by the SEN
ate as Postmaster at Jackson.
MISCELLANEOUS.
BILL has been introduced in the Legisla-
tire appropriating $4,000 for monument to
Pere Marquette, the pioneer missionary ex-
plorer of the Northwest. The site of the monu-
ment is to be at Ludington, where Father Mar
quette died and was buried. consider
able number of members regard Mackinaw
az the more tit place, that being the point where
the first mission was established in all this re-
gion.
(,TT 10 tod
az Bishop Of Western Michigan, at st. Marks
Church, Grand Rapids, few days ago. About
fifty clergymen and seven Bishops were present.
Among the audience, which filed every part of
the church, prominent representatives from all
the Western cities were to be seen. Bishop
Gillespie will at once enter upon the duties of
his office. The diocese is now fully established
work. He is about 60 years of age, well pre-
served in health, and possesses a vigorous in
tellect.
THE contract for building the Insane Asylum
at Pontiac has been awarded to Coats Il Tap
ping, of Jackson, for 1917, $50. There were
several bidders from Chicago and Milwaukee,
one of whom was a little lower, but, all things
considered the most satisfactory.
The Grand Rapids Times SAYS that there is
no doubt that the total loss sustained in the
peach-growing regions alone by the late terrible
weather will foot up over million of dollars,
and go far toward keeping up hard times along
the lake shore.
IT is the Changers who have the corporations
noses on the grindstone now. The Grand Rap
ids Eagle reporter says he has in his minds eve
a school district on the line of the Grand Rapids
and Indiana railroad in which there are but o
dozen families and not child that can be sent
to school The residents concluded they must
have new school-house, one worth nearly
$780, OF all the residents Of the district but
one was liable to taxation on real property, the
others being homesteaders who are Temporal
rly exempted. These persons, who had no
taxes to pay wanted the school-house built
now, because in short time they will have to
pay taxes, the period of their exemption closing
soon, and they wanted il when it would cost
them nothing. They agreed to club together to
pay the taxes of the one neghbor liable to taxa
ton, the vote to build the school-house carried
the contract was let to themselves, and the nom
resident lands have to pay the bills of these,
almost all are railroad lands owned by the G..
II. and L. In that district lands are taxed 60,
20, and 80 cents an acre for school purposes
alone and some of them the company would be
right glad to sell at 80 an acre if it could. on
even for g. per acre, while the most expen.
sive lands in the district are rated by the com.
pany at $50 an acre.
MICHIGAN FRUIT PROSPECTS.
We condense the following important Inform
alton from the statistical reports of the fruit
prospects in Michigan made at the late meeting
of the State Pathological Society at Lansing
The reports az to the value of the orchards wer,
variable-from 800 TO 81 900 per acre. according
age variety, and nearness to market. A low aver
age estimate Of the bearing apple orchards Of tn,
county liz 5000 per acre. the peach orchards at $500
and the adjoining lands at from S25 to $50 per acre
Az whole, the orchards are in IA healthy a condi
| ton in 1872. .t..
II appears that the winter of 1923 injured but 1
portion of the fruit buds of the apples that tn,
yield of fruit in 1872 less than in 1873 hut tn,
increased price realized for the made the ne
profit greater. In 1874 the yield of apple wa.
greatly increased, that the net returns sre ever
more than i'm 1879 or 1873. The peach buds were in