The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-07-22

township, went before said BoarC
of Registration, had their names
registered, and Immediately wen
to said lumber camp in said Count,
OF Newaygo, and Oh the fifth day
of April, 1875, said four person,
returned to said township and vote
at the Election then and there be,
ing held.
"And the said General further
shows that a few days subsequent,
to the fifth day of April, 1875, Cor
nelius FOrman a resident and voter
in the Township of Pleasant Plains
aforesaid, went to the Township
Clerk of said township and request,
cd permission to inspect the cleo.
ton register containing the names
of the electors qualified to vote in
said township, and was refused sucl
permis sion by said clerk. Tha,
said Forman requested of said clerk
permission to make copy of said
register, and was refused such per.
mission by said clerk. That said
Forman demanded of said clerk a
copy of said register, and rendered
to said clerk his fees for making
said copy, and said clerk peremp-
torily refused to furnish said copy,
and told said Forman that when he
got said copy he, Forman, would
get it by law.
"The inspectors of election in and
for said township pleasant Plains)
at said election april 5th), know
inglv, wilfury, fraudu' emily and le-
gally permitted Charles Sugars,
Barney Reilly and large number
of other persons, to-wit, the num-
Der of eighty persons, as near as
your informant can Learn, but whose
names to your informant are I'M
known, and who were not legal vot-
ers in said township, but were tran
sicnt persons, to vote upon sud
supposed proposition for the rcmov-
al of said county scat, and said par
ties voting were permitted so to
vote, unchallcnged.
cat the election aforesaid, in the
township aforesaid, John King, Ny
ION King, Cornelius Forman, VIM.
Forman, Orlo Melons; Id, VIM. Me-
Donald, Geo. zimmerman, ID. G.
Hill, j. G. Allen, James Roxbury,
one Lutcs, whose christian name
your informant does not now re-
member, and one or two other per-
sons, whose names your informant
does not now recall, voted against
the supposed proposition for the
removal of said county seat of said
Lake county.
"On the 9Th day of April, 1875,
the same being the date of the aforc-
said election, there were not to en-
coed 125 persons lawfully qualified
and entitled to vote at said election
in said township ofPleasant Plains.
"At the annual township election,
held in the township of Glencoe, in
said County of Lake, on the 9Th
day of April, 1875, there were cast
upon said supposed proposition for
the removal of said county seat,
largo number of fraudulent and illc-
gal votes, to-wit: the number of p
illegal votes, as nearly as your in
formant can ascertain, but whose
names at present are wholly nm
known to your informant; and that
on the said day, last named, there
were not to exceed fifteen legal vot-
crs in said township, last named"
At the conclusion of the inform
alton We find the following aflida-
Wit:
State Of Michigan, ..
County Of Lake. :"
James M. Foster, Darius G. War
ner and Augustus Towner, citizens
of sail county, being duly sworn,
deposc and say each for himself,
that they a"e residents of Lake
county aforesaid; that they have
heard read the foregoing and an
nexcd information, and know its
contents, and that they arc we'll ac-
quaintcd with the facts alleged in
said information; that the same arc
true, of their own knowledge, cx-
ccpt as to the facts therein stated
to be upon information and belief,
and as to those facts, they believe
it to be true.
JAMES NJ. Foster,
DARIl G. WARNER,
AUGUSTUS TOwNrR.
and sworn to before me
this 2Sth day of April, 1875.
ENos S. WnITcoMD,
j. =.
The answer to the information
will be published by us next week,
when our readers will have the |
of the whole case be-
Forc them.
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IMPORTED GOosrByRRY SAW FLY.
This destructive insect, which
las finally become scattered all over
,ur State, is also foreigner,
mother of the many requests from
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gladly forcgone. In view Of the
act that we have received vcrymany
If our worst insect pests from Eu-
rope, they ought not to complain if
We have given them Phyllore,u, or
FIVE still add D,ryphora,w which they
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