Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-05-18
TOWN TALK.


and made it all by judiciOus advertising.
Does Cheboygan boast of any plospee-
tive millionaircs?
The circus has come AMI gone. but We
need not mourn as those without hope.
Nightly serenades of COW bells Will
soon be i'm season.
Talk is cheap, but it takes money to
build railroads. This accounts for the
delay i'm the commencement of work OH
the Mackinaw g. Marquette railroad.
The Marquette Journal states that out
of sixty homesteads taken up through the
land office at that place, forty seven were
located in Chippewa County. The set
tiers are mostly from Canada.
DIR. Daniel Day, of Detroit, and who
was interested i'm the Marine City House
property in this village. died suddenly
last Friday night, in a street car in that
city. Heart disease vas the cause.
When young man comes into our
office and leans over our shoulder to read
what We are writing, tears of sympathy
spring to our eyes. for we know he must
lave been left an orphan 1T very early
age.
There are two important POINTS upon
the great lakes where there should be
signal stations stablished-Cheboygan
and Sault Ste. Marie. A petition should
be circulated among vessel men to this
end.
A farmer who cannot dig success out
of the rich lands of Chcboygan county
will not amount to much anywhere else
in these United States. This county pos
sesses advantages which cannot be found
anywhere else, east, west or south.
Attorney General Otto Kirclner last
Monday morning commenced snit for
$4,000 in behalf OF the state, i'm the
Wayne county circuit court against John
1IOsmer anil John B. Sutherland rs
ebondSmen for Frank Gorton. the default
ing superintendent of the Sault Ste.
Marie ship canal.
The Detroit Free Press states, upon
the authority of the Bay City Tribune,
that there is n large emigration into
Cheboygan county this year." Any way
so that the facts come before the people.
The TRIBUNE has been doing all IT, can.
There is plenty of the best of land yet
to be had here for Industrious settlers
The funny man on every newspaper i'm
the country has had his say about the eagle
on the new dollar. We have not exer-
cised our talents on the bird yet, for We
have not seen him. If any of our rea l.
rrs want to see something immensely
funny OH the subject, let him furnish the
specimens. If We don't make him roar
We will keep the DOLLAR.
The question that is agitaIing the man.
agement of the Marquette & Mackinaw
railroad. and, for all we know. may be
cause of the delay in commencing
the work, is how the cars will be taken
winter? Our solution of the problem
would be to take them over with ball
looms. rs gas seems to BE- the principal
comodity of the company.
last Monday night two soldiers be-
longing at fort Mackinaw deserted. The
same night the pOstoffi.e and two stores
on the isl nd were broken into and about
fifty dollars cash and one hundred dol
lars worth of clothing stolen. 1t is sup
posed that the deserving soldiers were
the guilty parties. They took possession of
small boat and crossed the straits. land
ing some nine or ten miles above this
village, where the boat was found Tues
day.
Two pOnderous locks for the ship canal
have been made OIL the Central wharves
and are really for shipment up the lakes.
Detroit Free Press. The Chicago In
fer,Ocean, which is authority on marine
matters, says ''that it is not decided yet
whether they will be towed to the Sault
or put upon the deck of some passing
vessel, willing to take them" For our
plrt we can't see how "two ponderous
locks" can be towed through the lakes
neither can we See how they can be load
ell on The deck of a vessel any better. We
don't pretend however to know anything
about nautical matters. OF course il
must be our ignorance. We would moi
pretend to insinulte that the Free Press
MN did not knew the difference between
":sates" and ''iocAs.''