Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-03-20


H. j. Miner may go crazy on the 1914
Is puzzle, but LeGault & Co. have it now
See their new advertisement.
Miss L. A Rines, dress and cloak max
er, has something to say to the ladies of
this vicinity, in our advertising columns.
Messrs. Macarthur, Smith s. Co. have
raised their prices upon soft coal. They
are now selling at $4.OO and $i.75. Briar
Hill, $500
Charles E. Tibbits, the photographer.
is prepared to do all kinds of work in
his line in first class manner. Give
him call.
Last Wednesday was st. Patricks day
but our friends from the emerald isle, in
this village, made no demonstration to-
ward its observance.
Charles s. Cushman. formerly Of this
place, was elected Clerk of the village OF
Sault Ste. Marie at the late election. He
scored an even two majority over his
opponent, but two was good.
Last Monday the mail carrier from
Mackinac to Point St. Ignace had the
misfortune to have his horse break
through the ice twice while making the
trip, but succeeded in getting him out
both times.
The Democratic state central commit
tee held meeting at the r. ssell house,
Detroit, Tuesday afternoon and decided
to hold the state convention to choose
delegates to the national convention at
Cincinnati, in East Saginaw, June 8.
The Forest and Stream, New York
sporting paper, publishes the TRIBUNE's
account of the rife shooting of the Che
boygan Gun Club, which took place Feb.
18th, and gives it as coming from De
troit correspondent under date OF Feb.
9th.
The Postoffice department has con-
tracted with the propeller Gazelle for
steamboat mail service between PetOs-
kew and Mackinaw six times a week
from June 10 to September 80, 1880,
which fact will be of benefit to pleasure
seekers during the summer months.
Some person or persons in search of
flour below the market price, entered
Nelson & BuIlen's warehouse, on Water
street, last Thursday night by boring
out hole i'm the back door, with brace
and bit, sufficiently large to admit a
man. They secured two barrels of flour
by their enterprise.
Mr.. George III. Ely, of Cleveland and
Mr.. Osborne, of Marquette, appeared be-
fore the committee on commerce last
Tuesday and advocated liberal apprO-
priation for the improvement of the
Sault Ste. Marie river and canal. The
committee is almost unanimously in ia
vor of completing this improvement.
One of our leading citizens received
letter from manufacturer of an anti
fat remedy, requesting a list of the fat
men of this vicinity. The list was furnish
ed and headed with the three following
heavy (O weights of the village. Bert
Begole, j. C. Wooster, and Charlie Hunt.
The three would not make good supervi-
sor of Benton township.
Negaunee Herald says from the way
work on the Detroit, Mackinaw and Mar
quette is being pushed there is reason to
believe that the entire line will be ready
for use by the beginning of the new year.
A large number of men is employed on
the work already in hand, and more will
be engaged as soon as they can be adj
vantageously worked. The present force
from 400 to 5OO-are mostly French
Canadians.
The rumOr that flOated about town a
few days the early part of the week that
the hands in the Duncan machine shops
had struck for higher wages proved to
be untrue. One or two of the men at
tempted to create little dissatisfaction
on the score of wages, but as all the rest
thought that they had received good
wages all winter, and were likely to con-
tinue to do so, the dissatisfied ones receiv-
ed no sympathy in their undertaking.
Mr.. Beamer, the telegraph repairer,
succeeded in getting across to Point st.
Ignace last week but was unable to do
anything towards repairing the cable.
He made an examination, as far as pos
sible, and found the cable all right in
deep water but is of the opinion that the
ice has broken the cable where it passed
over the shoals, and where the ice was
piled up until it reached the bottom.
Nothing can be done towards the repair
until the ice passes out of the straits.
Captain Bouchard went to Mackinac
last Sunday to arrange for an effort to
recover the remainder of the tin thrown
over from the Badger State. He sue
ceeded in getting the tin formerly recov-
cred and left on Bots Blanc island, to
Mackinac and ON Tuesday recovered
fourteen more boxes and left force at
work with fair prospects Of securing the
most of the remaining tin. The Captain
returned Wednesday and reports the ice
ON the straits to be in fair condition.
More zero weather i'm March, so far,
than any month during the winter. By
referring to the weather:table published
in the TRIBUNE we find that there have
been five mornings this month when the