Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-12-04
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS. =.
The branch from the Flint & Pere
Marquette railroad to Manistee will be
built this winter, the contract having
been let.
The Detroit 81 Butler railroad bridge
over the Raisin river at Adrian is 675
! feet long, including its timber ap-
prOaches.
The Detroit base ball club has been or
ganized. 1t is to be one of the strongest
mines in the country; $1,000 stock has
been raised.
GOvernOr-elect Jerome has been in
specting many of the state institutions.
and proposes to 60 into Office well posted
as to his duties.
Andrew Wooden of Emmett, Calhoun
county, raised All bushels of wheat on
10 acres of Oat stubble ground this year.
Bay6county ,sent thirty-nine persons
to the IOnia reformatOry during the past
year. Saginaw county sent sixty-nine.
The cold snap interfered seriously
with the plans of the fish commission,
which had secured about 100000 white
fish eggs when the storm came up, about
half of which were destroyed.
Com missioner Addison Mandell has
been ordered to pay to the state of Mich
igan the sum of $6,S37.42 taxes of the
Chicago & Lake Huron railroad for 1873.
and interest for July 1, 1879.
1t is said that the wolf bounty law in
this state is tied up with so much red
tape that hunters do not care to kill the
varmints, and they are waxing plenty,
strong and sassy.
While the.Postmaster at Mt. Clemens,
Mich, was awaiting for the train Mon
day night, thief made way with one of
the letter bags. 1t was discovered
mile from the depot rifled of its contents.
At many places in Michigan the ice
and full supply is being secured for
next summers use. The solid crystal
is found to be about nine inches thick in
some places.
A frightful boiler explosion occurred
in Charlotte, Mich, Saturday afternoon,
instantly killing George Moore, boy 13
years, and an unknown man, and badly
injuring Andrew r. Moore, E. N. Muger,
c. w. Canute and John Middling.
The Wayne County Courier shows that
the value of the iron product of the
WyandOtte blast furnaces and rolling
mills for the year ending Oct. 1880, was
$1,250OOO. This included pig iron, plate.
bar and sheet iron.
A little eight-years-Old daughter ofW.
Stearns, of Adrian, won't lick any more
snow from an iron pump-handle when
| the mercury is below zero. She tried it
the other day, and left enough of her
tongue to make life just miserable for a
woman,
The Michigan salt association has
been shipping salt in sacks to the south,
and thinks it will prove great success.
So far, 100000 sacks have been shipped.
1t is put up in $50 pound sacks, and takes
the place of English salt in the southern
markets.
In case on trial at Kalamazoo some
very interesting points have been ad-
duced, showing the danger to wells and
other water supplies situated near ceme-
| teries. DIR. Duffield testified to personal
knowledge of deflement of water by a
cemetery 10 miles away.
The Hancock Mining Journal says:
eff the people may be taxed to build a
| gymnasium, for the use of the students
at university, they may with equal pro-
priety be taxed to build bOat-hOuse,
| furnish shells and keep professional
trainer to instruct the boys in HanlOn-
| ics."
At the union orchestral recital hall at
Jackson one night this week, one girl
played the piano, another the cello, an
other the flute, two the viola, and nine
the violin. There were but five males
in the orchestra. These girls were all
quite young, and are making great pro-
gress in music.
Manistee mill men have recently made
some very heavy purchases of pine land.
One firm bought a tract for $4,000; an
other, for $4,000; another, for $121, 600;
and still another for about 100000.
/ These purchases were on the Manistee.
G. A. Hart has just bought 100000 worth
ON the Au Sable river.
A party of four or five mighty Nimrods
of South Saginaw went deer hunting in
Osceola county, where they established
snug camp, but before they carOmed
/ on the game fire cleaned them out, and
they returned home minus even their
overcOats. AS they filed into Saginaw
they looked like whole family of re-
turning prOdigal sons.
How well the tramps are cared for in
this state is shown by the report of the
warden of the Iona house of correction,
which shows that of the 866 prisoners
received during the year, 422 were
tramps. They were sent from justices
court at cost to the state for fees and
expenses of constables and other officers
of $6,528.51; the cost of their keeping
while inmates was $1S.232.55, and their
transportation from the house of cOrrec-
tion cost $l.429.S1, making their total
cost to the state of $26,100.87.
The board of control of the Michigan
state reform school, i'm their report to
the superintendent of public instruct
ions, set forth that they ask an apprO-
priatiOn of $35, 900 for current expenses
for 1881 and 1882. They also ask for
$4,000 for chapel, $500 for a new
roof on the main building, $500 for
filling up a swamp, $3.50 for barn,
and $500 for recreation hall for win
ter use. They also submit that the main
building is so poorly built and sadly
dilapidated that it is scarcely worth fur
ther appropriations for repairs. During
the past year III boys were committed
and 166 released, leaving 3l6 in the
school on the 1st of October, 1880. Since
the school was opened 2,3l2 boys have
been sent there.