Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-03-13

evening at the residence of 7. Van Ars-
dale.
James +. Joy has been reelected d.
rector of the Jackson. Lansing and Sagi-
nav railroad.
Willard Richardson supersedes Ben.
Getchel as driver for T. j. Crumley on
the Cheboygan and Petoskey stage line.
The skating rink has been doing
lively business this week. These zero
nights are just the thing for that bust
ness.
The first mail from Mackinac for fif-
teen days arrived last Monday. The car
riers were twelve days on Bots Blanc
island.
Friday afternoon of last week /. Smith
Bockes found the pile driver hammer,
lost at the head of Mullet lake, imbedded
in nine feet of mud. 1t was recovered
last Monday.
The schooner John Kelderhouse. own
ed by the Cheboygan Lumber company,
has been chartered in Chicago, to take
a cargo of oats from that city to Buffalo,
at SO cents per bushel.
The sales of the land department of
the Jackson. Lansing and Saginaw rail-
road. in February, were: Pine lands,
s64,2oS 40; pine timber. $3,O69 go; farm
ing lands, s5,0434s. Total, s73,OsS 4S.
Workmen are busy at work on the
frame for the large addition to the Grand
Central hotel, and the foundation is be-
ing prepared. Mr.. Mills intends having
it ready for the accommodation of the
summer travel.
Commander Joseph N. Miller, Light
House Inspector for this district, has
telegraphed to Deputy Collector Laslie,
of Mackinac, to notify all light keepers
in his jurisdiction to prepare for light
ing their lights Immediately.
Fl. A. Blake sold the planning machine,
re-sawing machines &c, formerly run
by him in the basement of his machine
shop, to W. E. Parker of Little Traverse.
Teams came over Saturday and loaded
the machinery and left Sunday morning
for Little Traverse.
The representatives from ChebOygan
in the Colorado mining regions all seem
to have struck bOnanzas. Geo. B. Mac
Auley, Anwell LaFave and Hugh McKer-
yey are all reported as on the way to
become millionaires. May they realize
their highest anticipatiOns.
The village board ofregistratiOn added
fOrty-two new names last Saturday to
the list Of voters in the village. The
average at the former sessions has been
only five or six. This would indicate
quite an increase in the population of
the village within the past year.
The storm that visited this section
Thursday night of last week seems to
have been general and did great damage
at various places and causing some loss
of life. At Indianapolis, Ind, Cleveland
and Toledo, Ohio buildings were blown
down, the loss aggregating up in the
hundred thousands.
John HI. Waterman informs us that
Chicago parties have offered nine dollars
per thousand feet for the 100000 of logs
he got out in the winter of of 1879,
but that the owners of the logs refused
that price and hold them at $14. They
are fine lot of logs and the owners
think they can realize better, even, than
$14 by having them manufactured.
Mr.. Humphrey received letter from
R. Diefendorf, the Chicago manager of
the Northern Transit line of steamers
in which he states that this popular line
of steamers will run the coming season
the same as last, and that it was the in
tentiOn to start them out as early as any
other line. This will give ChebOygan
an almost daily boat going each way,
during the season.
Including to-day there has been 1O6
days of sleighing this winter, so far, i'm
this section, with prospects for quite
number more. This only includes days
when runners were used exclusively.
There has been no time this winter when
there was no sleighing in the woods, but
there were several days when the streets
in the village were bare, and these are
not counted in the above.
Last Wednesday a tree fell on TheO-
phille EnOs, employed in VIM. GainOr's
camp, breaking his leg between the knee
and hip joint. The tree struck his head,
shoulder, arm, leg and foot, but the only
serious injury was the broken leg. DR..
Perrin attended to setting the leg and
left him as comfortable as could be ex-
pected under the circumstances. EnOs
formerly worked for John Mulvaugh, the
harness maker.
Tuesday morning the mail for Macki-
nae, and points north of there, consist
ing of nineteen bags, weighing about a
ton, left this village in charge of six
men. The postmaster at Mackinac would
have good time distributing it upon
its arrival. After a previous blockade
he received 80 bags one evening, II from
here and Is from the north. Itkept him
busy all night asserting and distributing
it, did not get through until daylight the
next morning.