Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-08-27
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
A Benton HarbOr canning company
has a contract to furnish the United
States navy 100000 cans of tomatoes.
New settlers are reported to be moving
into the newly organized county of OscO-
da very rapidly.
G. H. Hodskin. deputy state treasurer,
has resigned. He has filled the position
since 1873, and made an honorable re-
cord.
The board of supervisors of Wexford
county have created six new townships,
just in time to take hand in the county
seat war.
Michigan farmers are getting from
$1.23 to $1.26 per bushel for wheat-and
in one or two places even higher rates
were paid last week.
The cOroner's jury decided that the
explosion in West Bay City, which re-
suited so fatally, was all owing to the
incompetency of the men in charge Of
the boiler,
The surveyors for the Alpena and Bay
City railroad were surveying the route
through AlcOna the first of the week
and expected to reachsthes esnOrth line of
the county,this week.
Only five women in the United States
are on record as bankers or bank officers,
and one of these is in Michigan. The
cashier of Bovine 81 Combs bank at
Vaudeville, Barry county, is Miss Jennie
Combs.
There is an awful state of affairs in
little Michigan town where atype-setter
substituted the word "widOws" for
"windOws." The editor wrote: "The
windows of the church need washing
badly. They are too dirty for any use,
and are disgrace to our village" Inter
| Ocean.
At the bicycle race in Charlotte on Fri
day, in five-mile race for the state
championship, A. j. Eddy of Flint took
| first prize; Mr.. Barnard of Niles, second;
f. F. WOOdcock of Lansing, third, and
Mr.. Haas of Flint, fourth prize. The
distance was made by Eddy in 20 minutes
and 36 seconds, on heavy track.
Justice Stanley Matthews, Of the Uni
| ted States Supreme Court, has decreed in
favor of the Detroit LubricatOr Manufac-
turing Company against the American
LubricatOr Company, also of Detroit, for
infringement of their visible feed. An
| Injunction has been issued. 1t is said
| they have 10000 of these lubricatOrs in
| use, which will be affected by this decis-
| ion.
Sam Sias, of Midland, has contracted
with Col. Geo. Fuller to put 100000
| feet of logs into the Muskegon river the
coming winter, for which little1ob he is
| to receive an even $100,Cc0. The work
will require about 400 men and 120
teams, and is probably the heaviest con-
| tract of the kind ever made in Michigan.
Geo. w. Hill, state salt inspector, who
lately went to Manistee, has appointed
Clark Johnson deputy inspector of the
newly opened salt district at that place.
The quartermarter- general of the state
militia has made arrangements with the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad company to
carry the governor and staff, legislature
and state troops over the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad to Washington for
the Yorktown celebration, leaving Detroit
Saturday. October Is, reaching Washing
ton Sunday afternoon, remaining in
Washington until Monday evening, then
taking a steamer for Yorktown, return
ing from Yorktown Friday evening for
Washington.
The Spiritualists were greatly Mortified
by one of the speakers, at the Battle
Creek camp meeting, Mr.. JemisOn, who
Sunday publicly declared that all spirit
manifestations" and "tests" were hum
bugs. He claimed that he had been
prominent lecturer for them and had
helped humbug the people, but would do
| it no longer, but would come out liberal
free thinker and infidel. These state
ments Greats ,d much excitement an o1g
the Spiritualists, and raised their indig-
nation to white heat to think that he
should expose them in their own meet
ing. He claims that all their tests are
tricks, and that he himself has deluded
the public with them.
Saginaw Herald: DR.. Garrigues, chem
ist Of the salt association, has completed
the analysis of the sample brine received
from the MuskegOn salt we'll. The analy-
sis shows that the brine is very similar
to that produced in the Saginaw salt
district. There isl some impregnation
with sulphuretted hydrogen, which, how
ever, evapOrates at a comparatively low
temperature, and is therefore not likely
to cause any trouble. as it will be re-
moved by the heat applied in the ordinary
course of manufacture. The. earthly
chlOrides found in the brine from the
Saginaw district are also apparent In the
Muskegon, though, perhaps, in a little
less quantity. These chlorides Of cal
cium and magnesia will of course be re-
moved by the same processes adopted
for the purpose in this salt district. The
MuskegOn brine is fully saturated, that
is, the water will hold no more salt in
solution, and is therefore nearly 30 per
cent. salt, being trifle stronger than
Saginaw brine, which is owing to the
fact that the brine lies nearer the salt
rock deposit.