Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-02-05
STATE NEWS.

Michigan Supplies one-half of the
lumber of the United States.
LudingtOn people are urging the
claims of that port to be constituted
harbOr of refuge.
1t is believed that there will be big
ice gorge i'm the spring and the bridges
throughout the state are being looked
after.
All the leading business firms of De-
tOrOit have signed a protest against the
passage of the bankrupt law now pend
ing in Congress.
The directors of the new northeastern
agricultural society meet at East Sagi-
nav February s to determine on the
time and place for holding the first fair.
A company has been organized at Chi
cagO, Caleb +. Gates president, to con-
struct a summer resort near CharlevOix.
The land has been purchased, and work
will be begun in the spring.
The Adrian Times says the firm of
Chamberlin & Reeve have sold their ap-
piles, about 5000 barrels, for expectation
to Liverpool, to the parties who bought
them two years ago, for the same pur-
pose.
In several portions of the state the pa
pers are appealing to the farmers to
scatter wheat, crumbs and other food
where the quail can get it, as owing to
the deep snow these birds must starve
unless food is provided for them.
The Greenback party propose to "go it
alone" this spring, and call has been
issued for state convention, to be held
i'm Lansing Feb. 16, to nominate candi-
date for judge of the supreme court, and
two candidates for regents of the uni
versity.
The Adrian Press is mad because the
Democrats i'm the Legislature voted for
G. V. n. LOthrOp for U. S. Senator, on ac
count of his Democracy being of the
doubtful kind, and says he has voted
against the party more than with it the
last ten years.
MuskegOn will have thirty-twO steam
SawmillS running next season and cut
over 600.OO0,O00 feet of lumber. Four
new mills are being built, with an ag-
gregate cutting capacity of 100000 feet
per day. The new mills will cost up
wards of $4,000.
According to the new census Grand
Rapids has 504 manufacturing establish
ments, in which $5,477,352 capital is in
vested, and which gives employment to
6,742 labOrers. The total wages per
year is $2,2S7,OO0. The total value of
| the material consumed is $4,791 ,467. The
total value of product is $9,076,4S6.
East Saginaw has the requisite popu-
latiOn and the receipts of the postOffice
are sufficient for the establishment of
| the free delivery system. The same is
true of Bay City, but the appropriation
| for the present fiscal year is exhausted,
and they will have to wait. The Demo-
Gratis in Congress had to make show of
economy, you know.
The Frankfort Express says Luding-
ton has always been claimed as the site
where the old missionary and explorer
Pere Marquette died and was buried.
But Chas. Burmeister, who after several
years of study, now comes out and
claims that Frankfort is the place, and
has old history to back it; showing posi-
lively that on May IS, 1875, the Jesuit
priest sickened and died at the mouth of
Betsey river.
The jackson Patriot, of January 20,
says short time since a child of George
ID. House, who resides just beyond the
city limits in Blackman township, died
from diphtheria, and Immediately anoth-
er of his children was stricken down
with the disease. Thereupon by advice
of the attending physician, as a precau-
tionary measure, the entire house was
ventilated daily, the walls of the cellar
and the ceilings of the rooms were thor
Oughly whitewashed, all the bedding
and wearing apparel of the family were
subjected to an efficient airing, and the
floors were sprinkled and furniture
washed with disinfectants. The win.
dOws in which the sick child lay were
lowered, proper tempature being main
tanned by good fire, and in short time
the little sufferer began to mend and is
now nearly well. Meantime none of the
remaining members of the family were
attacked, and the house will probably
not be placarded after to-day.