Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-12-16
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER IS. 1882.

Judging from present Indications we
would predict that there would be sew
eral days of sleighing before the winter
is over.
We notice that Notwithstanding the
storms of the past week or ten days, there
is considerable building going on. Che
bOygan is bound to grow.
Capt, Bouchard reports rough trip
with the Van Raalte on her last trip Of
the season and says that Saturday she
ran through fifty or sixty miles of ice
on his way down.
G.S. Wilson will open his new photo
graph parlors in few days where he
will do as good work as can be done in the
large cities. Rooms over Post & Van
Arsdales old hardware store.
AS Christmas is approaching the little
ones, and some of the larger ones, can
be seen gazing with wistful eyes at the
display of holiday goods in the numerous
windows, many of which are qnite at
tractively arranged.
The Van Raalte has gone into winter
quarters at s. Baker & Sons dock. after
a very successful seasons business.
Capt. Bouchard did intend making one
more trip, but concluded there was a
little too much weather. tll4it
There seems to be but little doubt
about the reduction of postage on letters
to two cents. and it is claimed that
Postmaster-G General Howe has taken the
preliminary steps towards the extensive
manufacturing of the two cent st amps.
The tug Kremer, one of the Coates
fishing tugs, came over from Mackin ac
Thursday afternoon for the purpose of
laying up. She had quite time break
ing channel through the ice in front
of S. Baker & Sons dock, so as to get
above.
The schooner Uuadilla, which left the
straits Tuesday of last week, after laying
at anchor two days off of this port, got
frozen i'm on Lake Erie and was released
with great difficulty and towed back to
Amherstburg. Ont. last Tuesday. She
was surrounded with eight inches of
solid ice.
A Mr.. Miles, from Ohio has purchased
lot of pine timber in the vicinity of
Wolverine station, and is going to move
saw mill he has beeh running in Ohio,
to that village for the purpose of manu-
featuring his timber into lumber and
doing such other saving as he may be
able to secure.
The next Of the series of entertain
ments under the auspices of the
l. o. 0. +. lodge. of this village, will oe
given at the town hall on the evenings
of January 9th and 10th. by G. Paul
Smith, the character artist, and one of
the best of the profession, and our citi-
zens may anticipate two evenings of
genuine enjoyment.
The weather Thursday and Friday of
last week, was several degrees colder at
Detroit than in Cheboygan. Below De-
trOit, at the Canada Southern railroad
crossing the ice formed so quickly as to
interfere with the heavy transfer steam
ers and for twenty-eight hours one of
them was fast in midstream with twenty
two cars of live stock on board.
The pay roll of the men employed by
Carkin, Stickney, & Cram, in their work
of dredging and other public improve
ments from May LIST to December lst
averaged $630.20 per day. They have
kept seven dredges, with the necessary
number Of tugs and scows to attend them
steady at work the entire season, the
two dredges here being the last to lay
up.
The wrecking tug Leviathan arrived |
at Milwaukee last Monday morning.
Capt. Kirkland stopped at the ManitOus
to take look at the schooner Montauk
and reports that she has gone to pieces,
so that not vestige of the hull remains
above water, while the cargo of coal is
being thrown upon the beach by the
waves. This coal will prove harvest |
to the fisherman, unless the under
writer's take measures to prevent them
from appropriating 1t.
The st. Paul, which left here Tuesday
morning Of last week only succeeded in
getting as far as Detroit, reaching there
last Saturday at noon. They stopped at
Alpena and took on 10000 feet of lum-
Der and several hundred thousand feet of