Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-12-04
STATE NEWS.

range from $4,000 to 1900 per annum.
East Tawas rejoIces. After years of
patient waiting saloon has been open
ed in the village.
V.B. Hauvisr, of Hudson, who had not
shaved since the defeat of Douglass, has
been manipulated by a barber.
Many Michigan people who were
stricken with the Dakota fever are re-
turning to their first love.
Since last April there have been oyer
IS miles of water pipe laid at Port HUI
ron, and seven new fire hydrants set up.
Grand Rapids has subscribed its share
of the 5000 required for Michigan's ex-
hibit at the New Orleans Exposition.
1t is reported that men have been en-
gagged for work in the woods in the upper
peninsula for So per month and board.
Two thousand two hundred and seven.
ty five pupils at the deaf and dumb ms
titute, Flint, were given the regulation
Thanksgiving feast.
Ouartermaster-G General Shakespeare
has bought 5000 yards Of cloth where
withal to make clothes for the Michigan
militia men.
A man seven feet and one inch long
was arrested for drunkenness at Grand
Rapids. His intoxicated highness
weighed over 300 pounds.
The "Old Red Mill' at Adrian, built in
1929, was destroyed by fire Tuesday morn
ing of last week, the loss being $4,000,
with insurance Of $500.
Samuel Bates, of Leoni, Mich, boy
who left home last summer, has been
heard of as in Africa. He went to Egypt
with Gen. GOrd0n's command.
The Twenty-third Regiments battle
flag, captured during the war, has been
returned to its owner and will be sacred
ly preserved by the state.
Michigan trappers say there is strong
increase in the price of pelts this year.
Last year muskrat pelt was worth but
cents, and now it is worth 10 cents.
A large number of very fine whitefish
have been caught in Higgins lake, above
ROscommOn, and this leads to the belief
lief that the lake has an underground
connection with Lake Huron.
At the meeting of the State Board OF
Agriculture the resignation OF James
Satterlee, Professor Of horticulture and
and Superintendent Of Grounds at the
Agricultural college. was accepted.
The National Exchange Bank of Bos.
ton obtained verdict in the United
States Court, Grand Rapids, against E.
P. Ferry for $17,122, in g suit growing
out of Ferry Brothers failure TIVE years
ago.
The death of the prosecuting attorney
of jackson county, at the beginning of
the trial of Daniel HOlcOmb, for the
murder of the Crouch family, makes the
seventh victim connected with the case.
BY the removal of sluee boards from a
dam on Clam river Tuesday OF last week
the dam at the Falmouth mills was de-
strOyed and the saw mill, shingle mill
and $4,000 shingles were washed oil.
The owner Mr.. Koop, estimates his loss
at $4,000.
In 1848 John Nichols and Dayid Shep-
ard, of Battle Creek, were mechanics
working at their trades in that place.
Now Nichols is President and Shepard
vice president of the great Nichols, Shep-
ard & Co. threshing machine manufac-
turing company, the capital OF which is
$1,000.OO0. iah
Capt. Smith Moore has good property
within the corporate limits OF the city OF
Marquette. Assays Of the quartz run as
high as $84. Work is being done In
number of other places, but these are
the principal. All feel confident that
1856 will see notable gold rush to the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Two mortgages, for $13,OO0,0O0 and
$3,OOO,OOO have been fled with the reg
listers of all the counties along the line
of the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad,
given by that railroad to John E. David
son, w. II. Barnes and Conrad Baker as
trustees, They are continuance of the
MORTGAGES to secure the Pennsylvania
railroad company.
The outlook il that the lumber woods
of Michigan will not furnish work this
winter for more than one half the num-
Der of labOrers that have found employ
ment therein for several years past. We
hear of of operators who have therefore,
put in from 100000 to 100000 who
will not put in log this winter, and
many others vino will greatly curtail
Operations.-Mt.P Pleasant Enterprise.
A Big Rapids lumberman says: II
have ceased manufacturing until such
time as prices and the manufacturers
views of the business are more in har-
mOny. / have my stumpage paid for,
and see no earthly reason why 1 should
sacrifice 1t in order to keep the mill run
ming. only hope the time will soon
come whom the manufacturers can see
things in the same light, stop this heavy
OverproductiOn, and govern the output
in accordance with the demand"
Little Jake" of East Saginaw. il
known all over the state. He is also
very lucky as the following story will
show. Eighteen years ago he loaned
friend $500 to 60 the gold regions and
make his fortune, the friend promising
to return the amount in six months. 1t