The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-03-13
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

THs Morenci Fair win occur on Sept %
and Oct. and 2.
A LARGE brick hotel win likely DO built IN
West Bay City tn. season.
A COLLECTION OF $50 ..war envelopes 10
displayed at East Saginaw.
THE Detroit Sisters Of the Good Shepherd
have fled articles OF incorporation.
TARGET practice and games Of chance win
be excluded from the union fairs Ut Plain
we'll.
II. s. DENY, teacher in the High School at
East Saginaw, had his leg broken by q kick
OF horse.
HARBoR SPRINGS makes little things count
into big ones. Two million toothpicks were
q recent days shipment.
THE Hudson village treasury is empty again
before the close of the year, with corporate
liabilities Of 1000 or more.
WILLARD STEARNe, of Adrian, has been
appointed by Gov. Bcgole Commissioners to
the Worlds Fair, ut San Francisco.
JAMES RICHARDSON, OF Adrian, lays claim
TO being the oldest cooper In the United
States. He has worked sixty-nine years at
his trade.
A LETTER was received In East Saginaw re-
Gently which was mailed In Washington Feb.
20, 1888, and was only a year In reaching Its
destination.
LAST September an anaconda about nine
feet In length escaped from a museum In
Bay City. Recently the reptile was dscov-
cred for the first time and shot in q marsh
four miles up the shore from West Bay City.
EDWARD wALrERs, a Flint and Pere Mar
quette brakeman, was run over and killed at
Holly while standing on the track. He was
watching another train, and did not get out
Of the way Of part of his own train, which
was being switched.
SHEPHERD dog tried to stop runaway
team in Rochester. He would snap at the
trailing lines and hold them In his mouth I'M
til no was fatigued when he would fall be-
hind, and with an effort again catch up. In
this way he continued to follow the team I'M
til they stopped.
THE following statistics are taken from the
report of the Commissioners of the State Land
Office for the fiscal year ended Sept 30, 1885,
| The W lie number of acres Of land
held by the State Sept. 80 1882. Il 15S. 93
| Number of acres patented by the
United 81 ates during the year. 438 %
during the year. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2,o52o6
Total. ........................ .1,i5s, ll9 0s
Number OF acres disposed Of during
the year. 1Os. $685. u
Number OF acres held by the State
Sept 80, 1888 ,osS. Ill II
/ hiCh ara Ciassifted ~ fOllOwa.
Agricultural College land .......... 127,S452 81
| Asset land NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 10000
| ASYLUM land. Observation-Disclosures. 1000 90
| Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad land. ~, $3.50 10
Primary School land ................. $50, 500 30
Salt Spring land. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. L796 63
| State building land ................ 1000
Swamp land ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SIC, 3O7 "a
| University land ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. go. 70
Total ,063, Ill 81
The number Of acres actually in market and
acres subject TO sale Sept 30, 1883, was GAG,
396.2s. The receipts OF the State Land Office
on account of land sold during the year. and
for principal, interest, and penalty received
on sales made in former years, and from all
other sources, amounted to S3l1, 1928
There were issued during the year sixty-fve
homestead licenses, covering 4,4i6.06 acres.
There were patented TO homesteaders during
the same period 9,7l7.57 acres. There now
stand as licensed TO homesteaders 81, 535. sc
acres.