Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-05-29
TAT DOlNG.s

Au Sable has 81 saloons and there is
talk OF more.
The state fair will be held at Kalama-
ZOO this year.
Fruit prospects throughout the State
are reported good.
Alpena will celebrate the glorious
fourth ia a becoming manner.
The strike of mill hands at Grand
Haven. izzled, and ths men are at work
again.
Gaylord is to have a new paper-the
Independent. c.. E. Strunk will engin-
eer it.
Decoration Day tomorrow will be
very generally observed throughout the
state. This Is as it should be.
Eeatherbons a substitute for whale
bone, she invention of a Three Oaks man
is now being extensively manufactured.
The Saginaw Courier, DEM, has heard
of ne Democrat who wants to run against
Hon. Roswell G.. Horn for Congress this
fall.
The Coldwater Odd Fellows have died.
icated their new hall, and it is said to be
the most handsomely furnished in the
state.
Sl.ote papers are full of circus ads.
Thu @'lyhite" elephant discussion has
proved a bonanza for several Of our ex-
changes,
The colored people OF Calhoun county
are going to celebrate Emancipation
day-Aug. 1st. Fred Douglass will be
the orator.
The CharlsvOix Journal has been en-
largsd to ten pages. Charley Strang
the industrious publisher is a rustler
and deserves success.
The Marquette Mining Journal will
begin the publication Of a daily edition
June 2. The first daily paper in the
upper peninsula we believe.
John W. COrcOran, chairman of the
Wayne Co. Greenback committee. has
resigned his position and left the party
on account Of its free trade tendencies.
That's the way they feel about it in
Michigan.
Joe Burns and wife paid a fins Of $3.50.
Tor keeping a house Of ill fame at Sault
ST.. Marie. A girl less that fifteen years
OF age was found in the house and was
placed in the county poor house by the
authorities.
The Pressure Isle County Advance says:
There are plenty Of potatoes left in
this county; but the price is SO exceed
ingly low that our farmers prefer feed
ing to the hogs, than to bring them in
and sell them for 25c. a bushel.
The Sentinel thinks Charl0volx is
large enough to support a hearse. The
PetOskey Record kindly offers to loan
them PetOskey's cart. Never mind
worrying about a hsarse, boys, you both
deserve to 20 direct to heaven in a hand
basket.
John Stevens, a brave Berrien county
man, while on his way home from Blu
chanan, discovered chicken thieves rob
bling a friends coop. He drew his briar
pipe on the ~rascals, captured a sack full
of chickens, when the posse, discovering
the character of Johns weapon, fled, but
not until the identity Of the stakeholder
had been discovered.
The oil excitement has rtrUck Che
beygan. From a gentlemen who came
down from that place yesterday it is
learned that wOrkmen engaged in sink
Ing a we'll for water at Duncan City, at
a depth of 220 feet came upOn what is
thought to he oil rock. 1t smelling
strongly. The discovery caused some
excitement, and the C~hsbOyganites pro-
pose to find cut if oil is there. --Saginaw
Herald.
White, Reynolds, and Katterman,
charged with killing Carl Scholtz, while
committing a burglary, were found
guilty at East Tawas, Wednesday Of last
week, of murder in the first degree, and
sentenced to tho State Prison for life at
hard labor and solitary confinement.
Prosecuting Attorney Henry deserves
credit for the able in which
these cases were conducted and Judge
j. B. futile for giving the Villains all
the law allows.
ii. A. Brigden Of Albert, Montmorepcy
county has caught this winter 8 wolves,
10 foxes, 3 fishers, 3 minks, one marten
and one eagle, for which he received in
bounties and for the peltries $147. Is.
This he accomplished entirely during
his leisure hours. He says an old wolf
will kill so deer, old and young, in a
year. They are led to tho slaughter
1rst by necessity, and after hunger has
been satisfied it becomes a matter of
sport, as in the case of sheep killing
dogs.
Patti seems to have carried off all the