Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1888-07-11

About twenty-five members of tn
Detroit battalion, of the State troops
were passengers on the steamer Cit.
of Mackinac, Sunday, being on thei
way to the island to get the quarters
of their regiment in readiness.
The immense pile of logs, lande'
at the Comstock mill the past winter
has nearly all been sawed into lum
Der, besides which the log train j
bringing in some 10000 feet of log
per day from the Comstock pinerie
in the back part of Altoona county.
G. w. Jones was recently given thu
task of discovering the persons wh'
had taken several cases of beer tina
were shipped by Beck & Co. to par
ties on the Mud Lake branch, anc
George was not long in finding GU
the guilty person. The matter vii
probably be settled without the law.
Shipments of exports were lively
the past week, and % lumber vessels
cleared, carrying 100000 feet Of
lumber, 551, 900 shingles, 100000
lath, 81 cords of match timber and
81 cords of hemlock bark, to the fol
lowing ports Toledo, Buffalo, Cleve-
land, Detroit, Tonawanda, Sandusky
and Chidago.
The present year there has been ex-
ported from this port to Bay City, by
steamers Arundel and Metropolis,
285, 720 pounds of hay. The price
paid here was from S11.00 to $11.50
per ton. w. ID. Hitchcock handled
most of the hay for the farmers, and
charged just merely the low dockage
assessment.
The barge Nellie Mason, of this
city. while loading iron ore at Escana-
ba, Michigan, last Thursday, sprung
leak. She was towed to a shallow
place between two docks and allowed
to settle to the bottom. Soon after a
steam pump was put aboard and
pumped her out. She will have to
be dry locked
Henry Bolton received his little
steam yacht Wednesday night, it hav-
ing been brought down by the steam
er Alpena, from Cheboygan. The
craft was manufactured at Racine,
and is just the thing for Long Lake.
1t has a pretty model, and is finely
finished. The little yacht was taken
to Long Lake Thursday.
A fire was discovered in the alley
back of j. Blaney's residence. on
Fletcher street, about 10 o'clock
Thursday night. Some straw that
was laying there had been ignited by
some unknown means, and if the fire
had not been promptly seen, there is
no doubt but that extensive damage
would have been done. The flames
were easily put out.
The junior base ball club of this
city went to Oscoda on the Fourth
and in a contest with the junior club,
were defeated by score of II to 6.
At the end of the seventh innings the
score was to 2 in favor of the club
here, but in the eighth innings the
Oscoda boys made nine runs. The
game is said to have been n fine one
during the first seven innings.
On Second street there is a regular
gambling room, with faro table and
other gamblers apparatus. One man
is reported TO have lost S400 last week,
and another is said to have lost $3.50
Sunday night last. 1t is run by
stranger. Would it not be nice if
some person in the name of the peo-
pie of the State of Michigan, would
seize the apparatus and. arrest the
proprietor
Two companies of the u. S. regu-
lars, Odd regiment. passed up on the
steamer City of Alpena, last Satur-
day, being enroute for Mackinac,
where they remain during the State
encampment, which commences on
the 18th of this month Tie Guards
will leave here on the steamer Alpe-
ma, July 18th. The encampment
will last two weeks, two regiments be-
ing in camp at time.
The Boom Co. men succeeded in
getting a channel through the i'm
mense jam of logs at the Rapids,
yesterday, having been about FIVE
weeks engaged at the job. The jam,
this spring, contained between 100,-
600, 900 and l50,000,000 feet of logs,
and filled the river for length Of
between three and four miles. The
logs in the rear can now be driven
through ths jam. Superintendent
Buchanan and bis men have done
good work.
In the hurry occasioned by getting
out the ARGUS on the Fourth, we
made mistake in the call for a Dem
ocratic county convention. The date