The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-12-12

with Assistant Attorney General Mont
gomery. in Washington, heard argument
in the matter OF certsin swamp lands
claimed by the State of Michigan. These
lands, embracing about thirteen hundred
acres, we're originally certified to the State
In 1888 and 1854 as Swamp and over
flowed lands. Resurveys were afterward
made in which they were not classified as
Swamp" The General Land Commits
sioner thereupon denied the right of the
State, and in lSsl-23 admitted large
number Of private entries. Britton IL,
Gray, of Washington, counsel for the
State, contend that the action of the Sec
rotary of the Interior in certifying the
lands as swamp identified them as coming
within the grant, and that no subsequent
survey could change or affect the vested
rights of the State therein. They also
maintain that the States title is con-
firmed by the act OF March 3, 1887. 1t is
said that the decision in the pending case
will affect the titles to about LOO, 900
acres of land in the northern part of the
State.
The George T. Smith Purifier Com
pany, of Jackson, have shipped a carload
of goods to Constantinople.
The village hall at Morenc is to be
equipped with q full assortment Of
scenery for theatrical exhibitions.
The Kalamazoo celery crop will
amount to about $3.50, 900 in value this
season.
-Escanaba weeps for better sewerage
The Bay City Water Works in the
gallons.
| Work will be commenced early in
the spring on the street railway at Ann
Arbor.
| Marion is to have clothing store.
--Escanaba will spend $4,000 on street
improvements next year. 7go
st. Ignace now has street car line
equipped with two cars. Trips every if
teen minutes. t nr
BY January 10, 1882 Lansing will have
a fully equipped incandescent electric
light system in operation. r9 osofHt
A black fox was killed near Nance
Iona the other day.
The new Schoolcraft County Jail, at
Manistique, is completed.
When Captain Eber B. Ward the
well-known Detroit millionaire, died. in
1875, he left property valued at $4,000, 900.
His will left 10000 acres of pine lands,
10000 acres of cleared lands, two saw
mills, etc., at Ludington, valued at Sl,000,-
900, to his second wife and their two chill
dren. To friends he made requests of
stocks worth 100000 The remainder
was left to his seven children by his first
wife. The second wife was Miss Cath
crime L. Lyon, of Conneaut, Ohio, who
was niece of the late Senator Ben Wade,
of Ohio. A codicil revoked the requests
to the children of the first marriage, and
gave each of them only $500 per month.
Three children of the first wife contested
the will On the trial which followed the
jury disagreed. The executors then found
that the estate, owing to the depression in
values which followed the panic, would
not pay for itself John L. Ward, the
grain operator of Chicago and Thomas
II. Lyon, now of Ludington, went to
Mrs. Wards assistance, and borrowed
capital from Lyman j. Gage, of
Chicago, and bought up the claims
on the estate, which amounted to
Sl5O,000. They paid out 100000
more than the property was worth, but
subsequent advances in value justified
this For illustration, 5ll bonds of the
Burlington and Southwestern Railroad,
practically worthless stocks, were bought
at 800 each and afterward sold to the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, which
company acquired the former road, for
$3.50 each, profit of S373,00 The
liquidation of the estate wiped out all the
legacies. Mrs. Ward, who is now Mrs.
Alexander Cameron, of Windsor, deter
mined recently to make good the terms Of
Captain Wards will, and has so far paid
out nearly $3.50, 900 to his relatives. This
generosity made Mrs Ward feel so COM
Portable that she has entered on course
OF charity and well-doing, and at the
Russell House in Detroit planned the dis
bursement of large sums, including a
handsome gift TO the city of Detroit. The
precise form the gift will take and its
amount have not been determined. She
has also given $40, 900 to the relatives of
her present husband and intends before
she dies to give away the major part of the
remainder of her estate, which amounts to
about "a, 900, 900. She is in the prime of
life. Her husband is also q millionaire.
The hack business is said to pay az
we'll at Adrian as in any city in the State.
The Kirby Carpenter Company has
recently purchased large tract of pine
timber at the head waters of the Paint,
consisting of about $50 O00, 900 feet. 1t is
said to be fine block of timber, but por-
ton of it is located several miles from any
stream, and short line of railroad will be
built from the river IN the forest In all