Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-07-31
The following Michigan pension
have been Rrnntad.

Original Invalid-Charles Edwards, Corunna,
Charles 3. Harris, West Haven; George r. BheI
das; Henry H.. Turner, Dllssheld George w.
| wheeler, Grand Rapids VIM. q. Miner, Port
land; VIM. 4. Parmater Gaylord; VIM. O. Jor.
dan, Tecumseh; Alfred Keyser, Kalamazoo
Harrison b. Hapner, Strickland.
Increase-John q. Fox, Detroit; Thomas w.
Holmes. Rockford; Philetus Gage, Marlette
| Francis Brock. Caro- Joseph Carl, Elva; Nell
son Drake, Weldon Creek; Ithamar Haskin,
gheboygan; Clark Challans, Tonquishj Albert
w. Dflsnback, Woodland; George A. Maines.
Ionia; William Reynolds, Muskegon; Frede-
rick Delano, Muskegon; Hiram ID. Lee, Dams
vile Cyrus 81. John, Moscow; Harvey O.
asId afsSkard sorss salem g DC GeGrgs Brochwsy Bliss
ningham. West Bay City; Alphonzo Covey.
Cadillac; Wait b. steenberger, Kalamazoo
YpsIlanti; zebulon L. Doty Marshall; Frsncis
| NJ. Rice, Morenci George M. Holloway. Indian
Lake; James Ketchsm, vicksburgi Leayitt Q.
George L. LELAND, Flushing; Daniel HIbner'
Long Rapids; Leland H. Gregory, Garland
Luther Pray. Dowagiac; Joseph Booth, Law
] e o3n. nsvsn Leroy iss9ra,
Tyler. vermontviIie; Daniel W. Feas, Three
Phinisey, Bedford Josephus Johnson, Pontiac
George r. Finch, Pittsford; Adam Stetten, Og-
den Center Edward Smith, Benton Harbor Ja-
son Mandley, Bay City Theodore Waterman
Greenville; Asbury 7. Long, HRrbor Springs
Oliver II. p. Springer, Eaton Rapids; Geo. e.
williams, Ionia; Francis Brown, ST. John
L.
Brown, Ionia; August Talbert Lambertville;
Charles Baldus, Eastmanville; Benz. f.
Walker, Henderson; VIM. H. Bennett, Rock
ford; Asahel Dodge. Fairburg Adam Beattie,
Ovid; Albert Owen Vienna; Wilson Gossett Is.
H.. Grand Rapids VIM. Gauntlet, Milan BENZ.
Sanford, Dawson Station Loren Parmelee,
Albion Oren Lewis Detroit; Willard s. Will
Jams, Flint; Ward Chapman, Dundee: John
Miller, Petersburgh Geo. IL. Kimmel, Berrien
s. Springs; Francis NJ Dodge, yandHlia; Josiah
James Whalan, Alpena; Ernst Crippen, Brigh-
toni Lewis b. Grosvenor, Ransom; Orlin p.
Cook, Three Rivers.
Reissue-wiliiam Ii. Smoke, Grand Ledge
Andrew j. Baker, Highland Station Henry j.
Fell, ithaca; Howard j. Allbee Verne.
Reissue and Increase-Chester Savacool,
Original Widows, Etc.-Susan C. dncrease),
widow OF Isaac N. Miner, Montgomery Helen
Norton L., father of Frederick @. Miller, La
peer Sarah, widow Of Philip w. 1ibe, Oakland
EmiY t5n faT h TMlaoE w. 81 RSs%s Ji1 y u
Adams. Ionia.
AN important suit, brought by the
State against the Flint & Pere Marquette
Company, has just been decided in favor
of the State by Judge Peck, of the Ingham
Country Circuit. The suit involves the
question of ownership of many thousands
of acres of valuable pine ana farming
lands, having grown out of the grant Of
swamp lands to the State of Michigan
from the general government for the
purpose of drainage and reclamation.
Michigan, by an act of the Legislature
pass ed in 1852, accepted the grant accord
ing to the United States survey and plats,
without sending an agent to make selec-
tions, as most of the other States did.
Soon after the grant was made and ac-
cepted by the StIte the Government Or
dered q new survey and lands that were
found by this new survey not to be swamp
government from their original grant, and
patents refused. The lands thus withheld
amounted to littlo more than a million
acres. Ignoring the grant made to the
State, these lands we're put upon the
market, granted to railroad companies
to homesteaders, and disposed of exactly
in the same manner as lands were where
the title was undisputed. Courts in other
States and the United States Court had
decided, in similar cases, that the orig
inal grants carried the title, and that the
Government had no right to withhold tho
patents because of the discovery made in
making the second survey. The Attorney
General, believing that the State ought
to claim and protect its own, brought suits
in the Ingham County Circuit Court,
against three railroad companies, who
still held $4,000 acres of these lands.
The decision is in harmony with that of
other courts, and affrms the right of the
state LL--- AR -s-A a--s~, 90 AaE as
those held by the Flint and Pere Mar
quette Railroad Company. The other
companies against whom suit is pending
are the jackson, Lansing and Saginaw
and the Grand Rapids and Indiana, and
the same principles, substantially, are
involved in these cases. The case Of the
State VS.. E. w. Sparrow and the Michi-
gIn Land and Lumber Company, involv-
ing the ownership of l6, 900 acres of land,
was also decided by Judge Peck in favor
of the State.
Thomas Culverhouse left England
in 1872 and went into the Michigan
pineries to work. When he left the
woods he located at East Tawas. Then
he visited Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio,
and in 1874 returned to England for a
visit. year later he returned to Michi-
gan, and settled at Decatur with his wife
and children. Early this week he learned
that a chancery court in England had
been advertising for him since last No
yembsr as one of the heirs to large es-
tate, thirty miles from London, on which
Lord Nathaniel Mayer de Rothschild at
present resides. Culverhouse has for
warded his credentials to England, and
expects to come in for a tight little sum
Of money.
The Saginaw County crops are fully
up to expectations, and about on an aver
age with that of last year.
The Seventeenth Michigan Infantry
Associat on will meet this year at Ypsi-
lenti, Sept. IL, the twenty eighth ami
yersAry of the battle Of Antietam.
The st. Clair County Jail has had
$50 occupants during the past year, fifty.
two Of whom we're under Is years or age
The Bay City FIRE department re
ceived cheek for $50 from w. ID. Green
manager Of the Telephone Exchange. 70
saving the Exchange during the recen
fro.
Cant. Davidson. of West Bav CITY