The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-07-30
The following Michigan pension

| Wheeler, Grand Rapids VIM. g. Miner Port
land; VIM T.. Parmater Gaylord; VIM. G. Jor-
dan, Tecumseh; Alfred keyser, kalamazoo
Harrison b. Hapner Strickland.
Increase-John q. Fox Detroit; Thomas w.
Holmes, Rockford; Phietus Gage, Marlette
Francis Brock. Caro-; Joseph Carl Elva Mel
son Drake, Weldon Creek; Ithanar Haskin,
Cheboygan; Clark Cballans, TOnquish Albert
w, Dillenback Woodland; George A. Names
! Ionia; William Reynolds Muskegon: Frede-
rick Delano Muskegon; Hiram ID. Lee, Dams
Vile; Cyrus st. John, Moscow; Harvey g..
Packard, salem; George Brockway, Bliss
field; George II. Hunt, Kalamazoo; Owen Cum
ningham. West Bay City; Alphonzo Covey,
Cadillac; Wait B. Steenberger, kalamazoo
Daniel Jacobs. Alanson; David w. Rogers,
NJ. Rice Morenci; George Nj. Holloway. Indian
Lake; James ketchem, Nicksburg; Leayitt g..
Page. Burlington James Finton, Duck Lake
George Il. Leland, Flushing; Daniel Hibner,
Long Rapids; Leland H. Gregory, Garland
Luther Pray, Dowagac; Joseph Booth, Law
ton Richard Hale, South Haven; Leroy Requa,
Corunna; Alanson Youngs, Saranac; Edwin
Tyler. Nermontvle; Daniel w. Feas, Three
Rivers; Nelson King, Battle Creek; William
Phinisey. Bedford Josephus Johnson. Pontiac
George Il. Finch, Pittsford Adam stetten, Og-
den Center Edward Smith, Benton Harbor; Ja-
son Mandley, Bay City; Theodore Wakeman,
Greenville; Asbury L. Long, Harbor sprin ss /;
Oliver Ii. +. Springer, Eaton Rapids Geo. r..
Williams, Iouia; Francis Brown, st. John
Graham b. Blair, Eaton Rapids James II.
Brown, lonia August Talbert; Lambeftvillee
Walker, Henderson; VIM. ii. Bennett, Rock
ford Asahel Dodge Fairburg; Adam Beattie
Ovid Albert Owen Vienna; Wilson Gossett IS
H., Grand Rapids VIM. Gauntlet, Milan Benz.
Il, Sanford. Dawson station Loren Parmelee.
Albion Oren Lewis, Detroit; Willard :. WILL
Jams, Flint; Ward Chapman, Dundee: John
Miller, Petersburgh Geo. II. kimme Berrien
Springs; Francis NJ. Dodge Vandalia Josiah
r. Cook, Parma Adelbert w. sayles, Ionia
James Whalan, Alpena Ernst Crippen, Brigh-
ton; Lewis b. Grosvenor, Ransom Orlin 4.
Cook, Three Rivers.
Reissue-william H. Smoke, Grand Ledge
Andrew j. Baker, Highland Station Henry j.
Fell, Ithaca; Howard j. Allbce. Verne.
Reissue and lncrease-Chester Savacool
Hastings.
Original Widows, Etc.-Susan C. dncreasel
widow Of Isaac n. Miner Montgomery; Helen
A widow of Newell +. Slawson Cedar Springs
Norton L., father of Frederick G. Miller, La
peer Sarah, widow Of Philip W. Gibe Oakland (;
Emily r., widow of Roswell w. Brown, Law
ton Fanny w. Midget mother OF Edward Il.
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-
hNrt ha 20 ha M
dered new survey and lands that were
found by this new survey not to be swamp
or overhowed lands were withheld by the
government from their original grant, and
patents refused The lands thus withheld
amounted to q little more than a million
acres Ignoring the grant made to the
State, these lands were 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 it's own, brought suits
in the Ingham County Circuit Court,
against three railroad companies, who
still held l84, 900 acres of these lands
The decision is in harmony with that OF
other courts, and affirms the right of the
State TO these disputed lands. so far 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.. L. w. Sparrow and the Michi-
gln Land and Lumber Company, involv-
ing the ownership of l6, 600 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 Tawss. Then
he visited Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio,
and in 1874 returned to England for q
visit. A year later he returned to Michi-
gan, and settled at Decatur with his wife
and children. Early this week he learned
that chancery court in England had
been advertising for him since last No
vembsr as one of the heirs to a 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 tight little sum
of money.
The Saginaw County crops are fully
mp 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. II, 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 were under IL years OF age.