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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-06

Big lots of new goods this week at lowe al
prices at Geo. 81. Rohrs & Bros. / q
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-06
The summer is fleeing,
October is nigh,
And a fall suit of clothes,
You'll soon have to bnv.

And Geo. Hahn, the One Price Clothier,
can sell it to you at prices cheaper than
elsewhere. Try him. If
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-06

New seed wheat and timo.
thy seed, best in the market
at BRADLEY's.
If
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-06
Don't Butcher Yet.

Hams 12c and Fresh Bacon
10c at the
2t PORK HOUSE.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-06
Resolutions of Respect.

Millinery opening the rest of this weet at
Mrs. Frease's.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-06

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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14

their bonds with Drexel, Morgan a. Co.
with the least possible delay.
The same paper on the 7th, had tho adj
ditional information
Gen. Alger was surprised when he
heard that Drexel, Morgan a Co. had call
ed meeting OF the first mortgage bond
holders OF the Detroit, Bay City Il Alpena
railroad In view of an alleged likelihood
that the interest on the bonds to mature
January next would not be paid. He
said that the company expected to pay
the interest on time as IL was believed
the earnings OF the road would improve
There had been falling off In the earn
ings owing to the depletion Of the timber
limits along the route, the fact that the
line had not been extended beyond AL
pena and the passing OF the upper penin-
sula roads into the possession OF the
Canadian Pacific, which had diverted a
great amount OF traffic to the latter lines
The d., b. @. "a, the general continued,
ought to DO built on from Alpena to the
straits and from some point near Au Ores
to Bay City, so as to connect with the
Michigan Central, Grand Trunk, and
Flint d Pere Marquette However,
he could not tell what the future might
bring forth.
The road and its equipment cost "a ,245,-
307. The funded debt Is $780, 900.
The earnings last year, over and above
operating expenses and taxes, were $217,-
805. The years tonnage was 1898, 1908 !;
the total passenger mileage, 1913, 083.
Its rolling stock Is valued at $500, $50.
Gen. Alger, M. S. Smith, Senator Nc
MILAN, T. II. Newberry and j. G. McCaul
are its directors.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
"A YARD OF PANSIES."
A Gift to Every One of Our Readers

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fishers, we are enabled TO make every
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by return mail one OF these valuable
Works OF Art
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
A MAGNIFICENT PRIZE CONTEST.

In what year was tho famous old Liberty
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The Homo Jewel will give an elegant Chicken
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son answering the above question correctly:
two first-class round.trip railroad tickets TO
Chicago and return and admission tickets for
two to Worlds Fair grounds to witness dedi-
cation of buildings October 81, 1892, for each of
next two correct answers; O gold decorated
China dinner set for the fourth correct
answer.
An additional special prize. beautiful pair
OF gold and pearl opera glasses, will be given
for the first correct answer from each state
Zach person answering must send fifteen
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The Home Je,0el, the illustrated family paper
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The object of Offering these prizes Is to In
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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
COMPRISING Timber.

The compression of timber is be-
coming a growing industry, and the
material thus treated is being APP
piled to a variety of useful and or
namental purposes, especially in the
field of carving, most attractive and
artistic designs being thus brought
out, pronounced in many cases fully
equal if not superior to anything
ordinarily produced in that line.
The wood to be employed in this
manner is compressed either in its
natural condition or after being
stamped, and it is found that the
hardest, well-seasoned ash timber,
say of four inches thickness, can be
pressed into about three inches with
out iniuring the fiber. Moreover,
it is also found that wood can be
upset" the same as iron; and the
increased tenacity of bent and COM
pressed wood of this sort, as COM
pared with the same in it's natural
state, is declared to be something
surprising. In mechanical opera
tions compression is now applied to
spoke lemons, the work being de-
scribed as very simple and rapid, the
tenon properly tempered and ready
to drive to its place, an increased
being thus added to the
wheel equal to three additional
spokes.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
The Fuel Consumption on Ocean Steam.
erS.

Ocean steamers consume much
more fuel than the average person
is aware of. Take, for an instance,
the vessels of the Orient Line,
which make regular trips between
Australia and Great Britain. The
fastest steamer of that line is the
Austral, which makes the trip from
London to Sydney in thirty-fve
days. During the trip out she
never uses less than $3.50 tons of
coal, and on the return voyage Of
ten as much as 1000 tons. She has
three coaling stations, and bunkers
that will hold 1850 tons without
overcrowding. Atlantic 'liners"
like the Oregon consumes over 300
tons of coal per day between Liver
pool and New York.
A foreign exchange says the
Stirling Castle on recent voyage
to China brought back cargo of
1920 tons of tea but consumed
5000 tons of coal in making the
round trip from Liverpool. I'm
mense stocks of coal are constantly
kept on hand at st Vincent, Mad
EZRA, Port Said, Singapore and other
oriental coaling stations, there often
being as much as 100000 tons in
store at the last named place.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
Wednesday, Dec. IA, 1902.
The Worlds Largest Canals.

The largest canal on the globe is
the Imperial Canal, of China,
which is over 1000 miles in length.
The longest canal in Europe is the
canal of Languedoc, which connects
the Atlantic and Mediterranean,
and was completed in 1881. 1t is
14S miles long. The largest ship
canal in Europe is the great North
Holland Canal, completed in 1925,
which is very wide and deep, though
it is only 81 miles in length. The
Suez Canal is SO miles, of which 60
miles are actual canal. In the
United States, however, there are a
of canals Of notable length.
The Wabash and Erie Canal,
to the Ohio line, is 374
miles long. The Erie Canal is 35Oa
miles; the Ohio Canal, Cleveland to
Portsmouth, is 1872; the Miami and
Erie, Cincinnati to Toledo, 201
miles.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
RAILWAY Mail Service.

Capt. James f. White, general
superintendent Of the railway mail
service, in his annual report, says
that during the year ended June 30,
1892, the service handled and dis
tributed 0,245,775 pieces of mail
matter in transit, 325, $50, 100 pieces
prepared for city delivery and 49,
17S,6S5 pouches, cases and pieces of
registered matter, making the en-
ormous total of 9,5S9,5S9 pieces of
mail matter of all classes handled
and distributed, an increase of 1877
per cent oyer 1891. Of the 9,245,-
094, IT'S pieces of ordinary mail mat
ter handled and distributed only
/ ,891 $3.50 were incorrectly distri-
buted, showing but one error for
5,466 pieces handled. The public
however, was responsible for $685.
SOP pieces which could not be for
warded, owing to insufficient, in
correct or illegible addresses, and
of this large number Gan increase
of 2,066,346 over 1917, $751;
433 could neither be forwarded
to the persons addressed norreturn-
ed to the senders, owing to the alb
sence of information upon which
either could be located. Capt.
White renews his recommendation
for congressional action permitting
the Postmaster-General to pay the
sum Of $1,000 to the widow and
minor children of each permanent
clerk killed while on duty; for
additional provision for the injured;
renews his recommendation for
approximation" act; also, strong
ly renews his recommendation of
the clerical force, and asks for an
appropriation of 100000 to permit
the employment of a force of 100
clerks to be known as an auxiliary
crops.-Free Press.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
Real Estate Sales.

The following is a list of real estate
sales recorded during the past week
furnished at the abstract Office o.
O,Brien q Sleator.
w. l.. & ii. ID. Churchill to S. A.
Dawson, ST. int in W OF II Of 90, 81
2, Wilson township.
Z. X. Potter to c. L. Potter, $4,000, the
Potter mill premises" including mill
docks, tram, railway, etc.
County Treasurer to f. A. Kimball,
$3.50, taxes OF 1888, W OF Of 0, 81, Z
Maple Ridge township.
$3.50, taxes 1888, W ! Of Of 10, 81, 8
Long Rapids township.
$5.76, taxes 1888, Of Of 10, 81, g.
Long Rapids township.
County Treasurer to VIM. Snyder,
$A.13, 1S88-7-8, n Of Of 7, 81, G.
Long Rapids township.
County Treasurer to Fry II. Toland
$500, 1888, W Of 9 Of 30, 80, 8, Sanborn
township.
$500, 1883, II offs o OF 80, 20, 8, Sanborn
township.
$26.85, 1878, Of Of SO, 90, 8, San.
born township.
$500, 1888, n Q Of Of 20, 80, 8, Sanborn
township.
County Treasurer to Malinda Toland,
1867, 1888, W of "a, %, g, Sanborn
township.
County Treasurer to Alger, Smith g. Co.,
1926, 1887, Of N g of Is, 90, 7, Ossl-
neke township.
County Treasurer to N. j. Foley,
1868, $11.7O, s OF s o OF 10, 80, 5, Os-
sineke township.
$13,1s, 1ss6-7-s, W of W Of II, 30, s,
Ossineke township.
$25.O2, 1SS2-3-5-6-7-S, Of OF Is, 30,
8, Ossineke township.
County Treasurer to Boom Co.,
1924, 1885, II 1900 acres Of lot 1, H.
81, 8, Alpena township
Huron Lumber Co. to Samuel Holcomb
and Isaiah Hart, $3.50, n ! of W and o
Of Of IL, 30, z, Wilson township.
Isaiah Hart to Samuel Holcomb, $3.50,
interest, same as next above.
Edward Hutton to Sarah Z. Hutton, 81,
lot 10, block 11s, Fletcher's addition,
Washington avenue.
Thos. G. Adams to Z. o. Avery, 5000,
of and Of W OF 10, 81, 5, Long
Rapids township, and 800, W ! OF IL W, o
and W Of J Of W OILS, 81, 5, Long
Rapids township.
Northern Extract Co. to City Of Alpena,
81, 7-100 Of an acre OF land for street.
Samuel j. Tomlinson and Jos. B.
Moore to John j. Perren, 81 ,44O, of
W Of IA, ! ofne; sw Of Q, and ] Of
s Of Is, 20, s, Ossineke township.
John j. Perren to N. j. Foley, 81 ,02O,
same as next above.
ID. ID. Hanover to Lueian Kosnjk,
$277.60, lot 8, block 8, Wade's addition,
corner OF Beebe and Dock streets.
G. II. Reynolds and Jas. Shell TO city
OF Alpena, 81, part Of lots II and &c. block
10, Potter's addition, necessary for OPEN
ing of Walker street
Elisha Taylor to Jos. Z. Beaudoin,
$3.50, lot 6, block II, Taylor's addition,
Dawson street.
Samuel A. Dawson to w. l.. &'H. d.
81, interest Of OF W Of
30, 81, z, Wilson township.
q. F. Fletcher to Ada E. Bowler, $500,
lot 10, block 112, Fletcher's addition,
Seventh street.
A. N. Spratt to c. B. Greeley, 81, 80
in 30, s; 81, 8; and 90, 6,
Ossineke and Green townships.
John Laramey to David Turrel, $4OO,
lot ~, block rs, city, Miller street.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14

basis a credit trade was made with
Pennsylvania rolling mill for ten
miles Of rails. When they arrived
there wasn't money enough in the
treasury to pay the freight. But it
was got somehow. Ten miles of
track gave the foundation for bonds
which built forty miles more, and
so the system grew into its present
proportions. This man who built
the Arkansas Pass system rode from
San Antonio to Chicago, at one
critical period in his enterprise,
without cent in his pocket. He
had transportation, but he hadn't
anything to buy food, and he went
through hungry.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
Building a Railroad on Faith.

From South Texas came a man
who built 900 miles Of railroad with
five-dollar bill and faith, and the
bill was borrowed one. He moved
up from Corpus Christus to San An
tonic with all his possessions heaped
on a two-wheeled cart. He got q
charter to build railroad from San
Antonio to Arkansas Pass. He
graded mile Of it, throwing a good
deal more than one shovel full of
dirt with his own hands. The re-
ceiver of another road loaned this
indefatigable builder enough old
rails for mile of tract. In dis
tant part Of the state was purchased
an engine which had been con-
demned six years before and sent to
the shops to be wrecked for scrap
iron. Two old cars were picked up
somewhere else at bargain. And
that old engine, drawing those old
cars, steamed into San Antonio.
On engine and cars in bold letters
was painted in lamp-black, rs. and
A. p" With one mile Of old-rail
track and with the equipment of
the old engine and the two old cars,
Uriah Lott started the Arkansas Pass
system. There has been some tall
financiering in the history of rail-
road building in this country, but
there isn't anything which for daz-
zling pluck quite approaches the
story of the building Of this 600
miles Of road in South Texas. To
the one mile of track three were
added-three miles by a decker for
some secondhand rails which a
street car company had bought from
a narrow gauge company. On this
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
DROBATE ORDER.

State of Michigan, county of Alpena, IS.
At session of the Probate Court, for said coun-
ty, held at the Probate office, in the city of Apena,
on the 9th day of December, in the year one thou
sand eight hundred and ninety-two.
Present, Hon. Geo. NJ. Slusser, Judge of Probate.
In the matter Of the estate of Theodore Hegbert,
deceased.
On reading and fling the petition, duly verified,
Of John Hegbert, praying that administration of
said estate be granted to August II. Marwede or
some other suitable rerson.
Thoreupon II is ordered, that Monday, the 9th
day Of January next, at ten O'Clock in the
forenoon, be assigned for the hearing Of said petit
on and that the heirs at law Of said deceased and
oil other persons interested in said estate, are re-
quired TO appear at a session Of said Court, then
to DO holden in the Probate Office in the city of AL
pena, and show cause, IL any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioner should not be granted
And it is further ordered that said petitioner give
notice TO the persons interested in said estate Of
the tendency of said petition, and the hearing
thereof, by causing copy Of this order TO be pub
printed and circulated in said county, three sue
cessivc weeks previous TO said day of hearing.
"a true copy.l GEO. M. SLUSSER,
ll14wi Judge of Probate.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
Likely to be Disappointed.

The Detroit Tribune is greatly
troubled least the Democrats will
not be able to perform all that they
promised. The difficulty with such
hide-bound party organs is the fear
that the Democrats may, in good
faith and true craftsmanship, at
tempt so to do. Once the people
get a little daylight as the result of
tariff reform, they will never go
back to the support Of protection
robbery. Such high-tax organs
manifest great anxiety to have a
controlling influence over the policy
Of the new administration for evil
IDENTIFY sinister purposes. They
will likely be disappointed and dis
comfited.- Battle Creek Moon.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
George Prentiss, formerly a Mich

George Prentiss, formerly Mich
igan lumberman, in recent years a
lumber manufacturer and land own
er at Moorhead, in the Yazoo delta,
Miss, has become railway mag
nate. He is secretary of the Men,
phis & Yazoo City company, which
proposes to build a railway from
Yazoo City to Helena, Ark, passing
through Moorhead and Clarksburg.
C. II. Pond, of Moorhead, is. presi-
dent of the company. The line
will be 1870 miles long, and will
pass through rich section of tim
Der and agricultural land. Mr..
Prentiss, after passing through
some business tribulations in Mich
igan, removed to Coahoma county,
Miss, and, having secured tract
Of land in that vicinity, formed a
company and built a mill, which
mainly cut sypress. This was about
eight years ago. He was from the
first a firm believer in the natural
advantages of the Yazoo delta as a
rich timber and agricultural region,
and he has adhered to this view with
great tenacity. The railroad pro-
iect in which he is now interested
is intended as developing agency
for a region in the heart of the
delta that has, as yet, had meager
railway facilities. The road will
run through or contiguous to lands
east of the Sunflower river, held by
Mr.. Prentiss or his company. 1t
will open out new timber resources,
and, il built, will probably result in
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
Detroit Markets.

The following quotations are copied
from the Detroit Free Press
Apples, $500 to 1925 per barrel.
Butter. zoe to SOC per pound.
Live fowls, &C to &c per pound.
Live turkeys, &C to 1oc per pound.
Eggs, PIC to Csc per dozen.
Flour per barrel, 1913 to s4.75.
Hay baled, $1,000 to si1.OO per ton.
Oats per bushel. 34c to SIC.
Onions per bushel, s0.s5 to 5000.
Pork, si675 to $3.50 per Dbl.
Potatoes per bushel, Coo TO zoe
Wheat, 5000 to S0.74 per bushel.
The above quotations are mostly Of a
wholesale nature. The price at retail
stores is higher.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
The December Cosmopolitan.

In view OF the fact that Sir Edwin Ar.
mold will very likely DO the next poet.
laureate, one turns with interest to his
most entertaining article In the December
Cosmopolitan on Japanese Watering
Place." The same number contains sew.
eral portraits Of Tennyson and interest.
ing views Of his late home and surround
ings. Thos. German has penetrated the
mysteries Of the silent trappists' monas-
terry with profane kodak: Murat Hal.
stead discusses "Varieties Of American
Journalism;" Hermann throws Light
on the Black Art and Theodore Roosevelt
and Maurice Thompson each contribute
interesting articles. A feature OF the
number Is twenty-four portraits of
Partisan journalists, with sketches OF their
work. A curious bit Is found In tho con-
trast OF the double frontpieces which
adorn tho magazine-on ono side the
marvellous painting OF 1.-THE Conqueror,"
by Fritel, which attracted 80 much atten-
ton at the last Paris salon, and on the
other 1.-THE Conquered" by Anton Diet
rich; in the one the heroes of war moving
down the vista OF the centuries I'm mag
nificent array between CHASTITY lines Of
naked corpses, the other tho unfortunate
of all times and lands flocking beneath
the gentle hand Of the loving Christ. The
Cosmopolitan will mark its first edition
Of 10000 copies-that for January-by
the offer Of 1000 free scholarships. In
return for introducing the Cosmopolitan
into certain neighborhoods the Cospomol-
itan offers to any young man or woman
free tuition, board, lodging and laundry
at Yale, Vassar, Harvard, music, medi-
cine, or science. They send out PAM
phlet on application telling how to OBJ
tain one Of these free scholarships.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
A Long Step Forward.

In deciding the Lake Front case
against the Illinois Central Railroad
the Federal Supreme Court asserts
the sovereignty of the people in a
way that is, for that tribunal, novel,
though the tendency of its recent
decisions has been in this direction
and away from the doctrine of "con-
tract" by Justice Shiras in his min
GRITTY opinion in the present case.
The agreed facts of the case are
that one Legislature granted the
Illinois Central certain privileges,
by virtue Of which the railroad
claimed control of the Lake Front,
and that subsequent Legislature
repealed the grant.
The court holds that "any grant
of the kind is necessarily revocable,"
Justice Shiras dissenting and pro-
testing that such grants are con-
tracts.
Under this doctrine of contract the
greatest wrongs have been inflicted
by corporation bribery of legisla-
ture and county courts, and such
grants of money, land or bonds
have been enforced against the peo-
pie by the Federal courts even
where the use of fraud in obtaining
the concession could not be denied.
Now the Supreme Court says that
to concede the claim of the railroad
company to the Chicago Harbor
would put every harbor in the coun-
try at the mercy of a single Legis-
lature of the State in which it is
situated.
This is the argument advanced by
Justice Field, and it is not as strong
as the case warrants it may be be-
cause Mr.. Field was embarrassed by
prior opinions of his own in similar
connections.
The tenor and effect of the de-
cision is that the act of one Legis-
lature cannot bind the people for
ever; that when one Legislature
gives away the peoples property
without sufficient consideration an
other Legislature can take it back.
This is sound political economy at
the present stage of civilization,
and it is also sound law under our
feudal system of land tenures, un-
der which every little village cor
poration can take away a title in fee
simple.
If this can be done with the hold
ing of a sovereign" citizen, how
much more, then, with the grant to
a corporation, created merely as a
vassal of the State and holding all
rights in vassalage!
The Supreme Court, however,
with Justice Field to deliver it's
opinion, refrains' from going too
far towards the roots of the ques-
ton; but it decides, nevertheless, that
one Legislature may revoke grant
made to corporation by prior
Legislature. And shat, we take it,
is a long step forward.-St. Louis
Republic.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-12-14
Catarrh in New England

Ely's Cream Balm gives satisfaction to
every one using ii for catarrhal troubles.
g. X. Mellor, Druggist, Worcester, Mass.
believe Ely's Cream Balm is the best
article for catarrh ever offered to the
public. Brush g. Co., Druggist, Wor-
cester Mass.
An article of real merit.-C. p. Alden,
Druggist, Springfield, Mass.
Those who use it speak highly Of it,
Geo. A. Hill, Druggist, Springfield, Mass
Cream Balm has given satisfactory re-
sults,-W. Z. Draper, Druggist, Spring.
field Mass.