The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-27
NEWSOFOUROWNSTA TH
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO NICHE.
OANDERS.
Pottawatomie Indians Get n Big Sum a
Money-Crop Reports Are Fiattering-
Lived $4,000 Too Fast-Monroe County
Will Keep Her Tramps.


In the morning. Now they are going ia
pay out several thousand dollars for
Jail that will hold the scamps, and this
will entail the expense of keeping the
criminal courts running from New Years
to Christmas.
w. Il. INVESTIGATE, son of A. w. West
gate, an ex-Congregational minister, q
real estate and insurance agent, of Al
pena, has absconded, leaving his part
ner, John j. Paterson, about $4,000
worse off than nothing. He left about
two weeks ago to visit friends near
Jackson, and his extended absence led
to an investigation which showed the
deficit. A letter announced that he will
never return. High living and liquor
ere responsible for it.
The remnant of the Pottawatomie
tribe OF Indians, who are domiciled in
Southwestern Michigan, have received
notice from Washington that their long,
pending claim against the United States
has been allowed by the Court of
Claims, and that the money will soon
be distributed. The amount as adjusted
is $50, 626, which will be divided among
241 surviving members OF the tribe.
These Indians still retain their tribal
organization, the present chief being
Simon Pokagon, son of the noted chief
tain OF the same name.
ACCORDING to the Michigan monthly
crop report for July, it is estimated that
the total yield of wheat will reach a.
9l2, 1897 bushels. The yield per acre in
the southern four tiers OF counties is
1916 bushels, central 14.35, and fifteen
bushels in the northern. The area this
year is nearly 100, 900 acres greater than
in 1891. The yield in 1891 was 26, $685.
672 bushels, or an average OF 1915
bushels per acre. The total number Of
bushels Of wheat reported marketed in
! June was 1 ,16S, S47, and for the eleven
preceding months 16. 065, 1904, which is
1,1S3,473 greater than in the same
period last year. Injury is reported in
all the southern counties from weevil
and Hessian fly, in the central from
heavy rains and rust, while no damage
from any cause Is reported from the
northern counties. The area planted to
corn is % per cent. less in the southern
and II in the central than that of aver
age years. It's condition in the southern
counties is 10, central II, and northern
81 per cent. The area in potatoes is e8
per cent of an average, and the south
ern counties is SO, central and northern
104 per cent. Meadows and pastures are
in fine condition. The prospects for
fruits are less flattering than last month.
Apples have fallen off in the southern
counties to As, central "a, and northern
80 per cent. Of an average crop. Peaches
are reported at so, SO, and "a per cent.
in the several localities respectively.
The figures taken from the farm Stats
tics show the number of sheep in 900
townships on May to have been $751;
1877, an increase of 3,216 over last year.
The total clip in the State this year will
| be about II, 80 900 pounds.
PAUL CROFT, 20 years of age, slipped
from boom of logs at Rogers City and
was drowned
j. II. SIPLEY, of Lansing, died of
paralysis, superinduced by la grippe, at
st. Ignace, on Monday.
CHARLES A. MILLS, Mayville
farmer, 81 years of age, fell into well
Sunday evening and was drowned.
LANSING wants bridge across Grand
River at Franklin street, and on the I'd
prox. will vote upon the question of
raising So, 900 in bonds for that purpose.
SOMEONE entered the room OF H. C.
Knell, of Port Huron, at the Bancroft
House, Saginaw. and stole $500 from his
pantaloons pocket. The door was left
unfastened by Mr.. Knell's roommate,
who departed early to catch a train.
The earnings of Michigan railroads
for the month of April were So, 057 .273 so;
for the corresponding month of 1891,
| 81, 49,, 49S. SO; total earnings from Jan. l
to May l, $32 1874, 031. SO, an increase Of
81, 1897 ,203.47 over the same period of
1891.
AT Saginaw, Mrs. VIM. Davis, aged
33, was found lying on the floor of her
room dead. The deceased was ballet
dancer at the Winter Garden Variety
Theater. The supposition is that death
was caused by heart disease. Her home
was in Pittsburg.
In the Jackson County Poor House
there is an old lady in her Goth year
who spends most of her time grooming
over her Bible. When her husband
died eleven years ago she sold her farm
for $4,000, and divided the money
among her five children, all of whom
are married and reside within a few
miles of the almshouse where their
| mother is pauper. Will Cartoons
over the Hills TO The Poor House" was
no fiction after all.
CORA NORRIS, an 1S-year-old girl.
whose father lives at Kalamazoo, Eaton
County, went 10 Lansing about two
months ago. Recently she engaged as
a domestic in the house of a woman
named Margaret Maroney. The other
pain upon the floor from the effects of a
dose OF aconite supposed to have been
administered by her own hand. She
may yet recover, but is in q critical con-
dition.
| j. III. BURNHAM, manager OF the
Rhodes Gold Cure Institute at Port
Huron, writes that Joe Miller, under
arrest there for shooting at n saloon
keeper, was not given whisky there and
was not frenzicd by treatment. He was
| given an injection in the morning, was
then very drunk, but promised to drink
no more. The shooting was done at
p. m. Mr.. Burnham saw him few
moments before the shooting, and he
was then very drunk.
JOHN CAREY. prominent Jackson
citizen. and well known among horse
men in the country as the owner Oh
Michigan's great trotting stallion June
mont is dead.
A MAN named George Palmer, en-
| route from Wilkesbarre, Pa, to Chica.