The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-09-08
WHOLE NUMBER 22i6.


The editor of the Northerner has in
his possession an interesting old docu-
ment, reading as follows: 81, Jedediah
Huntington, collector of the district of
New London, do hereby certify that Asa
Lanphear, an American seaman, aged
twenty-five years or Whereabouts, of the
heighth OF five feet, nine inches and a
half, of light complexion, has this day
produced to me proof, in the manner
directed in the act entitled An act for
the relief and protection of American
seamen,' and pursuant to the said act
| do hereby certify that the said Asa
Lanphear is a citizen of the United
States of America. In witness whereof,
| have hereunto set my hand and seal
of this office, this % day of May, 1901.
jed. huntington, Collector" Mr..
l-anphear was for many years promi-
nent resident of this village.
The new game law, which became
operative August 80, provides among
other things, that it shall be unlawful
to kill any fox squirrel, black squirrel or
gray squirrel except in the months of
October, November and December,
and that no person shall make use of
ferrets in hunting squirrels at any time
All hunters who have heretofore been
in the habit of pursuing the festive
squirrel with the nimble ferret will as
a matter of course, abandon so repre-
hensible practice. This will be
wonderful relief to the squirrel and
make it vastly easier for the ferret!
The statute also forbids the killing of
any wild turkey or wild pigeon any
where in the state at any season, until
the year 1905. The penalty for violat-
ing any provision of the game law is
fine of 80 to 1925, or Imprisonment in
the county jail from thirty days to six
months or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment, and the unlawful killing of
each animal or bird is made a separate
otfense. The fish laws were also
amended so as to permit the spearing
through the ice in the months of De-
cember, January, February and March
in all the inland lakes and streams Of
the state, except such as are protected
by local legislation, of all kinds of fish,
except trout, grayling, land.locked
salmon and black bass.
Sixty.two years ago last Thursday
afternoon, Mr.. Myron Hoskins, then "a
years of age, was married to Miss Sarah
$. Brown, 19 years, in the town of
Ogden Monroe county, n. Y, and the
next week they emigrated here, where
Paw Paw village now stands, and found
two small frame houses and very
small frame store, with few dry goods
and post office, just started, four log
houses and small frame barn with
wooden hinges. One of the frame
houses was where the Dodge house now
stands, and known as the Dodge tavern
where Mr.. and Mrs. Hoskins first found
home until they got settled in owe of
the log houses. Mr. Hoskins soon COM
menced work on what has been known
as the Gremps house from that day un-
til this, that was just commencing to be
built The following winter Mr.. Hos
kins made all the doors for contem-
plated hotel that was TO be attached to
the Dodge tavern, and also the doors
for house for himself, all by hand, as
there was no other way known TO make
doors at that time. Early next spriug
he built his own house, aud he and Mr..
James Prater's father built the big hotel,
an honor to any village. Later the
same summer, Mr.. Hoskins built the
upright part Of the house that Mr..
Drown now lives in. Such was the be-
ginning of Paw Paw. Later in '39 and
40, Mr. Iloskins helped build the big
Lllll anu WAS dJ WOIh III III Wucu luo
first bushel of grain was ground in
Van Buren county. Mr. HOskins and
wife are yet living in the east part OF
the village, enjoying as good health as
people generally do at their age.
The wholesale local option arrests of
the past few days have been the result,
as is well known, of the work of two
detectives, +. S. Persing and one Ben
ham. The friends of the alleged
violators of the law, in particular, have
been bitter in their denunciation of the
spoilers, as they call them, and the
claim has been made that they also
violated the local option law. This
talk found expression in the issuance
of warrants for both the men, by
Justice Delamere of South Haven. Con-
stable Reed of the same place arrested
Persing in Kalamazoo, Saturday, bring
ing him to South Haven late in the
afternoon. The justice set his exam
ination for Thursday and consigned him
TO the village lookup. And here the
hoodlum element at the metropolis"
got in its work. Saturday night, they
carried a hose to the stairway leading
to the lookup, which is a basement,
turned on the water from a hydrant
and left it running into the Jail all
night. Fortunately for Persing, the
basement leaked, and he was not harm
ed beyond the discomfort of passing the
night in room the floor of which was
covered with six or eight inches of
water Not content with this, on Sun
day night his prosecutors amused them
selves by throwing two large dynamite
firecrackers into the little prison. The
conclusion of the first explosion knock
ed Persing down, injuring his back and
laming him up considerably. The Sec
ond cracker was not so skillfully thrown
and did no harm, beyond filling the
Jail with a suffocating smoke. Monday
morning, Persing was brought to the
county Jail in Paw Paw, where he was
safe from such outrages. Yesterday
he was taken to Kalamazoo by the
sheriff, to secure bail Whether or
not the man is guilty of furnishing the
drink of whiskey to "Dicky" Beals as
charged, such treatment of prisoner
| in confinement is an outrage, and,
while it may not be true that the
prime movers in the effort to knock
out local option are responsible for
it, the action of the hoodlums at
South Haven is bound to have an effect
in the prospective election. Lawless-