The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1898-11-19
MICHIGAN MINUTES.

George w Sutton of Flushing town
ship, Genesee county. harvested 1iO'
bushels of potatoes from six and a quartz
acres of land.
F. \. Ryckman has on exhibition +
winter radsh weighing twenty-five
pounds grown on his farm near Popple
Huron county.
Considerable gold coin, which is sup.
posed To have been part of the booty Sc
cured in the Richland bank robbery. ha;
been recovered by Sheriff Snow of kala
mazoo, and is now i'll his possession. II
was found near MiShawaka, Ind
Six thousand barrels Of apples pur
chased from the farmers of the vicinit!
have been shipped from Mindcn City thi>
fall. putting something over $1,000 i'll tn,
pockets of the farmers, rs the avcrag,
price paid for the fruit on the trees wa.
about S1.2o.
Land III Huron county is very produc
tive. Herman Nahle of Sehewaing raise,
forty-four bushels of carrots and hin,
bushels of potatoes on a piece of land 1W
feet square. and Mathew Goodwill of Col
fax threshed 415 bushels of beans from
twenty-three acres.
A La Grange grape grower kicks be
cause a neighbor living about Il mil,
away keeps many swarms of bees. Which
are in the habit of flying over his vine
yards and feasting on his fruit. He est
mates that they spoiled about ten tons OF
grapes for him the past season.
The chances are that Metropolitan il
Dickinson county VIII be added to the lis
of dead lumber towns i'll Michigan. The
Metropolitan Lumber company. the bust
ness mainstay of the village, has shu
down its mill there for good. having GU
all the pine in the vicinity. The Stor,
has also been closed. and the company il
preparing to abandon the town.
The Minden Herald tells of strang'
| thing which occurred near there last week
| \ certain lady owns Il horse and Il COW
which are kept in stalls side by side. Th,
COW WAS reaching with her tongue be
| tween tEEo boards for some hay in tn,
| her impudence she is now minus abou
| four inches of her tongue. which was Bit
| ten off by the horse.
The Carsonville peamll. which is do
| ing an extensive business this fail. ha:
| sent out among the farmers for 10000
| bushels of peas.
| Many lynx. Wildcats, bears. wolve:
and other wild animals are coming or
and prowling around lumber camps il
| Montmorcncy. bgemaw, Oscoda and 9th
| ct northern counties.
| Land Commissioner French offere,
$500 acres of state lands for sale at pub
|
! at prices ranging from S123 to IS pc
acre. The remainder Of the lands vii
| he disposed of ut private sale.
| Michigan raised the greatest crop o
| wheat i'll its history this year, over so.
001O0D bushels
Ed Crippen Of the township of Sprin:
| Arbor. near Jackson. has started Il Skunl
farm eleven miles from Jackson and al
ready has thirtytive of the little ami
mails. He expects to contribute largel,
To the supply of Alaska sable" next sea
son.
A large number of deer have alread,
been killed in the woods around Yves
Branch. Alger. St. Helena. Crawling
StandiSh and other places.
An awakening is taking place aIon
the Ontonagon copper range. where las
| spring WAS a population of 800. 1t is e>
timated that 5000 men will shortly be en-
ployed. Everyone in ontonagon count
is buying copper stocks. The ground i
this vicinity is rich in the metal but trans
portation facilities have heretofore bee
| poor.
An important decision has been give
by tho Supreme court III relation To tn
tax title law. which provides that tn
holder of Il tax deed cannot take the prol
| "rty until six months after the tax sale.