Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-23

The Pere Marquette Railway Com
pany, capitalized az $26 000. 900, has filed
articles Of association with Secretary Of
State Stearns. The object of the cor
poration Is stated TO be TO acquire the
rights, privileges. property and franchises
Of the Flint and Pere Marquette. De-
troit, Grand Rapids and Western, and
Chicago and West Michigan Railway
Companies. The stock is divided into
SIC, 100000 common and $12, 600 900 pre-
ferred, and a preferential dividend of 4
per cent. Is provided on the preferred
stock, this to be paid before any dividend
is paid on the other. The directors of the
new company are: Charles NJ. Head,
James X. Howard, Uriah b. Rogers and
Russell Wallace of Grand Rapids; s. Il.
Grape, Clark s. Mcmillan, III. G. Potter
Jr., Arthur Patriarch, Edwin Saunders
and j. Il. Simpson of Saginaw, and Fred
erick A. Minis OF Muskegon-
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Game Warden Morse has filed his Oc-
tober report. He says that 900 cases
have been investigated, including those
now pending, with results as follows:
Sixty-five guilty, not guilty, 5 dis
missed and A still pending; Al Of which
were for violation of the fish laws, "a for
violation Of the game laws, and Z for in
terfering with deputy wardens. This lat
ter offense Is new feature, the most OF
them being for refusing to allow deputy
wardens to examine game coats and
game bags, and the warden says he b
glad 70 say that every case Of this char
acter tried has resulted i'm a prompt con-
viction and the administering Of COM
mensurate punishment. The total amount
Of fines and costs imposed for the month
were $79O.5O, and the total value of seiz-
ures $297.6O.
Quite a sensation was created in legal
circles by the filing in the Supreme Court
by Dairy and Food Commissioner Gros-
venOr of an application for q rehearing
of the case of the People VS.. Duffy,
which was decided by that court six
months ago. the opinion Of the court be-
ing that the pure food law does not pro-
hibit the artificial coloring Of oleomar
garinN In his application Commissioner
GrOsvenor declares that in its recent de-
cisiOn the court entirely overlooked, mis-
understood and misstated the theory of
his BRIEF and ''entirely overlooked the
gravamen Of the offense charged in the
complaint" He also insists the decision
is wholly at variance with two decisions
previously rendered
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The Supreme Court the other day to all
practical purposes declared the so-called
Eikhoff home rule law unconstitutional.
The mandamus proceedings brought
against the Detroit Common Council in
which the question Of the constitutionali-
ty OF the law was involved was argued
before the court by Judge III. III. Hatch,
who represented the parties attacking
the law, and Isaac NJ. Payne, who de-
Tended the measure, appeared for the
Common Council. The law was passed
by the celebrated Legislature Of the pres
ent year, and was intended to convey
upon the Common Council Of Detroit cer-
tain powers in the matter of legislation
which should become effective after be-
ing submitted to a vote of the people.
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1t appears that one of the things which
Gov. Pingree recently discussed with the
State Military Board was Michigan's war
claim against the general government.
1t will be remembered that Gov. Pingree
and the military board spent about half
a million dollars putting Michigan's quota
Of troops in the field, and they expected
to get the bigger part of 1t back from the
general government. The government
has allowed only $4,000.
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State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion Jason Il. Hammond has appointed
boards OF visitors to make an inspection
of the business and medical colleges Of
the State which are Incorporated under
the laws Of the State. He is desirous OF
| encouraging the better classes of bust
ness colleges of the State to work togeth-
| er for legislation that will raise the
standard of these institutions.
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The State Board of Medical Examin-
| ers has decided that physicians may de-
posit their diplomas and certificate with
any member of the board instead Of hav-
ing to go to Lansing or Detroit to seek
the Secretary. As the board members
| are well scattered geographically about
the State, this will be a great convenience
and save time and expense to the doctors.
State Items of Interest.
The smallpox quarantine at Marine