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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-02-07
LEGAL NOTICES.
DRNBaTE C3OER.


j County OF Van Buren-ss.
Al session of the probate court for the county N
Van Buren,, holden at the probate offce, in the viii
lage of Paw Paw, Monday, The 29th day OF
January, In the year one thousand nine hundred:
Present, Hon. James II. johnson, Judge Of
Probate.
In the matter of the estate Of William
Austin, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified
of Ella Austin, widow of said deceased, praying
for therein stated that the administration
OF said estate may be granted TO Ella Austin or
some other suitable p. rsOu.
Tnerenpon II ~ ordered that Monday, the 26h day
of February 1900, AT teu o'clock IN the forenoon,
be assigned fol the hearing OF said petii A. ahd all
persons interested In said estate required 20 APP
pear at session of said court then TO be- holden at
the probate Office in the village OF Paw Paw, and
show cause, II any there he, why the prayer of the
petitioner should not be granted.
And il il fnrtheT ordered, That said petitioner
give notice TO the persons Interested IN said estate
OF the pendency of said petition, aud the hearing
thereof, by causing copy of tins order to be pub
lished u the True NortherneT newspaper printed
and circulating in said county of Van Buren,, for
three successive weeks least previous to saidday
o. hearing.
l3l1t4o44 LANES II. JOHNSON.
Ju,ise OF Probate.
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ORTGACE SALE.

wi been made in the payment of a certain sum of
money secured to be paid by indenture of mort
gage bearing date October Goth, 1897 made, execu-
ed aud delivered by Alexander w. Hendrck and
Harriet lIeDdrck his wife, of the city of Muskegon,
state OF Michigan, to Ella +. Woodland of Kalama-
zoo Michigan which mortgage was duly recorded
in the Office of the register of deeds for Van Buren,
county, state of Michigan, the 9th day of Novem-
ber 1897 at O'Clock m, in liber 81 of mortgages
on page 1873, and which mortgage was afterward on
about November ODD, 1897, duly assigned trans
ferred and delivered by the said Ella Il. Woodland
TO John r.. Woodland Of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and
which assignment recorded i'm the said registers
Office for Van Buren, county aforesaid, on the 5th
day of October 1892 at 1880 O'Clock p. m, In liber
&c of mortgages, on page 80, and the said John f.
Woodland, having departed this life testate, OH the
3lst day of January, 1899, then being resident of
Kalamazoo county, state of Michigan, and the
undersigned Lucy 3. Woodland, having been subse-
quently duly appointed executrix of the will and
estate of said John +. Woodland, deceased, by the
probate court for said Kalamazoo county, which
office she now holds. and as such having I'm her
possession the aforesaid mortgage, with the author
ity to foreclose the same and no proceedings at law
or in equity having been instituted by any person to
recover the sum so secured by and remaining unpaid
upon said mortgage or any part thereof, and upon
which mortgage there is claimed TO be due to the
tate of said John f. Woodland deceased, at the date
of this notice for principal and interest," the sum OF
five hundred sxtythree and 29-1OO dollars, and for
taxes paid by the undersigned upon the premises
described In said mortgage, being reassessed in the
year 1899 for the year 1897, sixteen and S21O0 dol
lars.
Notice Is therefore hereby given that by virtue of
the power of sale In said mortgage contained and In
pursuance of the statute In such made and
provided, the land and premises described In said
mortgage towit: All that certain piece parcel of
land situate I'm the township Of Almena, In the
county Of Van Buren, and state of Michigan, and
described as follows, towit: The south half of the
southwest quarter of section number twenty (20l in
township two (2) south of range thirteen ll3) west,
excepting acres off of northwest corner ly-
ing north and west of Paw Paw river, will be sold
at public vendue TO the highest bidder, the north
front door OF the court house, in the village OF Paw
Paw, I'm said Van Buren, county, (said court house
beng the place of holding the circuit court for said
Van Buren, county, on the 9th day of April, A. ID.
1900, at ten O'Clock IN the forenoon, TO pay the
amount due on said mortgage and the costs Of this
foreclosure allowed by law.
Dated January 5th, 1900.
LUCY 3. WOODARD,
Executrix of the will and estate Of John Il. Wood
ard, deceased.
A. M a q. III. STEARNs, 38t13o5o
ATTORNEYS for Execurix.
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A Bright Jeweler.

A gentleman tells the following joke
on a jeweler: A young man who was
on the verge Of matrimony went to the
teweler and bought ring and left in
structions that in 1t be engraved the
legend, "From A to H." which, being
interpreted, meant from Anthony to
Zenobia. To his establishment, on call
ing for the ring the next day he found
1t engraved like an Egyptian obelisk
and on closer examination found that
the jeweler had PITT the whole alpha
bet from A TO II on It,
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MORTGAGE

MORTGAGE SALE Default having
wi been made i'm the conditions of GER
tain ndenture Of mortgage, bearing date the 7th day
of September, A. ID. 1895, executed by John Har-
boldt and Eva Harbodt his wife, of Columbia town
ship, Van Buren, county, Michigan, TO the First
National Bank of Paw Paw, Michigan, Ga corpora
ton organized and doing business under and by
virtue of the laws of the United States whereby the
power of sale In said mortgage cohtslned has be-
come operative; and IL being expressly agreed In
said mortgage that should any defani he made I'm
the payment of any instalment of interest prin-
cipal, or any part thereof, and should he same
main unpaid and I'm arrears for the of thirty
days after any such instament is due nd payable,
then at the option Of said second psliy much Of
the principal sum OF said mortgage remains I'M
paid, with all arrearage of interest a. reon, may be
declared due and yable immediat, default hav-
ing been made In an nstallmen of 81 90 of interest
due October 1, A. ID. 1899, and tine same having
remained unpaid for the period of thirty days and
clared and hereby does declare the whole amount of
said mortgage to be due and pay able.
Now, therefore, notice IL hereby given that the
property described I'm said mortgage, much
thereof may be to satisfy the amount due
said mortgage and the expenses of this sale. in
Guiding attorney g fee of twenty dollars s25l
covenanted for I'm said mortgage the amount due
on said mortgage being 1--WE hundred ninety-seven
and twenty-seven one-hundredths dollars S597.2
will be sold at public auction 10 the highest bidder
at the front door of the court house i'm the village Of
Paw Paw, on Friday, the 2nd day of March, A.
ID. 1899, at ten O'Clock A. mr. the property described
In said mortgage teiug in the township of Column
ba, Van Buren, county, Michigan and described as
follows: The south east quarter OF the north east
quarter OF section fifteen, in town south, range
fifteen west, Van Buren, county, Michigan.
Dated Noveml er 30, A. ID. 1899.
THEFIRsT NATIONAL BANK or PAW Paw, MICHIGAN,
O. W. ROWLAND, Mortgage.
Attorney for mortgage l33tl3o4o
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ORDER FOR NEARING CLAIMS

y State OF Michigan, County of Van Buren-ss.
Notice is hereby given, that by order of the
probate court for the county of Van Buren,, made
on the 9Th day of January A. ID. 1900, six months
from that date allowed for creditors present
their claims against the estate of Carssa s. ebring,
late of said county, deceased and that all creditors
of said deceased required TO present their claims
to said probate court at the probate Office ia the viii
lage of Paw Paw, for examination and allowance, on
before the 9th day of July, A. ID. 1900, and
that such claims will be heard before said court
Monday, the 9th day of April, A. ID. 1900. and on
Monday, the 9th day of July, A. ID. 1900, at ten
o clock i'm the forenoon of each of those days.
Dated, January 5th, 4. ID. 1900. }8t5o42
JAMES II. JOHNSON Jud of Probate.
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ORDER FOR HgAsiNa CLAIMS.

~ state Of Michigan, County OF NaN Buren-ss.-
Notice is hereby given, that by order of the
the 25th day of January, q. ID. 1900 months from
that date allowed TOR creditors to present their
claims against the estate of Emily NJ. Scott,
late of said county,g deceased, and that all cred
itors of said dectBseu required TO present
their elaine 10 sid probate court, at the probate
office, In tn Village of Paw Paw, for examination
and allowance on or before the goth day of July,
A. ID. I9oo, ssud that such claims viii be heard
before saif ,ourt, on Monday, the 3oth day of
April, A. El9oo and on Monday. the goth day OF
July. A. ~. LOGO at ten o'clock in the forenoon
of each OF those days.
Dated. January 9Th, \. ID 1000. lilt5o45
JAMES ii. JOHNSON, Judge of Probate.
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pRosATE oRDER-state of Michig,


j County of Van Bur .n-ss.
At a session of the probate court for the County
of Van Buren,, holden at the probate Office in the
village of Paw Paw, Friday, the 10Th day of
January, in the year one thonsf nd nine hundred:
Present, Hon. James n. Johnson, Judge of
Probate.
II the matter of the estate 81 Harry ID. Long
well, deceased.
On reading and filing tn l-.i'ipu, duly verified, of
George w Longwell, one OF "a reirs-at-law of said
deceased praying for stated, that the
court adjudicate and determ who at the
time OF his death, the lawui Ia IRIS of said deceas ed
and entitled to inherit the real in said petition
described.
Thereupon IT is ordered thai Monday, the Goth day
of February. 1900 at O'Clock in the forenoon, be
assigned for the hearing of said petition and all per-
interested in said estate required to appear
at session of said court, then to be holden at the
probate Office, in the village of Paw Paw, and show
cause any there why the prayer of the petitioner
should not be granted.
And il is further ordered that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate of
the tendency of said petition, and the hearing there
Of by causing copy of this order to be published
III the True Northerner, a newspaper printed and
circulating in said county of Van Buren,, for three
successive weeks AT least previous to said day of
hearing.
4lt4o44l JAMES II. JOHNSON. Judge of Probate.
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The Probable Reason.

The Clergyman (proudly)-People are
loath to leave my church. Why, after
services, it is fully Is minutes before
the edifice is emptied!
The Sinner don't wonder at that.
Some people are very hard to awaken!
Brooklyn Life.
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1t was the custom of the Greeks to
offer beets on a silver tray to Apollo in
his temple at Delphi. Lord Bacon
loved the onion so that he declared the
rose would be sweeter planted in a bed
OF them.
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BY the aid of mechanical instruments
human beings can do many wonder
full things. but to save his life no man
could cut such perfect circle without
a pair of compasses as the parasol ant
does out of leaf with nothing but
her laws.
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One would better be trustful of 80
friend vii, are false than doubtful OF
one who IL true. Suspicion and super
sqnsitiveness are at once the badges
and the bane OF little soul
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Hetrle = SO jyou really think that
GEORGE Is In hove with your
Edith--Oh. I am sure OF IL! You
should hear some OF the mean things
he says about you and the rest of the
girls In our set.-Boston Transcript.
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prOHtIess.

Miss Chicago - Money talks, you
know.
Culture makes no concession TO the To-
quacity of lucre.-Boston Courier.
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The Byzantine princes played a game
which differed very little from our
modern polo
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-02-07

rhe choral service was first used In
England al Canterbury in 677
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-02-07

Tho noonufacture OF quinine was be-
IL Philadelphia by John Farr in
- year of Its discovery.
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f's'.ss y rother. have wronged you. for
l,..ve Earned that. without knowing IL.
Evou are not far from the kingdom Of
heaven
"It is who have wronged you ex-
claimed his partner. lin assuming that
you would not obey the teaching OF
your Master to feed the hungry and
clothe the naked. Let us hereafter live
as brothers indeed. even though we
may not be able to profess the same
creed. And may the unknown God
whom ignorantly we worship accept us
Mt the last
'These two good men gave me a
start and were my dearest friends un-
I'll they died. The moral Of 1t all?
Well. think there is more goodness
I'm the world than can be enshrined In
any creed. however true."-New York
Tribune.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-08-05

Postoffice News Stand, ,reopened by A. L. Ritter, stationery, magazines etc. 2 IS nm
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-08-05
Skagwayans Occupy a Prom
 inent Place at Nome.
IN OFFICIAL POSITION
Many Are Employed in Postoffice City Government and Federal Po- sitions-They Are Represented in All Branches of Business.

w. C. Mar1urger, who has returned from Nome, says that city is filled with Skagwavans, many of whom are doing we'll and some not so well. Some of them are in official positions. ard all are giving evidence of profting from their experience in this city. MT. Marburger says:
 'ExMavor John Stanley is deputy U. s. marshal.
 "Dr. J. Allen Honsbv is city physician and has charge of all the smallpox cases.
 "Dr. Searl is practicing medicine and said to be doing well.
 "Gen, Turner and M. B. Stevens are practIcing law, and interested in some min ing deals. Mrs. Stevens is with her hus- band, they will put the winler in there.
 Miss Spencer is running store for j.. s. Graham, of Seattle.
 ''H. L. Harding, who was once in the feed business in Skagwav. is trading in anything. He and Frank Johnson and Charley Caldwell, Skagwav packers, took some mules to Nome. and sold them at good profit before taking them off the steamer,
 "A S. Dautrick is representing the Dod- well steamers. Tacoma and Olympia. He is one of the busiest men in Nome and is happy
 "E. A. Hegg has photograph gallery there.
 70. E. Kelly is making a fortune. He has the best location in the city, but pays $4so month ground rent for It.
 Capt. Johnson Is in the barge business and is coinng money.
 "D. Mckinney, for whom Mckinney street, now Fifth avenue, was named. is in the real estate business. He has two buildings, one of which is occupied by Buck & Riley. wholesale liquor dealers. They have leased it fol four years at $45o per month.
 "Feltz, the tent man sold his entire outfit and went below.
 ''Chares Sengfeder is making money at his trade writing signs.
 "l saw C. E. Runner, but did not learn what he was doing.
 "J. D. Thaggard, the we'll known Atlin and Dawson saloon man, Is running the Hunter saloon and dance hall and making money
 Ramps Peterson, who took the first consignment of liquors across the Whit, Pass to Dawson, is running big saloor on one of the principal streets.
 ''Lafe Hamilton, who made fortuna out of the Willie Irving on the Yukon is a Nome. He took fifty mules up, but go there after the boom in horse flesh ha, spent itself. He had the mules when lief and will probably take them back to tn Sound.
 "Frank Simonds had arrived at Nom and was expecting the balance of his part, soon.
 | Capt. F. N. Seiberg was in mining an( real estate business.
 Miss Brown, Bert Brown, kolash an( Boscow were in the postofflce.
 'Church X Day were practicing law and dealing in real estate. l did not SC Norman R. Smith who went there wtl Church.
 "' Mormon Joe' Moore was running
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-08-05
Judge Sehlbrede Given Jur-
 isdictiOn Over Haines.
IS ALSO REAPPOINTED
Presidential Appointment Strength
 ened by that of One From Judge Brown Authority Given to App point Deputies to Receive Filings.

Charles A. Sehlbrede has just been named by United Staets District Judge Melville C. Brown as United States com missioner for the Skagway district MT. Sehlbrede was appointed commissioner here little over two years ago by President Mckinley, and has year to serve under that appointment. The appointment there fore, at the hands of Judge Brown, doubv secures MT. Sehlbrede as to the position. However, the appointment by Judge Brown may be terminated at the pleasure of the court.
 The other commissioners in the district have all been reappointed with the excep- ton of the one at Sitka, the change in re- gard to which was chroniced in this paper yesterday.
 The commlssionership at Haines has been abolished, and Judge SehIbrede given jurisdiction over Haines, and territory up the Dalton trail fifteen miles beyond Haines. A commissioner George Girton, is named to have jurisdiction in hearing cases and the like in the Porcuplne district, but Is not recorder. All documents necessar, for recording must be sent to Mr. Sehl brede. However. MT. SehIbrede is gver authority to name deputy recorder a Porcupine or elseWher, in his district wht may receive fees and accept filings an( forward them to Skagwav for recording b, Sehlbrede
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-08-05
Thieves Get Away With
 $500 100.
NO TRACE TO CULPRITS
Joseph Rapuzzi's Store Entered in Broad Day Light and the Till Tapped While He Takes n Siesta-- Mrs. Ferguson a Loser.

Two robberes in the last three days, and no trace to either of them are among the troubles of the officials and certain 
 Joseph Rapuzzl, keeper of Broadway fruit store, Is one of the victims, and Mrs, Pauline Ferguson, proprietor of the Eureka chop house on the sane thoroughfare, is the other RapuZzi lost $40 in money and several dollars worth of cigarettes. plug tobacco and rare chercots. Mrs. Ferguson says she lost S26o in money. John Evans was arrested on charge of taking the money but discharged.
 Rapuzzi als to sleep in an easy chair in his store when business Is not rushing. He fell to sleep Thursday at D. m. He then sat at the head of his counter. The store doors were wide open. Rapuzzi's siumber was sound and sweet. He was dreaming perhaps of $4o in cash in the money drawer beneath the counter At any rate he says he was to buy clothes for himself and three "kids"-hls team of goats not included. When he awoke from his slumber one of his children asked for some change. Rapuzzi was about to open his heart. when on opening his til he found the money gone. He was mvstlfied In vestigation proved nothing more than that come of the tobacco was also gone from the store shelves. Then Rapuzzi reported to the police. but no trace has been secured as to the thieves. He thinks perhaps longshoreman who knew he indulged in in sestas, watched the opportunity, and rob ed him while he slept.
 Mrs. Ferguson made complaint to the marshal she had lost S2oo which she had left in her bed upstairs over the chop house. She suspected John Evans, who had been staying at her house under the name of Burnett. Evans wife had been staying there helping the andladv several weeks. She came here before her husband and took the name of Burnett, she said, thinking she would do better in earning her way If people thought her single. Evans arrived from below on the last Seattle. He re- mained at the Eureka few days, and was about to go away on the Cottage City, it
 is said, when Mrs. Ferguson discovered her money was gone, and had him arrested. Judge Sehlbrede heard the case yesterday, and being unable to find grounds against Evans dismissed him. Evans had letters and papers as evidence of having come from a good family and of having been valued emplove in other towns. He for> merlv lived in South Dakota, Iowa and in Denver.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-08-05

The supper given in the Y. M. C. A.. hall by the ladies auxiliary of the asso- citation Wednesday was one of the biggest successes of the season. More than goo partook of the good things served, and then adjourned to the gymnasium, where basket ball matches were held between teams of young of young men and young women. Ice cream was served during the progress of the games. The crowds were enthusiastic over the games, and shouted ustilv as the contestants executed brill- ant plays. The net proceeds of the affair were in the neghborhood of one hundred dollars.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-08-05

Mrs. A. H. Bracket returned during the week from visit to Atlln. She was ac> companied home by MT. Thos. Brackett, svlf. eag,s- -l,,-t,,, A. short visit %Ytss ssAas
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-08-05
dice game at the Hub saloon.

dice game at the Hub saloon.
 John Cruise, The South Carolina Kid is prospecting. He was packer here.
 "Dlck Fleming and Joe Meyer were par ading the streets. They claimed to have a great mining scheme on.
 Johnny Wright, formerly with the American tallors was employed in the United States Commissioners office.
 Lon Tinsley. who was long connected with the Occidental hotel and Roy Will iamson, of the Pack Train saloon are tend> ing bar at the Ocean.
 Dr. Whiting had opened an office, but did not stay long. He left on the News boy for Seattle.
 Billy Blackwell is running a game at the Warwick saloon and o. s. Williams formerly of the Reception saloon, is tend ing bar there."