The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-04-05
REPUBLICANS VICTORIOUS
So Far as the State Ticket is
Concerned.
ESTIMATED PLURALITY $4,000.
Indications are That Both Constitutional
Amendments Have Been Lost-The Van
Burea County Seat Fight Resulted In .
Victory for Paw Paw.
Republicans Win In the state.

Reports from correspondents through
out the state, show very light vote,
as compared with the vote cast at the
last presidential election, but indicate
that the Republican candidate for JUS
tice of the supreme court, Robert Nj.
Montgomery, and the Republican can.
didate for regents, Frank w. Fletcher
and Henry w. Carey, will be elected
by an estimated plurality of $4,000.
The vote will not fall much below that
of two years ago, when Justice Grants
plurality was 81, 34S. The returns on
the Legislative salary amendment and
the Bay county court amendment are
meager. but indications are that both
are lost Probably the most interest
ing fight in the state was over the Van
Buren, county seat. According to re-
turns from Is out of 20 townships, Paw
Paw wins victory by 497 votes. More
votes were cast in this county than at
presidential election. At Lawrence,
Il banner, on which were the words
Vote for South Haven" was torn
down and dragged through the streets.
Queer Work of the Wind and Sand.
How to stay the advance of Creep
ing Joe" is the problem that is bother
ing the authorities of Manistee, and
unless it can be solved the city water
works plant and number of hand
some residences will before many years
be buried in sand. Creeping Joe" is
the local name of high ridge of sand
which extends along the shore of Lake
Michigan the whole length of that
city. The winds from Lake Michigan
are continually blowing the sand from
the top of the ridge down the inland
side of it, and blowing other sand from
the wide beach up to the summit, with
the result that the ridge is steadily
travelling further and further from the
shore. At present it separates the res
idence portion of the city from the wa
ter front, and has advanced so far that
several residences will have to be re-
moved or else abandoned to be buried
by the sand The city's water works
plant is in the same predicament.
Away back in the days when Manis-
tee was a village, a cemetery was plat
ted at the top of the hill and quite IA
number of burials made there. Sew
eral years ago the city authorities, an
ticipating that the action of the wind
on the sand would before long disinter
the bodies, eXhumed as many of them
as could be found and transferred them
to the presentcemetery. Many of them,
however, could not be located. and the
unusually severe storms of the past
winter have uncovered some of these,
so that the bones lie scattered about
on the surface of the ground.
The Grand River has reached the
danger limit at Grand Rapids, being
over IL feet above the normal level. A
dozen factories on its banks are idle
being completely surrounded by water
A terrific wind and rain storm did
considerable damage at Adamsville
and was accompanied by huge water
spout which sucked all of the water
from the bed OF Christiana Creek.
High water in the st. Joseph river
has forced some of the big paper mills
at Niles to shut down, throwing 200
men out of work.
A cyclone passed over Flint on the
25th and did considerable damage TO
farm property.
The Pere Marquette line between
Saginaw and Grand Rapids has two
big washouts.
Cracked the safe and Got $40.
The safe in the Office of the Holly
Milling Co. was looted early on the
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