Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-02-28
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

Deputy Game Warden Trudell, of
Bay City, and Sheriff Landon, of Isa-
bella county, arrested two hunters
near the Midland county line for shoot
ing deer.
The timely arrival of neighbors
saved Judd S. Simpson. of Lansing,
from an untimely death in the flames
of his burning home The family were
away at the time.
AS Claude Blood. aged % years, of
Cassopolis, stepped from in front of
an eastbound freight train on the
Grand Trunk tracks he was run down
and killed by a westbound passenger
train.
Clarence Lang, a prominent young
man of Wahjamega, is dead from an
illness considered trifiing. He had ton
silitis and was improving when at
tackled with a coughing spell and ex-
pired in few moments.
II is very probable that there will
be no county fair in Sebewaing this
year and for that matter the county
fair fever is rapidly dying out in the
Thumb. Home coming parties are said
to be much more popular
The Isabella County Letter Carriers
association was organized February %,
with "a members. Col. c. V. r. Pond,
special rural mail service examiner. is
riding over the routes with intent to
reconstruct some of them.
Two short-change artists came TO
grief in Battle Creek when William
Kelly and Edward Williams were
caught in the act in grocery store
and locked up. They have been oper-
ating In Michigan some time.
Boosters club" has been organ
lied at HarDor Beach TO influence the
Michigan Central railroad company TO
extend its line SO as to have connec-
tons with Caro-. The sugar beet in
dustry is backing the boosters"
Lieut.. George NJ. Hunt. Company III,
! Third regiment, NJ. n. G., is dead at
Ann Arbor from abscess of the brain,
due to malarial fever contracted while
4 in service in Cuba during the Span
1 ish-American war. A widow and two
| children survive.
! The sheep shearing season is on and
I from now until the next thirty days
I thousands of the bleating and resist
4 ing animals will be shed of their wool
" coats. Great herds of sheep are
+ shipped to Vernon from the west an.
nually and are fed through the winter
and sold for spring mutton to the east
ern markets. A late invention is a
gasoline motor shear and with this a
shearer can clip 100 sheep a day.
Lem Wee, the celestial laundryman
who held four queens and got bumped
by Durand gambler who put uT
LENS hand and drew four aces him
self, to LENS exceeding pain when he
called after some lively betting, has
disappeared. The Chinaman has a
mortal fear of the law. and supposed
he was to be arrested. The gamblers
are not sorry he went. as he would
have been a witness against them, and
il is probable that tall stories which
were told him had something to dc
with his slipping away.
When Oscar Phelps. of Lansing, re
turned from work he found his little
two-and .a-half-year-old baby asleep II
its bed and note from his wife say
ing she did not love him enough Il
live with him, and she had gone. TIL,
police have been asked to locate her
The mysterious and still unfathomet
murder of Lloyd Dynes, formerly q
Windsor, Ont, telegraph operator a
Galien, Mich. is recalled by the mar
riage in Laporte, Ind. OF VIM II. Smitl
and Cora +. Swank. of Bcrrien county
Both were arrested and kept I'm jai
for some time on susplcion. and IN,
developments resulted In Swank hi
vorcing his wife.