The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-01-09
FRANK JQNESIS
6|lEN FREEDOM
MusKEooN AuTHoR-FoRcER 10
PARcLED ~ oovERNoR
FERRls.
SPENDS FOUR YEARS IN JAIL

lieutenant Governor Ross, the Judges
Of Grand Rapids and Other
Prominent Men, Favor
Parole.
Lansing. joy hardly expressed the
qualification that overcame Frank @.
Jones, Muskegon forger. who was
called into the executive once Of
the Ionia reformatory and informed
by warden Fuller that . telegram had
Just been received from Governor Fer.
ris granting him temporary parole.
Governor Ferris II : careful
man." said Warden Fuller. land
Jones is one Of the best men who ever
served time in Ionia prison during my
administration
Jones, who has had full charge of
the prison greenhouses, has used his
spare time writing short stories. q
talent he discovered while Imprisoned
here. Lieutenant Governor Ross. the
judges Of Crank Rapids. and other
prominent men favored his parole.
Jones hopes to get permanent
parole and 60 to New York. where he
has been offered positions on New
York magazines as story critic. He
has promised the governor to pay all
debts incurred because of his forger.
ies--about $500, O00--and says he will
earn $4,000 in 1915 toward this end.
He has served nearly four years.
Bill for Michigan Building.
Letters urging the passage of an ap-
preparation bill calling for $4,000 by
the state legislature on the flrst day of
tho session to cover the cost Of erect
Ing and maintaining . Michigan build
ing at the Panama-Pacific exposition
have been sent to all Legislators by the
citizens committee appointed for the
work.
Through the letter. signed BY
Charles B. Warren, chairman, legis.
lators are advised that Senator Rob
ert Y. Ogg expects to introduce the bill
on the first day of the session calling
for the appointment by the governor of
q commission of six men to represent
the state and the $4,000 appropria,
ton. a ~
Further the letter states that a site
IL being held and that plans for q
building are under way in San Fran
cisco. The citizens committee II COM
posed Of George H. Barbour, Hugh
Chalmers. Edward N. Hines, Henry B.
Joy, Mayor Oscar B. Marx, Richard
H. Weber and Charles B.. Warren.
Detroit; Martin ]. Cavanaugh. Ann Ar
Dor; A. G. Carton, Lansing: H. A.
lFrambach, Cheboygan; State Treasur.
er John w. Harer. Lansing: BENJAMIN
lHanchett. Grand Rapids; ~Lawton T.
Hemans. Lansing: Edward Human.
Battle Creek; William Judson, Grand
Rapids; william Kelly. Vulcan; ]. @.
kirkpatrick, Escanaba; w. 8. Linton.
Saginaw; J. r. Rice, Houghton: John
@. Ross, Muskegon; A. e. Sleeper.
.Ubly. and William H. Wallace. sagi-
nav. sr#
Merging Roads Pay state Record Fee.
Santa Claus dropped a present for
Michigan in the states stocking In
the shape Of certified cheek for
$3.50, 900, the franchise fee for the con-
solidation OF the New York Central
and Lake Shore railroad systems. 40
approved by the Michigan railroad
commission.
The franchise fee, under the law.
is one-half of one mill on the entire
capital stock, which is $780, 900.
With the check, when It was tend
cred along with. the articles Of agree
ment at the oface Of the secretary Of
state, the attorney who was attending
to the affair in behalf Of the railroad
company, had also to pay fling fee.
He dug down In his jeans and pro-
.duced so. cents in real money.
The fee 10 by all odds the largest
ever secured by the state and De H.
Mills, deputy secretary Of state. who
took the money. at first threatened
Ito have the check framed for poster
.fty to gaze upon. Then he recovered
his equilibrium and ordered the check
deposited in the due course Of bust.
ness.
Attorney Robinson. who rendered
the money, had carried the check in
his pocket about Lansing for three or
four days. The actual filing Of the
articles of consolidation was delayed
until the arrival Of messenger from
Cleveland, Ohio, who brought with
him certified copies Of the action of