The L'Anse sentinel., 1916-02-19
WEATHER HURTS
MICHIGAN WHEAT
MUCH DAMAGE Is REPORTED BY
CORRESPONDENTS OF THE
STATE.
CROP REPORT FOR JANUARY
Out Of AS Inquiries, 27s Report Injury
to Grain, While 1865 Say No DAM
age Was Done-condition
Of Live Stock Good.

Lansing. Michigan wheat suffered
considerable injury during January.
according to the crop report issued by
Secretary Of State Vaughan. Out Of
445 inquiries directed to crop CORE
spondents throughout the state, 279
report injury to wheat last month,
Snow protected wheat in the south
ern counties nine days, in the central
counties seven, in the northern coun-
ties IA and in the upper peninsula 27
days.
The average dept of snow on Janu-
ary Is in the state was 2.33 inches, in
the southern counties 1.53, in the CEN
tral counties 1.49, in the northern
3.4S and in the upper peninsula 11.65
inches.
The total number of bushels of
wheat marketed by farmers in Janu-
ary at 10 Touring mills was 123,033,
and at 81 elevators and to grain deal
ers 145,946, or a total of 268,979 bush
els. OF this amount 189,309 bushels
were marketed in the southern four
tiers OF counties, 69,736 In the central
counties and 1894 in the northern
counties and upper peninsula.
The estimated total number of bush
els of wheat marketed in six months,
August to January, is 5,250,000. Forty
mills, elevators and grain dealers re-
port no wheat marketed in January.
The average condition of live stock
In the state is reported as follows,
comparison being with stock in good,
healthy and thrifty condition: Horses
and sheep, 96; cattle and swine, 95.
Jurisdiction Upheld.
Acts OF the legislature of 1887
creating concurrent Jurisdiction in
counties bordering Lake Huron we're
upheld by the supreme court and as a
result state fish law violators taken
In Lake Huron between the shore line
and the international boundary line
can be tried in any county bordering
on the lake. mo matter exactly where
the offense was committed.
The case in which the court rem.
dered decision was that of Bert An.
drews against Robert e. Ellsworth.
Andrews was arrested by Ellsworth. a
deputy game and fish warden, for q
violation OF the net law off st. Clair
county. He was taken to Bay county
for trial, but before trial got writ OF
habeas corpus on the ground that the
law giving concurrent Jurisdiction to
the various counties was unconstitu.
tfonal, inasmuch as 1t removed from q
prisoner the right to trial in the i'm
mediate vicinity Of his alleged crime.
The St Clair county circuit court
issued the writ of habeas corpus. but
the high court overrules it, and the
case will now go to trial in Bay county.
On the decision in the Andrews case
much depended, and the matter has
been closely watched by state officials
ever since the supreme court took 1t a
year ago. Had the court upheld the
contention of Andrews, practically
speaking. Michigan would have been
without Jurisdiction in the waters of
Lakes Erie, Michigan, st. Clair, Huron
and Superior. between the shore line
and the international boundary.
When the state was first erected the
counties bordering on the various
lakes were few. Concurrent jurisdic.
tion was given on Lake Erie to Wayne
and Monroe counties. on Lake st. Clair
to Wayne. Macomb and st. Clair; on
Lake Michigan to Berrien, Van Buren,.
Allegan, Ottawa and Mackinac; or
Lake Huron to Saginaw, Mackinac. St.
Clair and Chippewa, and on Lake Su.
perior to Chippewa.
The boundary line of counties subse-
quently erected runs only to the shore
line and consequently up until the year
1885, when the legislature passed acts
giving all counties now organized
and hereafter to be organized" con.
current jurisdiction, the Jurisdiction
remained in the original counties. An.
drews attacked the act Of 1885, merely
a repetition of the act OF 1887. and had
he been successful, only those few
counties whose boundaries were fixed
by law as the international boundary
could have had any water Jurisdiction
at all.