The Unionville Crescent from Unionville, Michigan • 2

MICHIGAN NEWS III BRIEF 315 NEW LAWS Garden for Every Prisoner Thirty long term prisoners In the Kansas City (Kan) workhouse are to be given garden lots this spring in a four acre tract adjoining the workhouse They will he allowed to work In the gardens after working a certain number of hours each day on the stone pile The prisoners will be al-lowed to choose the vegetables and the products will be served In the dining room Gardening will not be compulsory but the prisoners who do not work In their gardens will spend that time breaking stone i May 14 Got Osborn in a proclamation designated May 14 as ind urges its orbservance in all parts if the state The proclamation Is as follows is the sacred fountain rom which flows the stream of nanitv Just as that fountain jure and holy and noble so will character of our people there nothing so tender and loving and jus as the relationship between moth and child willing motherhood Is th measure of the vitality of a race Willful sterility is race murder jne cf the gravestz dangers confr log humanity today request the citizens of Michigan renerally to observe the second Sunday of May as Mothers' Day As many as possible should read the ar-title by Theodore Roosevelt upon Race published In the Outlook of April 8 I bespeak for this day the profound consideration 1 nil nnr neoDle Blamed the Just after the election a large crowd had gathered at a courthouse In North Carolina to see the official vote counted To facilitate the work an adding machine was used Among the attendants there was a largo number of people from the rural districts who had never seen one of these complicated machines They viewed it with open distrust And when the votes were finally counted one of the defeated candidates remarked to a friend ns he turned away: know I was elected to that office but that blame separator cheated me out of The Unionville Crescent I1 BIISHED ETERV FRIDAY TMONYILLE a MICHIGAN Better keep the straw hat In biding lor a few days yet A baseball bat in the hands of the small boy-strikes a blow for health Sauerkraut is said to contain the longevity germ But who Nvants to 1 It has been decided that the ugliest phrase in the English language Is remit" After all what woman would want to wear a harem skirt if It did not attract a crowd? A fashionable young Boston woman has learned to saw wood but she has not learned to say nothing At all events anyone who lives a year in Reno in order to get a divorce is entitled to some recompense A sculptor named Butensky is coming to the front You keep a man with that name in the rear New York has a four-year-oKl boy with a suicidal mania Possibly he has read the theory that the good die young What an awful thing it would te IT fbe son In whom your hopes are centered were to grow up to be a college professor The Oklahoma woman who has "thirteen sons all under 5 years of age probably also has her hands full most of the time A Los Angeles man drank carbolic acid cut his throat and jumped from a skyscraper Tf a thing is worth doing worth doing well An Illinois youth has been barred from enlistment in the navy because he has large ears Is beauty one of the requirements In our navy? It cost 1123 lives to dig Pennsylvania coal last year The Inventors ho are going to get us our heat direct from the sun should hurry up A dealer has been fined $500 for selling loaded dice Loaded dice are useless anyway as the Industrious man can lose enough with the straight kind It develops that the Gotham police call the record of complaints from citizens the squeal hook Which Is facetious but hardly reassuring to the citizens A protest is being made in England against the tone of British novels This ought to be just the boost to business that the publishers have been looking for Statistics show that 1578 persons a minute are carried on the Chicago traction lines They are not all on one car though sometimes it seems as If they were A university professor of Chicago says that detective stories are good cures for seasickness This leaves something of a hiatus in uses for the higher literature cents a day Is enough for opines Prof Henderson of Harvard but we doubt whether the professor is one of those who practice what they preach One of New England's many preachers makes the announcement that American women have ceased to blush Pouf! Why should any woman ever blush at what a good preacher says to her? Emperor William Is to have forty au-tomobiles during the ensuing season but even as King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany he will be unable to ride in more than one of his -automobiles at a time Gotham telephone authorities assert that there is little profanity now or rude language used over the telephone Possibly and paradoxically the profanity and rude language are when the wire is busy A practical joker applied a lighted match to a load of hay In East Lynn Mass and achieved the gigantic stroke of humor of burning up four buildings He made a bigger hit than piost of his jocose tribe A New York Judge has severely criticised Cornelius Vanderbilt because he crossed Ills legs In tho court room Mr Vanderbilt should respectfully content himself with tho twiddling of Ills thumbs or the twisting of his mustache A New York woman has undertaken a crusade against the long hatpin The pin is a real danger and while women may resent the regulation of any part of their attire by law tholr own good senso should convince them of the propriety of ninking this article less of a menace to the public Bugs are reported to have damnged this peach crop to (lie extent of $8000000 We sometimes wonder whether the country would be able to stagger along under the burden of Its peach crop If the peaches were to escape being damaged by frosts and bugs Benton Harbor and St Joseph unite in going to Lake Michigan for a water supply Five hundred Bice I'nv been laid off at the Newport u'7ie near Bessemer and the will shut down The Lansin business men's asso-ciation is trying to arrange to have the Wright brothers fly an aeroplane July 4 Judge Umlor and Marlin Brown cf Traverse City have platted a great tract of land for fishing colony on Boardman river Fred Draper aged 82 'known to lumbermen as the builder of many big sawmills In Michigan In the old lumbering days died in Muskegon Every one of the 20 counties included in the Western Michigan Development bureau was represented at the annual meeting held in Traverse City Gov Osborn appointed Dr Griswold of Grand Rapids as a member of the board of control for the Michigan home to succeed resigned Willing to get a divorce so that his wife might wed a lover of school days John Baker a prominent Kalamazoo farmer applied for a decree which was refused Because the Ball hill gives only $5000 per year instead of $10000 as w-as intended the state fire man department cannot be organized as effectively as planned Judge Richard Flannigan of the Menominee district will preside over the Calumet Hecia cases in Houghton at the request of Judge Streator who Is in the south For the first time since the A post was organized in Owosso just after the war there will be no martial band In the Memorial day procession as three of the five members -of the hand are dead The Muskegon county hoard of supervisors raised the county -valuation 15 per cent to meet the new law which says the valuation must be raised before the meeting of the tat commission this summer A University of Michigan Alumni association has been organized in Petoskev with Paul Buckley president Dr Ralph Engle vice-president Mrs Gilbert secretary and McCune treasurer State Senator John Leidlein who is one of the stockholders in the defunct Coal company of Saginaw started proceedings in circuit court to foreclose a $40000 mortgage to satisfy a part of his claim Professional Yeggs attempted to rob the postoffice at Coloma The outside safe was wrecked by nitroglycerine but the robbers fled without getting at the -cash The robbers got several hundred dollars' worth of stamps Three persons 'two men and a woman were drowned and 12 others had miraculous escapes from death when the steel steamer Edwin Fisher was sunk in the lower Detroit river by the steamer Stephen Clement It is stated Mayor Zeif of Luding-ton is preparing to bring suit against City Clerk Thompson for the recovery of the $50 forfeit money posted at the recount of the mayoralty vote and returned to William Rath the defeated candidate Despairing of ever satisfying the appetite of a sink hole near Shafts-burg which has swallowed hundreds of tons of rock gravel dirt trees and brush the Lansing "Northeastern railway has decided to build a trestle 50 feet long over the hole A decision in the case of Bryan and Victor Clore of Palms on trial in Ogden Utah on a charge of train robbery has been held up to give the court time read a transcript of the testimony This will delay the decision about 15 days The lid has been clamped on with a bang In Montcalm county With local option becoming effective May 1 the county officials have Issued orders that the state law relative to gambling will be strictly enforced as to gameB and playing cards for money Albion college has just been honored by being permitted to become a member of the Delta Sigma Rho fraternity which Is a national organization composed only of colleges and universities that have made an exceptional good record jn oratory and debate Battle Creek has reason for believing that President Taft will visit the city In September when he comes to Detroit and Kalamazoo Senator Townsend has placed the matter before the president and received a partial acceptance of the invitation Osborn Ackley a farmer near Grant took carbolic acid and died In his barn His wife found him when she went there to call him to breakfast He was a candidate for county drain commissioner at the recent primaries and one of the best known politicians in the county When the supervisors of Eaton county Included the cost of new cement walls around the court house square in 1310 taxes several prominent Vermontville farmers protested and brought action against the treasurer of that township In an opinion handed down Judge Smith finds no cause for action The case will lirob-ably be appealed Saginaw wants to go to Lake Huron or some of the northern lakes for a pure water supply while Hay C'ity seems to prefer an extension of its present intakes Into the bay to deeper water for itself A chapter of Gamma Eta Gamma a national law fraternity has been established at the of tile local chapter to he known as Zeta chapter This fraternity was founded 21 years ago at the University of Mains Messrs York of Harvard and Mac-Ixnn and Gibbs of Boston Law school Installed the chapter liere The chapter plans to have a club house noxt fall OF SUGAR BEETS THE BELIEF OF CANADIAN GROWERS REGARDING THE RECIPROCITY PACT SOME DOUBT WHETHER PRODUCT WILL BE ADMITTED FREE- The Question Is Very Important to the Beet Sugar Companies of Canada as Well as to Michigan Canadian beet sugar Companies are unable to learn whether sugar beets will be on the free list if the proposed reciprocity bill between Canada and the United States becomes a law American Consul Fred Slater located in Sarnia on request given his opinion to the Canadian sugar companies although he states that his opinion Is without authority Mr Slater believes that beets will be on the free list under the proposed pact and the companies will ask for an opinion from the Canadian government while Mr Slater will also seek Information on the question from Washington authorities Under the tariff law of 1S97 which will continue in force providing it does not conflict with the compact the tariff on sugar beets is 25 per cetn ad valorem At the time the present tariff law went Into effect there was considerable misunderstanding over the question whether beets were on the free list At that time the government handed down an opinion to the effect that sugar beets were classed under the list of vegetables and that they should be taxed the regular rate It was the contention of the sugar companies at the time that beets not having been specifically mentioned In the vegetable list should come under the schedule containing mosses roots eta Under the proposed pact vegetables are placed on the free list although sugar beets are not specifically mentioned yet It includes other vegetables in their natural state not here At the time of the question over the first tariff beets were not used to a large extent for sugar purposes but were for feeding purposes It is thought that this may make a difference at the present time because nearly all the beets are used in the manufacture of sugar which consumes much labor while previously the only change made to the beets was topping and washing The question is important to the beet sugar companies of Canada as well as to Michigan If beets are on the free list It will mean much more competition for the companies Especially is this true of the Canadian companies where the price paid is not as high as in Michigan Whether the fact that beetB are cheaper in Canada will increase the price because of the competition or whether it will decrease the price in the states is a question which cannot be settled until it has been worked out The Canadian farmer believes that it will Increase the price without affecting the price of beets in the states STATE BRIEFS Carnegie gives a $12500 library to Sturgeon Bay Alger county will vote June 13 on a proposition to bond the county for $50000 for good roads Dowagiac firemen announce a two-day fair for some week this summer when they will race all comers Because a woman said they would find oil drillers went 1200 feet in vain in Delta township Saginaw county employes have demanded an increase of two cents an hour for city men and four cents an hour for interurban men and given the company two weeks to answer A number of prospective saloonkeepers of Marshall anticipating that a decision of the supreme court will be In their favor have ordered bar fixtures and are getting ready to begin business Capt Samuel Harvey of Iron-wood is dead at San Diego Cal The deceased was CO years of age He was one of the best known iron mining authorities in northern Michigan for many years He originally came from Ishpeming Ypsflanti Normal duplicated the performance of last year when It received the unanimous decision of the Judges against A in the annual debate of the two colleges on the qnestion thut the United States should retain ownership of all coal lauds now owned or hereafter acquired by the federal The nnnual convention of the Chicago synod which extends from Ohio to the Pacific coast and from Oklahoma to Canada opened at the Sec eon9 Reformed church of Muskegon with nearly 200 delegates In attendance Represented at the sessions were the classes of Grand River Holland Michigan Dakota Illinois Pella Pleasant Pralrio and Wisconsin Members of the Saginaw Federation of clubs got out a 32-page edition of an evening paper It carried many fTrtielws on uttra milk clean streets the tubereu'osiu flvl and other matters in which the club women are interested To inspect the school system of Muskegon and particularly its manual training branches Prof Ttemun DeVries LL sent to the United States by the government of the Netherlands is in Mimkegon on a short visit rrof DeVries's main object in his visit is an attempt to have the University of Chicago establish a chair of Holland literature there GOVERNOR OSBORN KILLED 31 OF 16 BILLS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE Very few appropriations got THROUGH WITHOUT TRIMMING As His Final Act the Governor Signed the Bill Making a Straight Two-Cent Fare Rate on Railroads of the State Of the 546 bills passed by the legislature the governor vetoed 31 outright and IS partially all of the latter being appropriations As a matter of fact very few appropriations got through without being trimmed the most notable exception being the $500000 allowed for state reward good mads In round numbers the governor has cut $780000 out of the budget as allowed by the legislature which will reduce it to about $11500000 The last several bills which were submitted to the governor were important He wound up by attaching his signature to the bill making a straight rwo-cent fare on all railroads in the state so that after August 1 the upper peninsula roads will have to reduce their fares unless they decide to attack the law on the ground that the rate Is confiscatory Senator bill amending the general game laws met with approval The governor signed the Flowers general primary hill so that hereafter primary candidates most receive 15 per cent of their party vote In order to get their names on the election ballot and the Moriarty-James bill regulating express Tates on small packages the basic rate being 25 cents for packages not exceeding $3 in value and 10 pounds in weight which rate includes collecting and delivery The James-Moriarty hill was strongly opposed by the state railroad commission and Gov Osborn In signing that bill took occasion to reprimand the commission because It- saw fit to oppose it He was particularly severe toward Chairman Glasgow because oi the argument against the bill although the governor had asked Glasgow for an opinion on the bill The opinion was given merely In reply to the governor's request In comment Gov Osborn referred to Glasgow as working only for the express companies whereas am the champion of the added the executive By the law to prohibit the sale and carrying of dangerous weapons In counties of over 15000 population which the governor signed merchants who sell and persons desiring to carry dangerous weapons must secure licenses from a' commission made up of the prosecuting attorney sheriff and chief of police The penalty for violating this law Is a stiff one being a $500 fine or two imprisonment Women's hatpins over 10 inches long are classed as dangerous weapons The governor also signed the hill making it a fraud for any person to secure water steam or electricity by fraud or to tamper with the meters Attorney I Wykes of Grand Rapids will be a member- of the special tax inquiry commission and not of the compensation commission If his health improves former Attorney-General Horace Oren will also be a member of the tax inquiry commission Will Russell Has Resigned Russell has resigned his posi-fion at the prison and will go to Minneapolis to take a position offered him while he was there recently for his health He is here now packing his goods and helping at the prison until he This is the statement given out by Warden James Russell of the state prison Beyond this brief statement littie is known of the circumstances of the return of the hroth-e- which caused such a storm of protest when it became known It is believed in Marquette however that a vigorous protest from Gov Osborr has caused the sudden change of front on the part of the warden Calhoun and Genesee Are Calhoun and Genesee counties license forces won victories Monday in opinions handed down by the supreme court and two more will he added to the list which have been prohibition counties the past two years In the recent election the question of local option was voted on in both counties and the license foroes won In Genesee by a majority -of 81 and in Calhoun by 25 Forest Fires Start in North Country Fire st in the north woods are spreading rapidly The damage will lie serious should there he no rain In all directions rising smoke is seen and toward Lake Superior the timber seems all ablaze Camp fires left burning by careless parties are thought to be most generally the cause of these fires At a session of the Michigan Creamery Owners and Manufacturers' association in Jackson llenry Sided of Saginaw was chosen president There nre several cases of smallpox iti the city of Marshall and a general vaccimilRm has been ordered All of the cases are mild Traverse City Elks have completed the program for the state reunion of Michigan Elks June 7 8 and 9 On the eighth will he a parade of lodges In uniform In the morning and a ritualistic contesi bv four lodges in tho afternoon In tho evening a display of fireworks On the morning ol the ninth will be an exhibition drill and contests and at noon a big brook trout supper State league championship baseball teams will Warships to 'Go to Acapulco Alarm Is felt In administration circles for the safety of Americans In Mexico especially In the vicinity cf Acapulco on the west coast Conditions described as intolerable were reported to the state department by Ambassador WilBon and it is probable that warships will he ordered to Acapulco at once The ambassador acted following a report that two sons of Judge Melvin Goodman had been murdered by bandits at their hacienda not far from Acapulco Mr Wilson wired also that Americans in Mexico City are becoming alarmed and that their unrest Is due In some measure to apprehension of the failure of peace negotiations and a consequent prevalence oi anarchy Seven Were Smothered Nearly a score out of a hundred miners In the Hartford mine of the Republic Iron Steel company near Negaunee were cut off from escape when the timbering of the mine took fire and at least seven men are dead All the men were smothered by the smoke and gas from the fire The fire broke out on the third level of the mine about 400 feet under ground It is the theory that some careless miner left a lighted candle too near the woodwork of the shaft A to Fight Larch Saw-Fly A will be one of the first colleges of the United States to lead a new sort of attack against the ravages of the tamarack sawfly which has destroyed great tracts of American larch or tamarack In the northern part of this state and In fact In all stands of larch from Maine to Minnesota This insect has been a menace to what little larch remains in Michigan and has already done millions of dollars of damage NEWS IN BRIEF Half a million is given to Brooklyn hospitals and charitable organizations by the will of George Fox a Brooklyn lawyer The steamer Deutschland with the German Antarctic expedition sailed for Buenos Ayres where complete supplies will be taken on A $40 note authorized by the continental congress was sent to the treasury by a man who asked real money for It He was told it was worthless Four new aviators are to be officially granted their licenses as pilots by the Aero Club of America This will bring the list of recognized flyers In this country to 40 George Dougherty for many years chief of the New York bureau of the Pinkerton Detective agency has been named second deputy commissioner of police for New York city by Mayor Gaynor Charitable Institutions In Boston benefit to the extent of $104000 under the will of the late Joseph IV Leighton of Brookline In every case the sum beqeathed is to be kept intact and only the income used The Aldrich plan for currency reform will be recommended by the currency commission of the American association to its executive council The executive council is expected to give its indorsement When Dr Hyde under indictment on the charge of murdering Col Thomas Swope appeared In the criminal court in Kansas City to be arraigned for his second trial the case was postponed until May 16 Preparing for the early opening of the Panama canal Secretary Dickinson has approved plans for the construction of a large hotel at Colon supplementing similar service to tour ists by the government hotel at Ancon Dr Jin Guey Moy a Chinese physician who lives on a large country estate at Wood Clifflake is under arrest charged witli being in a conspiracy to smuggle 100 Chinamen into tho United States from the island of Jamaica The use of abandoned farms owned by New York state as farm colonies for tramps and vagrants will he urged by Gov Dix At present the state is paying thousands of dollars a year for the maintenance of tramps in penitentiaries Representative llnrtholdt of Missouri has been selected by President Taft to represent the United States at tho presentation to the Gorman emperor or a replica in miniature of the statue of Baron Von Steuben recently unveiled The Conqueror Great Britain's twentieth dieadnaught was launched on the Clyde The vessel Is the third battleship ordered in December 1009 when the admirnllty came to the conclusion that Germany was accelerating her progrum for too same type of warship The Conqueror la a duplicate of the Thunderer which was launched February 1 Wanted A Mother The Cook County hospital Chicago wants a and has sent out a list of the requirements for such a person She must be a real mother In the sense of having children she must be gentle firm and kind and capable of looking after the kitchen: she must not serve cold meats and must know all about domestic affairs: she must know food values and must be diplomatic even-tempered and a good 1 Teach German Girls to Cook Women cooking teachers with a fnlt equipment of the latest and best cooking Implements are being sent from village to village by the government of the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen for the purpose of teaching German girls new methods and new dishes The girls are said to be willing to learn how to make the new dishes and also-to eat them but their parents often refuse even to taste any new dish Picture of John Brown Sold Thomas famous painting "The Last Moments of John Brown" was sold for $355 at the first day of the sale of the collection of foreign and American paintings from the estates of Henry Statzeli Davis and Ward Barnes at tho Philadelphia Art Philadelphia Ledger Tough John was at breakfast at a hotel and encountered a piece of tough beefsteak Having failed to make an Impression on it he quietly laid down hid knife and fork and remarked to tho company: "Ladies and gentlemen It's my opinion that this steak Is an Infringement on the Goodyear patent" The Most Beautiful Thing A newspaper recently Invited Its readers to state In a few words what they considered the most beautiful thing In the world The first prize was awarded to the sender of the answer: eyes of my dream of that which we know to be suggested an Imaginative person and this brought him second prize But the most amusing thing was that which read most beautiful thing In the world Is to see a man carrying his mother-in-law across a dangerous river without making any attempt to drop her In" 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