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Show LIVES IN "NO MAN'S LAND." The Hermit of Traren Bay Stick, to Hi Island and Pay. no Taxe. Musk ion, Mich., Jan. 20. Dick Bassett, the solitary inhabitant of "No Man's Land," well known as the "Hermit "Her-mit of Traverse Bay," is in the city visiting friends. The land in question is in the west arm of the bay, and is seperated from Marion Island by sov-eral sov-eral hundred feet of shoal water. It contains about one acre of land. Bassett Bas-sett has lived there twelve years, and in all that time he has not been allowed al-lowed to pav taxes or cast a vote. He has offered bis ballot several times, and always had it rejected because he did not live in the United States. lie makes a good living catching fish, and has tried to buy the island of tbe government, govern-ment, but the application came back from Washington marked: "There is no island as described.' , |