Senior Lits' Cannon

Detroit, Mich , June 11- Gov. Pingree bas received a letter from Maj. Geo. H. Hopkins of the war department, Washington, stating that four captured Spanish cannons have been allotted to Michigan as her share of the spoils of the late war. Four times that many cities are applicants for the guns, and the governor does not yet know what he will do with them. The letter reads :

"The secretary of war directs me to say that: it has been decided to loan to the several states certain of the condemned and obsolete ordinance captured in and about Santiago in the war with Spain, and in this allotment four guns will be assigned to your state to be loaned to such soldiers' monument association, posts of the G, A. R., or municipal corporations as you may designate. There is no provision of law by which the government can bear any part of the expense in connection with any such loan. The guns will be forwarded in most cases from Watervliet arsenal, near Troy, N. Y.,or from the New York arsenal at Governor 's island, N. Y. There are no mounts or carriages - simply bore guns.

"If it be your wish that your state receive the guns allotted kindly designate the proposed recipient."

"The following cities have applied for these trophies: Detroit, Ann Arbor, Three Oaks, Ontonagon, Bay City, Sault Ste. Marie and Allegan. I am informed by the navy department that your state has already one of the captured Spanish gnus "

The senior lits have petitioned for a cannon through the G. A. R post of this city and it is quite likely that they will get it as great pressure is being brought to bear on the governor. If successful they will have it placed near the flag staff on the campus as a class memorial. Arrangements have already been made for the foundation.