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FREE HOMESTEADS And South Dakota Lands for Sale 160 acres 51 miles from town, fine laying land, 150 acres being level, all can be plowed, a non-resident quarter. Price $13.00 per acre, good terms. 160 acres 31 miles from town, every foot plow land and perfect laying, a non resident quarter, must be sold at once. Price $16.00 per acie and good terms. 2uo acres 11 miles from town, raw quarter, all can be plowed, part bottom land. Price $21.00 per acre, one-half cash, good terms on balance. OTHER BARGAINS We also have a number of good relinquishments for sale ranging from 2 to 12 miles from railroad, both improved and unimproved. Prices $l5O to SBOO according to improvements and location. For the actual settler who desires to move > here, wants to farm and make his homestead his home in reality as well as in name, there is no cheaper lands to be bought today in the United States. Land has doubled in value m this county in the past year. The price is still so low thsre is room for it to treble within the next five years. Here is your last and undoubtly best chance to procure a good productive and cheap home. Go with me and look these lands over and see for yourself. W. E. SHIMMF , Lancaster, Wis. R. B* Showalter,Pres. R. Meyer, Ass’t. Cash. C. H Baxter, V. Pres. V. L. Showalter, Ass’t. C. Jos. Bock, Cashier. Ths Union state Bank Of Lancaster. Wisconsin.. CAPITAL $50,000.00 fl General Banklnc Business Transacted. Prepare Now for Spring Activities If you are going to do any building during the coming Spring or Sum mer do not wait too long before purchasing your BUILDING MATERIAL We have in our yards a complete stock of Lumber. Lath, Shingles, Siding, Doors, Sash, Brick, Lime, Cement, Plaster, etc. It will pay you to let us figure on your bill. Brittingham & Hixon Company The Best) O f Liquors and Cigars are the only kind I keep. Come and see me. John Schmidt, Pink’s Old St ana. P. A. BISHOP Live Stock Auctioneer Why not have an auction eer sell your sale tnat is a judge of values and knows buyers all over the country? I have Pleased others, I think can please you Farmers’ and Long Distance Phones Platteville, Wisconsin asbwilll BURROWS & WINSKILL LIVERY Boarding andJ Feed Stable First Class Rigs and Prompt Service One Block South of Wright House.... Bell Phone No. 1552 rrecious m eta is Lost. The loss from wear and tear and shipwreck of precious metals has been estimated at two tons of gold and 100 tons of silver yearly. OK ANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER WISCONSIN, MAY 4, 1910 IMPOBW NEWS NOIES OF A WEEK LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE Condensed Into a Few Lines for the Perusal of the Busy Man— " Latest Personal Infor mation. 1 PERSONAL. Mrs. Leslie Carter-Payne, the ac tress, was taken seriously ill at Cleve land, 0., and all her engagements for the season have been canceled. She is suffering from acute colitis said to have been induced by eating soft shelled crabs.’ Charley Taft, son of the president, kept his good nature after students of his uncle’s school at Watertown, Conn., which he Is attending, “ducked” him in a brook. Sister Eutropia, the oldest nun In Colorado, who crossed the plains to Denver by ox team and established St. Mary’s academy there, died at Loretto Heights academy. She was eighty years old. * At Fairview, Neb., the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, their oldest daughter, Ruth Bryan Leavitt, will be married next Tuesday, May 3, to Reginald Owen of the Brit ish Royal engineers. E. H. R. Green of Terrell, Tex., son of Mrs. Hetty Green, who announced recently that he had not married be cause he could find no woman who would accept him, except for his money, admits receiving 150 letters from women, asking his hand, within two weeks. Accompanied by Baron d’Estour nelles de Constant and the American and British military attaches, Miss Ethel and Kermit Roosevelt visited the aerodrome at Vincennes, France, and both made a flight in a biplane. Bjornstjerne BJornson, • the Nor wegian poet, novelist and dramatist, reformer and advocate of universal peace, died at Paris, France, surround ed by his family. His end was peace ful. His death was the result of a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Putnam Bradlee Strong, for merly May Yohe, a London music hall singer, has been granted a divorce at Oregon City, Ore., on the ground of desertion, from Capt. P. B. Strong of New York. GENERAL NEWS. Declaring that P sident Roosevelt stood sponsor for all his acts as chief of the United States land office and quoting the former president freely in his behalf, Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, as a witness in his own be half made some fresh contributions to the history of the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy before the joint investiga ting committee. He quoted Mr. Roose velt as indorsing his contentions in a dispute with Secretary Garfield and Gifford Pinchot. Glavis, he declared to be an unmitigated liar, who was try ing to besmirch his reputation. Hundreds of delegates, representing about three million American farmers, met in St. Louis in a convention under the auspices of the Farmers’ union to promote reform legislation in congress. The grand jury investigating the so called “white slave” traffic at New York has found that not only do the conditions described in magazine arti cles exist, but that a grand jury repre sentative, James B. Reynolds, through women agents, has been able actually to purchase four “slaves,” two of whom are mere girls. Three arrests were made as a result, and another ar rest is expected. The body of Linden C. L. I’Zilva the Princeon Theological seminary student missing since Sunday, was found in the Raritan canal, near Princeton, N. J. Mrs. Maud, or Myrtle, Johnson was convicted by a jury at Vancouver, Wash., of defrauding the Northern Pacific Railroad company of $1,250 by pretending to have received physical injuries when riding on one of the company’s trains. Colonel Roosevelt was welcomed in Holland, the land of his forefathers, in a manner which amazed all who saw it. From the time his train reached Roosendaal, on the frontier, until he retired for the night at The Hague, the people everywhere cheered him. and at Het Loo, the royal country resi dence, Queen Wilhelmina and the prince consort and high personages welcomed him. Her majesty gave a luncheon in his honor. Corsets for young college students who must take the part of women in college theatricals have been officially tabooed by the dramatic director of the New York university actors. The prohibition follows an attack of syn cope suffered by an undergraduate at a dress rehearsal while tightly laced. One man was killed and many caged animals were thrown into panic at Jersej City when a huge circus tent was wrecked by a storm. When searched at the station house by New York police, a ragged beggar, under vagrancy charges, was found to have SI,BOO in his possession. Internal commerce of the United States made a favorable showing in March, according to a report of the department of Commerce and labor at Washington, but live stock receipts and packing house products fell below the average for the five preceding years. The meeting between Mr. Roose velt and the king occurred at the ex position, to which the former presi dent was driven in an automobile. King Albert went there to surprise Mr. Roosevelt. John W. Kern of Indianapolis was nominated for the United States sen ate on the third ballot in the Demo cratic state convention. The platform denounces the Payne-Aldrich bill as a master piece of injustice, involving remorseless exactions from the many to enrich the few, condemns coward ice of the Republican party in Indi ana, which commends Taft, approves Payne-Aldrich tariff act, and in same resolutions, Beveridge, who voted against it. Construction of the edifice for St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church at Fifth avenue and Fifty-third street, New York city, will begin next month. The structure will cost more than $1,000,000, and two-thirds of this amount is in the hands of the trustees. The National Tube company has post ed notices that all employees’ wages will be advanced May 1. The amount will be from one to six per cent, and the higher rate will affect day labor, which will be paid $1.75 instead of $1.60 a day. S. R. Nelson, vice-president of a bank at Chillicothe, Mo., and former president of the Missouri State Bank ers’ association, committed suicide at his home by drinking carbolic acid. It is said that his accounts are correct. Fifteen persons were injured, one of them so severely that it is believed he will die, in the collapse of a con- j crete and tile floor newly laid before ; the entrance to a New York East side j moving picture theater. John Morris, a miner, maddened by ; drink, shot and killed two men, wounded several others and a woman, at Welch, W. Va., and later met death while trying to escape into Virginia on a freight train, by losing his balance and falling under the wheels. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., re tired, was thrown from a new horse he was riding in Potomac park. Wash- j ington. One rib was broken, he re- | ceived a slight scalp wound and was bruised on one shoulder and side. As the result of a conference here I between Michigan Republican leaders ' in Washington it is announced that : Senator Burrows will remain in the senatorial race. At the September primaries Burrows and Representa tive Townsend will be candidates. Stanley Ketchel, champion middle weight of the world, defeated Sam Langford, the negro challenger for the title, in six viciously fast rounds be fore the National Athletic club, Phil adelphia. It was a toss-up between the pair until the final round. The champion tore into his foe in the Sixth round, hammered Langford all over the ring and had the negro so busily occupied that he could do nothing but protect himself. “Theodore Roosevelt for the United States senate as successor to Chaun cey Depew,” is the way the political prophets and wiseacres of Washing ton have the situation in New York state forecast. Search of the sea for the British sealing steamship Aurora with a crew of 187 men, which has been missing since April 1, has revealed no trace of the vessel. While its owners are hold ing out hope that ice conditions may have kept the ship from reaching St. Johns, N. F., and that she is safe, cap tains of the fishing fleet are pessimis- , tic. Richard A. Ballinger, secretary of the interior, went on the stand at Washington to give his version of his conservation controversy with Gifford Pinchot, which resulted in the ousting of the latter as chief forester. The secretary’s testimony will mark the beginning of the end of the long con gressional inquiry. His mind unbalanced by anxiety over the illness of his wife, Herman W. Clough, a railroad switchman of Concord, N. H., killed her by splitting her head with an ax and then cut his own throat with a meat knife, dying immediately. At Washington, the house passed the Wiley resolution calling upon the attorney general to make a full inves tigation of the finances and manage ment of George Washington univer sity. Members of the American Newspa per Publishers’ association and the Associated Press, which have been in annual session in New York, attended a joint banquet at the Waldorf-As toria. Mayor Gaynor, in responding to “The Press and Its Relation to Public Officials,” which subject had been assigned him by the editors, took occasion to assail W. R. Hearst. He referred to a recent article in one of Mr. Hearst’s papers and branded it as a “forgery and falsification of a public document.” J After successfully holding up and robbing o rews and passengers of sev eral street cars a gang of negroes, dis guised as white men, was rounded up by the New Orleans (La.) police, one of the negroes being fatally wounded. Indictments vere returned at Ha vana, Cuba, a ;ainst Gen. Evaristo Estenoz, the negro leader, and 22 other negro pri/oners, charging them with inciting rebUlion and instigating anti-white violence. The senate at Washington defeated the Cummins amendment to the rail road bill providing that the railroads may get together and make traffic agreements, provided that the rates following from such agreement shall be submitted to and approved by the In terstate Commerce commission before they shall become effective. President Lowell of Harvard uni versity has stirred up a hornet’s nest by questioning in the most casual manner, in his address to Boston school teachers, the historic authentic ity of Plymouth rock and the Wash ington elm. WISCONSIN HAPPENINGS Fond du Lac. —William Klein, a well-known farmer residing in the town of . Ashford, is lying at the point of death as the result of a dyna mite explosion. Peter Shiltz and his daughter, Miss Shiltz, were badly in jured, but will recover. Klein, who is a middle-aged man, had put ten pounds of dynamite in the oven in the kitchen range to dry out and was seated near the stove waiting for it to warm up. Both of his eyes were blown out apd he received other seri ous wounds about the body and limbs. Miss Shiltz was blown through a door and Peter Shiltz was thrown through a window 7 by the great force of the explosion. The house, which was a brick structure, was badly wrecked. lacine. —Thomas Burns, constable of the village of Corliss, is be ing tried in the circuit court on a charge of having embezzled S4OO of money belonging to Paul Adamsky of Two Rivers. In May, 1909, Adamsky drew S6OO from a bank and left for Chicago. At Corliss he became in sane, leaped from a train and threw away a big roll of money. When a demand was made on Burns for the money he handed over S2OO, declaring that it was all that was given him. Madison. —Eighteen inches of snow fell in Madison and vicinity, bringing business practically to a standstill, Impeding street and steam railway traffic, severely hampering telegraphic and telephonic communi cation and doing thousands of dollars in damage to small fruits and early spring vegetables. This was the worst April snow storm Madison experienced since 1875. Milwaukee. —After a quarrel with his sw’eetheart, which caused him to be thrown out of her home, Louis Pichle, alias Meyer, walked to Seventh and Clybourn streets and drank carbolic acid. He was hurried to the Emergency hospital, but died w’hile on the w 7 ay. A letter found in his pocket showed that he formerly lived in Sheboygan, and that he was a painter. Wisconsin Veterans’ Home. —John D. Miller died at the hospital here. He was born in Germany seventy years ago, and had been a resident of Wisconsin since 1856. He served during the late war in Com pany C, First New York light artil lery, for forty-four months, and was admitted to the Wisconsin Veterans’ home July 24, 1894. Beloit. —April 23 was to have been cleanup day of the local Woman’s Federation of Clubs, but the weather made it a serious joke. The mercury is at freezing point and a blizzard drifted and piled the snow An sidewalks. Fuel men cannot supply the demands made upon them on ac count of the severe weather. Port Washington.—A small land slide has blocked traffic on the Milwaukee-Northern line north of this city. While the interurban car which leaves Milwaukee at 1:30 o’clock was passing the bluff on Jackson street above the brewery the ground gave way effectually blocking the car. No one was injured. Kenosha. —The steamer lowa is still firmly grounded on the beach five miles north of Kenosha. Three tugs have worked all day in an effort to release her. Life savers are standing ready to take off the crew in emergency. An ugly sea is j running, but the steamer is not in any imme diate danger. Plymouth.—The Milwaukee road will have to rebuild two bridges in the town of Rhine which it tore down in 1871 when it diverted a stream emptying into the Sheboygan river, according to a decision of the railroad commission. Beloit. Henry A. Johnson, a farmer, dropped dead from apoplexy. August Erickson, a former well-to-do farmer and saloonkeeper at Stoughton, died suddenly here. La Crosse. —A grand jury will be called to sift charges that three coun ty officers have been financially inter ested in contracts for a new court house. Madison. —Prof. Frederick J. Turn er of Wisconsin, who has resigned to join the Harvard university faculty next year, will deliver the third an nual Phi Beta Kappa oration at the University of Michigan May 14. Bayfield. While piking cedar logs upon the “bull” chain at the Wachsmuth Lumber company’s plant, August Lobenan, seventeen years old, fell into the slip and was drowned. Viroqua.—John Buckles, who has just celebrated his one hundredth biithday, has cut 100 fence posts, over 500 rails and built eighty rods of fence this spring. New Richmond. —The common council has voted a permanent tax levy of SI,OOO a year, and thereby secures for New Richmond a $10 : 000 Carnegie library. Fond du Lac. —The Church of the Covenant has extended a call to Rev. Leonard Calvert of Wabena. Fond du Lac. Bishop Charles Chapman Grafton celebrated the twenty-first anniversary of his con secration as bishop with service at the convent of the Holy Nativity. The whole day was befittingly ob served w T ith congratulations and many floral remembrances. Viroqua.—A hen belonging to a Viroqua resident is determined to place her eggs in cold storage at the time she lays them. Through an outside window she forces her way under the house and into the cellar, where she daily lays an egg. Pure-Bred Stallion MP. HINMAN No. 52601 Brown Stallion. 3 years old. Weighs 1.050 pounds. Sired by Bill Hinman. 2:14%. the fast trotting stallion for 1909 over % mile track in the state of Wisconsin. Ist dam, Lena Lester, by A lest er: ht by Lord Russel, a full brother to the champion. Maud S., 2:0814. Mr. Hinman's dam is al So the dam of that great race mare. mile track the first season out. Cert ificate of Pure-bred stallion No. 1781. While I have owned and driven more good colts than any other man in this part of the state. I say without fear of contradiction that Mr. Hinman is absolutely the best colt I ever had anything to do with, and that takes in such horses as Lumpwood. 2:14% ; Bill Hin man. 2:14%; Miss Minnie. 3 years old. 2:30; Nutaroy. 3 years old. 2:30; Robert LaFollette. 4 years old, 2:22%—these records all made over % mile tracks—and many others chat were great race horses. Mr. Hinman will make the season at Dyer’s Livery, at $15.00 to insure a colt, W. B. DYER. BELGIAN STAR is a bay Belgian stallion. 5 years old, stands 17 hands high, white star in forehead, and weighs 1,700 pounds. Sired by Giorieux 11, No. 1802. Certificate of Grade Stallion No. 2035. Belgian Star will make the season of 1910 at home. 4 miles west of Fennimore, every day of the week but Thursday, when he will be at Jake Ohlert’s. Little Grant. TERMS: $lO to insure a standing colt 3 days old. Parties disposing of mares and leaving the county, money is due. Owners of mares at time of service will be held for insurance money. Not responsible for accidents should any occur. Delbert* Taylor 7w6 * Proprietor fAYLOFSGREENHOUSE W. L. TAYLOR, Proprietor Lancaster, Wis. SPECIAL SI.OO OFFER. 1 Hardy Shrub. 1 Crimson Rambler Rose. 2 Geraniums —1 pink. 1 white. 2 carnations—l red. 1 white. 6 Tomato plants—Ponderosa. 6 Early Cabbage. 2 Red Cabbage. 1 Dozen Celery. 3 Parsley. 1 Pepper—large red. 1 Hardy Phlox. 8 Asters —mixed varieties. 1 Dozen Pansies—mixed varieties. 1 Coleus. 4 English Daisies. —2 pink, 2 white. 1 Dianthus. 1 Sweet William, red. 4 Alyssums. 1 Hollyhock. I Verbena, red. 1 Forgetme not. hardy. 1 Hardy Chrysanthemum, white Pompon. 2 Sage. 1 Japanese Air ’’lant. This collection is worth $2.40. 10 cents ex tra for postage. This is clean, healthy, first class stock. We handle no other. These plants will be readv May 12. Orders received for these collec tions up to May 25. Call, phone or write. Live Steck Auctionsale Call me up over the Far mers’ phone. General Auc tioneering. Stock Sales a Specialty Geo. P. Finnegan FENNIMORE. - WISCONSIN EGGS FOR SALE == FRO M Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds The great winter layers, from prize winning stock. Pen scoring 91 to 94|. $1 per setting. Farm range flock, fine birds, 75c per setting. Incubator eggs $3 per 100; chicks 10c each. Buff Cochin Bantam eggs from prize winners, 75c per setting. AL HUNSAKER Eggs For Sale! • Light Brahmas. White and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Buff Orpingtons. S. C. Buff, White and Brown Leghorns. R. C. R. I. Reds. Houdans. Columbian and White Wyandottes. B ack Langshans. Eggs, SI.OO Setting $4.00 for 100. . MRS. S. SHIMMIN Lancaster, 3m3 Wiscoonsin