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