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River Faljs Journal
C. 11. Morse, Publisher.
RIVER FALLS, - - WI3.
SUMMARY OF A
WEEK'S EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON
DENSED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items of News Gathered
ficm All Parts of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
The senate committee on Philippines
refused to report the Philippine tariff
bill, known as the Payne bill. This
effectually disposes of the measure.
’l’he Payne bill passed the house by a
vote of 258 to 71.
The treaty between the United
States and the Dominican republic, un
der which the former undertakes to
collect and disburse the customs, reve
nues of the latter, has been favorably
reported in the senate.
Congress will pass a public building
bill appropriating from 116,000,000 to
120,000,000.
Senator Ixxdge offered an amendment
to the rate bill providing nine mem
tnrs for the interstate commerce com
mission each to receive a salary of
$12,000 a year.
Free distribution of aeeds will cease
and the government will save $250,000
a year if congress approves the recom
mendation of the house committee on
agriculture.
A bill introduced in congress to read
just tne salaries of general officers of
the government, to take effect March
4, 1909, proposes the following sal
aries: The president, $75,000; vice
president, $15,000; speaker of the house
of representatives, $12,000; members
of the cabinet, $15,000; senators and
representatives, $7,500.
The prediction that congress will be
able to adjourn by May 1 augurs well
for the railroad rate bill, it-being con
ceded that no prolonged fight will ba
made against it and that a court of re
view probably will be added to the
measure.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The dead in the iMeridian, Miss.,
storm and fire are now estimated at 24
and ihe injured at 46. The property
damage is more than $1,250,000.
James Stephen Hogg, who as gover
nor of Texas waged war against the
trusts and put down the lawless ele
ments of the state, died suddenly xa
Houston.
King Edward was greeted warmly in
Paris, being cheered by crowds, and
entertained President Fallieres and
Premier Rouvier at dinner.
A great chance for American com
merce in Manchuria as a result of Rus
sian development is predicted in a state
department report.
’l’he sultan of Turkey issued orders
for refunding duties on American
school supplies in Beirut, Syria.
The village of Tavernola, Italy, was
swallowed up by Lake Iseo.
Kansas has adopted a plan to teach
boys scientific farming in the rural
schools.
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution have started a movement to
mark the graves of the heroes of the
revolutionary war.
Railroads of every state east of the
Mississippi river and of some states
west are facing legislative reductions
of passenger fares to the two-cert*
basis.
Mark M. Davis, the brakeman shot
by a negro at Springfield, 0., and
whose shooting precipitated the race
riot, is dead.
A hurricane and monster tidal waves
swept over the Society and Tuamotu
islands in the Pacific, causing a loss of
lives estimated from hundreds to 10.-
<IOO. and property damage of possibly
$5,000,000.
The Forty-second street car barns ox
the Metropolitan Railway company,
extending from No. 651 West Forty
second street to the Hudson river, New
York, were destroyed by fire. Loss.
$200,000. One man perished.
The czar has pardoned ex-Lieut.
Schmidt, who commanded the Russian
cruiser Otchakoff during the mutiny at
Sebastopol, and who was recently sen
tenced to death by a court-martial.
Henry L Whitbeck, a physician and
dentist, killed his wife with a hammer
in Buffalo, N. Y., and then blew his
brains out with a rifle.
Judge Benjamin F. Graves, former
chief justice of the Michigan supreme
court, died at his home in Detroit.
Judge Graves was 88 years of age. He
was a judge of the supreme court from
1868 to 1875.
Secretary Shaw strongly opposes the
proposed minting of silver coin for the
Jamestown exposition, seeing therein
the danger of fiat money.
British naval estimates for the en-
call for an expenditure of
$159,347,500 for new ships, a decrease
of $12,500,000.
National school superintendents in
session at Louisville decided to hold
their next meeting in Chicago.
The imprisonment of an American
on the Isle of Pines threatens to bring
on a new conflict between the Cubans
and former residents of the United
States.
Natives of Nanchang are fleeing,
fearing the arrival of European armed
forces as a result of the massacre of
the missionaries.
Fresh attacks on women in all
parts of the city of Chicago inspire
citizens to demand prompt action to
meet the emergency.
The lowa primary bill was defeated
in the state senate at Des Moines by a
vote of 29 to 21.
Rev. George C. Ware, formerly an
Episcopal rector in South Dakota, was
sentenced at Omaha to a year in prison
and fined SI,OOO for participation in a
land fraud.
Mrs. Isaac H. Weikert, residing near
Gettysburg, Pa., accidentally shot and
killed her sister, Miss Eliza Weaver,
a.u d 35 years. Mrs. Weikert was ex
amining a revolver wnich in soma
manner was discharged, the bullet en
tering Miss Weaver’s brain.
Lieut. Gen. John M. Schofield, U. S.
A., retired, former head of the army,
died at St. Augustine, Fla. He was at
tacked with cerebral hemorrhage.
The last half of the business portion
of Stanhope, la., has been destroyed by
fire. The other half was wiped out
by fire earlier in the winter. Incen
diarism is suspected. Loss, $30,000.
The French government refuses par
don to Elliot F. Shepard, the American
automobilist sentenced to prison for
running over a 12-year-old girl.
Jacob Furrod, a Chicago street car
conductor, was crushed to death be
tween his car and a. wagon which he
was aiding in removing from the car
tracks.
Frank Rockefeller, brother of John
D., brought suit in New York for $500,-
000 against brokerage firms and others
the action growing out of the Dennis
on, Prior & Co. failure.
The New Y’ork Life, Mutual and
Equitable Insurance companies have
agreed to accept the recommendation
of the Armstrong committee that new
business be held down to $150,000,000
yearly.
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth have returned to Washing
ton from Cuba, to which place they
journeyed after their wedding.
Tacloban, the* capital of the island of
Leyte, in the Philippine archipelago,
has been destroyed by fire. The finan
cial loss is reported to be $600,000. Tac
loban was the fifth city ot the island.
John R. Walsh, president of the de
funct Chicago National bank, was ta
ken into custody by federal officers in
Chicago on a warrant charging him
with violating the national banking
laws in making false reports to the
comptroller of the currency. He was
released on giving a bond in the sum of
$50,000.
In a letter to Mayor Dunne, in which
be declares himself an out-and-out so
cialist, Joseph Medill Patterson, Chi
cago’s commissioner of public works,
resigned his office.
King Edward started on a two
months’ holiday on the continent. He
will see the kaiser, the president of
France and king of Spain.
A chain of hotels to circle the globe
is projected by a $100,000,006 company
formed in Europe.
Gov. Samuel H. Elrod, of South Da
kota. has issued an appeal to the peo
ple of his state in behalf of the fam
ine sufferers of Japan.
Maj. Gen. Corbin has reached Hono
lulu en route to San Francisco from
the Philippines to take command of
the northern division, with headquar
ters at St. Louis.
_ The Union passenger station at
Sioux Cify, la., and the connecting
terminals passed into the possession
of the Great Northern railroad on the'
payment of $1,250,000.
Steve Adams, a prisoner in » the
Idaho penitentiary, charged with com
plicity in the Steunenberg murdex*
plot, has made a full and detailed con
fession similar to Harry Orchard’s.
Advices from China report the for
mation of secret societies undex* the
banner “Advance China; destroy for
eigners.’’
A shafthouse at the Wolverine
mine, Calumet, Mich., burned, causing
a loss of $50,000.
Patrick, convicted in New York of
the murder of Millionaire Rice, is like
ly to get another reprieve.
Because her hair was turning gray.
Mrs. William Thomas, a young ma
tron of Eleanora, Pa., committed sui
cide. She swallowed caustic potash,
and when a doctor was called threat
ened to kill him if he would not let
her die. ,
Gov. Pattison has suffered a relapse,
the fourth he has had since assuming
the gubernatorial chair, and his
friends are again alarmed over his
condition. The setback is the result
of worry over the riots at Spring
field.
Charles H. Brickenstein, who has re
signed the office of treasurer of Cona
jos county, in the southern part of
Colorado, has confesesd to a shortage
of $62,000.
Orders have been given by the Den
ver fire and police board to Chief of
Police Michael Delaney to prohibit all
boxing matches and glove contests in
that city in future.
Mrs. Lydia Van Sant, mother of for
mer Gov. Samuel Van Sant, of Minne
sota. died at Le Clair, la., aged 94
years. She lived there since 1837.
Henry Henley and wife, aged 65 and
60 years, were killed at a crossing nea-
Carmel, Ind., by a passenger train on
the Monon railroad. They were driving
and did not notice the approaching
train.
Otis Gragg shot and instantly killed
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Bowman, and
fatally wounded his wife at their home
in Somerset, Ky.
The national debt was decreased
over $4,000,000 during the month of
February.
A bill to nationalize the railroads oi
Japan has been favorably reported to
the diet.
Railroads have begun a strenuous ef
fort to prepare themselves and the in
dustries along their lines for a long
coal strike.
An offer of $125,000 from John D.
Rockefeller for a hospital for children
suffering from tuberculosis has been
announced by R. Fulton Cutting, pres
ident of the New York Association for
Improving the Condition or the Poor.
Joseph Wilder, a negro, was con
victed in a St. Louis police court of
having seized and hugged two white
girls on the street, and was fined
SI,OOO, the maximum penalty. He was
unable to pay, and was locked up.
An explosion of nitroglycerin at the
Marietta Torpedo company’s plant,
Williamson, W. Va., wrecked the stor
age building and killed a shooter
named Kerr.
Former Premier Balfour was re
turned to parliament from a London
district by a large majority over the
liberals.
One man was killed and two over
come by smoke in a fire in a Chicago
rooming house.
The Mutual Life Insurance company,
explaining why it withdrew from Mis
souri, says the plan to examine the
company's books was illegal.
The Wheeler elevator was destroyed
by fire in Buffalo, N. Y. The loss on.
♦i»e building and its contents is esti
mated at $175-000.
It is announced that the president
will not be able to go to Atlanta the
last of this month to attend the
Wheeler memorial services.
President Roosevelt authorizes a de
nial of the report that he has invited
John Mitchell and Frank L. Robbins
to confer with him on a way to avert
a coal strike.
A bandit who robbed the Russian
bank at Helsingfors, Finland, was
captured after a desperate resistance
in which he killed four *•
Constable Joseph Slais was shot and
killed by Mrs. Lawrence Baker, in
Chicago, when he called at her house
with an assistant to levy on an execu
tion.
A Chicago woman who withdrew
$2,000 from a bank on hearing rumors
about a possible failure, was robbed
of the whole amount as she kept it at
home.
A short ice crop is quoted by the
head of the ice trust at New York as
an excuse for advancing the price of
ice to consumers.
Ohio railway lines are pieparing to
fight the two-cent fare law, which goes
into effect March 10. *
The Southern Bank & Turst com
pany failed at Fort Smith, Ark., owing
depositors SBO,OOO. It had $54.30 on
hand.
• John F. Wallace, former chief en
gineer of the Panama canal, will build
electric railways for Westinghouse at
a salary of $65,000 a year.
President Roosevelt has notified
troops in the United States to be
ready for service in China. The anti
foreign crusade is more threatening.
Harry Tenny, the prize fighter, died
as a result of the injuries receivexl in
his fight for the bantam-weight cham
pionship with Frankie Neil in x San
Francisco.
Mrs. J. T. Brock, wife ot a farmer, in
the district court at Independence,
Kan., was awarded $5,000 damages for
injuries received in a runaway caused
by an automobile driven by George
Francis, one of the wealthiest men in
Kansas.
Dr. William Hill died in Blooming
ton, 111., aged 77 years. Dr. Hill was
present in a professional capacity al
the birth of William J. Bryan.
The Chicago city council finance
committee voted for an addition of
1,000 patrolmen to the city police force
and appropriated $472,000 fox - their sal
aries to the end of the year.
A prairie fire swept 30 square miles
of the richest farm lands in Rice coun
ty, Kan., resulting in damage estimat
ed at $50,000.
Bandits used nitroglycerin to blow
open the post office safe at Grant Park.
111., securing nearly SSOO in cash and
stamps.
The funeral of former Speaker David
B. Henderson was held in Dubuque, la.
A remarkable tribute was paid to his
memory. Business was suspended
during the hours of his funeral.
Dr. Alfonso Moreira Penna, vice
president of the Brazilian republic, has
been elected president.
Thirty men were drowned by the
wreck off the coast of Norway of the
Norwegian steamer Thor.
The United States Steel corporation
has leased James J. Hill’s ore mines
on Mesaba range, involving possibly
$1,125,000,000.
Congressman Charles B. Landis was
renominated for the sixth time by the
Republicans of the Ninth Indiana con
gressional district. The nomination
was by acclamation.
Seven Baltimore & Ohio railroad en
gineers and conductors were fined four
dollars and costs each for violating the
Sunday law by running trains through*
Uniontown, Pa.
Wesleyan university at Middletown.
Conn., sustained a severe loss by fire
when old North college, containing 150
rooms, was practically destroyed. Loss,
SBO,OOO.
A mob at Springfield, 0., bent on
lynching negro assailants of a white
man, burned dwellings of blacks,
wrecked a saloon and injured two offi
cers. The calling out of troops was
necessary.
Six more houses were set afire in
the race rioting at Springfield. O.»
eight companies of militia being un
able to put down the mob bent on driv
ing all negroes out.
The bituminous coal operators, said
to differ on the wage scale, will hold
a conference at Indianapolis March 19.
French delegates at the Moroccan
conference await the next move of Ger
many, which, it is believed, may ap
peal to a neutral arbiter to decide the
questions at issue.
News of the breaking of the terri
ble drought which for years has para
lyzed the industries of Australia is
brought by the steamship Ventura,
which has just arrived in San Fran
cisco. »
China has taken steps to punish par
ticipants in the massacre of Jesuit
missionaries and British subjects, and
declares its willingness to make repa
ration;
New business of the Equitable Life
Assurance society, owing to the insur
ance scandals, shows a falling off of
$81,000,000 in 1905,'as compared with
the previous year, whi'e the value of
policies surrendered has tripled.
George Kingsbury, grand scribe of
the grand chapter, Royal Arch Masons
of Michigan, died at his home in Cas
sopolis. Mich., from consumption.
Beatrice Osborn, aged five, was
burned to death and Lizzie Osborn,
aged seven, was fatally burned, dying
later, by the explosion of a can of
gasoline with which they were play
ing at Burnett. Ind.
Under Sheriff John E. Sealy was
shofTuxd killed at Hurley. Wis., by
George Greenwood, a Wisconsin Cen
tral operator, who mistook Sealy for
a burglar. Sealy likewise mistook
Greenwood for a burglar.
Gov. Folk says he will use all the au
thority of his office to stop bookmak
ing in Missouri.
The Wisconsin United Commercial
Travelers’ convention will be held In
La Crosse on June 15 and 16.
The newspaper Vita at Rome denies
that Dowager Margherita of Italy is
going to the United States in the
spring.
'Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Olden
burg was married to Prince Eitel Fred
erick, Emperor "William’s second son.
Five bandits wrecked the People s
bank, at Kenney, 111., and made off with
S6OO in gold and silver coin.
COAST DEFENSES.
/
President Roaseve t Urges Congress
to Take Action to Save
the Country.
Washington President Roosevelt
sent a message to congress accompany
ing plans for coast defense prepared
by a joint board of army and navy of
ficers, in which he emphasizes the ne
cessity for further defenses and re
views the history of the defensive
works in this country.
The president calls especial attention
to the recommendation of the board
that the entrance to Chesapeake bay
be added to the list of places in the
United States to be defended. He says
the insular possessions cannot longer
be neglected if the United States de
sires to hold them.
Defenses are recommended for Ma
nila bay, Pearl Harbor, Guantanamo,
Guam, San Juan and Honolulu, be
cause of their strategic locations. De
fenses are recommended for entrance
to the Panama canal.
Prairie Fires.
Austin, Tex. —The disastrous prairie
fires which have been sweeping the
extreme western section of the Pan
handle for several days have entailed
a loss up to the present time of upward
of 551,000,000.
The fire did the most damage in
Lamb and Hockley counties, burning
many acres of land and destroying
hundreds of head of cattle.
Inasmuch as it will be six weeks be
fore the spring grass comes forth, it
has been found necessary for all cattle
men in that section to move their cat
tle into New Mexico for range purposes,
which means considerable loss to them.
It is esti mated. that 500,000 acres of
land have been burned out.
Calls a Coal Conference.
Washington. President Samuel
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor has called a meeting of the
executive council in this city March
19. The matters to be discussed have
not been disclosed, but the fact that
John Mitchell, president of the United
Mine Workers of America, who »is a
member of the council, will be present,
lends color to the belief that the coal
situation will be considered. Pres
ident Gompers has gone to Philadel
phia and New York on matters con
nected with the organization.
Clark Wins.
. Washington.—United States Senator
Clark of Montana won the case
against him in the supreme court of
the United States in which the gov
ernment sought to have canceled pat
ents to 11,400 acres of public lands in
Montana, which were alleged to have
been fraudulently secured. The opin
ion upheld the decision of the circuit
court of appeals for the ninth - circuit.
This was a civil proceeding instituted
by the government against Senator
Clark to secure the cancellation of
eighty-tvro patents of land-issued un
der the timber and stone act.
Burning Gas Well.
Caney, Kansas. —The great gas well
five miles from here in the Indian
Territory, that has been burning since
Feb. 23, when it was struck by light
ning, continues to roar with unabated
fury. The flames forced 150 feet into
the air, are visible forty miles away a t
night. The fire probably is one of the
worst of the kind gas men have ever
had to combat. An attempt to ex
tinguish the flames with steam failed,
and an effort to drop an immense ire i
cap over the well was made, but with
out success.
Rockefeller Denounced.
New York. —Supreme Court Justice
William J. Gaynor of Brooklyn, speak
ingl on “corporate abuses” at the Peo
ple’s Forum in New Rochelle, scath
ingly denounced the man who hides
aw?y rather than go into court to tes
tify.
Although the judge mentioned no
names, there were many in the audi
ence who construed the language as re
ferring to John D. Rockefeller, for
whom many process severs have been
hunting for weeks.
Opera House Burns.
Des Moines, la. —Fire of unknown
origin destroyed the Grand opera
house and did $35,000 damage to the
Observatory building. The total loss
will aggregate SBO,OOO, partially cov
ered by insurance. The effects of an
opera company were destroyed.
Open to Compromise.
St. Petersburg—lnformation received
in diplomatic circles here confirms the
previous reports to the effect that
France is prepared to make concessions
on the question of the Bank of Moroc
co if Germany will yield on the ques
tion of the Moroccan police. Only on
on these lines, it is added, is a compro
mise considered possible.
Longworths Return.
Washington.—Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth returned to Washington
from their honeymoon trip to Cuba.
Mr. Stone, chief .usher at the White
House, and Frederick, the Longworth
footman, were the only persons on
hand to meet the bridal couple.
Putting on the Lid.
Des Moin?s, lowa.—Sunday theaters
and Sunday baseball evidently are
doomed in lowa. The senate of lowa
passed the Garst bill by a vote of 30 to
to 4 prohibiting the amusements men
tioned, and all concert and athletic
amusements to which an admission is
charged. As the senate is regarded as
the most liberal branch of the assem
bly. it is believed that the bill is sure
to promptly pass the house. Within
two hours after the bill had passed the
senate protests were coming by tele
graph from all of the larger cities.
Fatal Fall.
St. Cloud. —Henry Haselkampis dead
as the result of a fall sustained while
unloading beer kegs from a brewery
wagon. Haselkamp is the driver for a
local brewery, and*while taking kegs
from his wagon slipped on the ice and
fell, striking his forehead. He bled
quite profusely at the time of the acci
dent, but continued his work. The
next day, however, he became uncon
scious and since then had grown worse
rapidly until he died. The doctors
were in doubt as to whether death re
sulted from a fracture of the skull or
from cerebral hemorrhage.
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Great Demand for Labor.
Milwaukee. Ferdinand Hennings
states that in the 16 years he has con
ducted a labor agency the demand for
all classes of labor has never been
equal, at this season of the year, to
what it is now. Men in the woods are
in big demand also at some of the saw
mills, wages ranging from $26 to S4O
per month and board. Common labor
is in heavy demand in the city and
men who can handle shovels are re
ceiving from $1.85 to $2 per day.
Applications for farm hands are not
usually made much before April 1, but
single men and married couples are
much needed. All classes of hotel,
restaurant and domestic labor are
scarce and wages higher than last
year.
Corset Steel Saves Womna.
Spooner.—James McGraw shot and
killed Ed. Cameron, a saloon keeper,
after which he went to Mrs. McGraw’s
room and shot her. Her corset steel de
flected the bullet and saved her life.
McGraw escaped, and an hour later ap
peared at the home of Winsor Pleine.
on the outskirts of town, and asked
permission to warm himself, secured
a butcher knife and stabbed himself,
in the neck, causing instant death.
Two Acres Will Cost $50,000.
Kenosha. —The board of commission
ers appointed by the circuit court de
cided that the Chicago and Milwaukee
Electric Railway company must pay
the Thomas B. Jeffery Automobile
company $50,508 for a little over two
acres of land needed for the right of
way of the company to Milwaukee.
The Jeffery company demanded $200,-
000, claiming it intended to use the
land for factory purposes.
Falls on Circular Saw.
Sturgeon Bay.—Capt. Hans Eliason,
a resident of this city, met with a
frightful death while at work in .t
portable sawmill in Nasewaupee, a
town a few* miles from here. While
working around the circulai- ’aw he
fell on the rapidly revolving instru
ment, and was almost cut in two
lengthwise, being disemboweled befou
the eyes of his companions. Death
followed shortly after.
To Colonize Great Tract.
Marinette. —It is reported that a
deal was recently closed for 20,000
acres of land in Menominee and Delta
counties in the upper peninsula. The
land will be used for colonization pur
poses iind was purchased through the
authorities of St. Norbert’s college of
Depere. The intention is to bring over
to this country a large colony of Hol
landers.
Broke Her Neck.
Milwaukee. —Mrs. Frances Gaszinski,
58 years old. stepped on hei- dress while
descending a flight, of stairs at the
home of her daughter, 825 Fifth ave
nue, and fell headlong to the first
floor. Her neck was broken and death
followed immediately.
The News Condensed.
La Crosse. —Flames that started in
the photographic department of the
La Crosse Engraving company caused
damage to the amount of $55,000.
Madison —Wisconsin state institu
tions find it hard under the new civil
service law to get men. women and
girls- for menial tasks.
Ashland. —From all points on Lake
Superior come i eports of shortage in
the ice crop. i
Beloit. —John Halom, a farmer, es
caped unhurt when struck by a North
western train. He was knocked 100
feet, and there was nothing left of his
horses and carriage. He had on three
suits of underclothes, two vests and
two overcoats.
Merrill. —There is bad money in cir
culation here, and the police of that
city are making a strenuous effort to
find the man that “shoved the queer.”
The counterfeit is a silver dollar and
is so perfect that it is hard to detect.
Oshkosh. —William Libbey Lumber
comapny, manufacturers of sash, doors
and blinds, has gone into liquidation.
Its liabilities are about $500,000.
Manitowoc. —The body of E. J. Mor
gan, a millionaire lumberman of Osh
kosh. was found in the river here.
Morgan disappeared from his home De
cember 20.
La Crosse. —Henry T. Waters, for
the past 30 years a large cigar manu
facturer of this city, is dead of Bright’s
disease, aged 68 years.
West Salem. —Rev. Mr. Fehlandt,
pastor of the Congregational church in
this city, will make a tour of the state,
in an automobile and carry on an ac
tive temperance campaign. He will be
accompanied by a male quartette.
La Crosse. —The Wisconsin United
Commercial Travelers’ convention will
be held in La Crosse on June 15
and 16.
Milwaukee. —Attorney Olaf I. Rove,
has received the appointment of vice
consul of the new kingdom of Nor
way for the state of Wisconsin, thus
changing the headquarters of the vice
consulate from Madison to Milwaukee.
West Bend. —Edward Glantz, of this
place, one of the two United States
deputy marshals, has been appointed
chief deputy, to succeed the late Al
bion Johnston. William Guy, an old
time conductor, on the Northwestern
road, has been chosen to the position
made vacant by Glantz’ promotion.
Portage. —Six farmers along the Fox
river have started suit against Dr.
Jos. Chandler, owner of the Pardee
ville dam, for damages to their land
by an overflow’.
Fall River. —Fred Smith’s store was
entered by burglars and S3OO in jew*-
elry and merchandise stolen.
Racine. —Because the liquor license
in Racine has been increased from
S2OO to SSOO a year, it is believed that
there will be 40 saloons fewer than
formerly after July 1. At present
there are 139 places where liquor is
sold. The smaller dealers in the out
skirts admit that unless the price of
beer is decreased by the brewers they
cannot pay the SSOO and must quit.
Baraboo. —William Ellis, a pioneer
of Wisconsin, died here, aged 86 years.
Mr. Ellis was born in England, and
came to America in 1844, locating in
Milwuakee, where he conducted a book
store for 40 years.
GETTING CORRECT START.
Not Necessary to Begin with Elab>
orate Equipment in Win Suc
cess with. Poultry.
It is not necessary to build elaborate
houses or to have them furnished with
the latest patented trap nests, roosts,
etc. In point of usefulness, a plain
building, warm, well-ventilated, and
well lighted is to be preferred. I pre
fer to divide the chickens into
flocks of 25, giving each flock a sepa
rate yard, and housing all in one long
building, divided into as many rooms
as there are flocks, by putting in parti
tions of wire netting with a two-foot
board partition at the bottom. An
orchard is an ideal location for the
poultry yard, says the Orange Judd
Farmer, furnishing shade for the fowls
during the hot weather. and
the fruit trees are benefited by the
chickens destroying numerous injuri
ous insects. Face the houses south if
possible and see that they have enough
windows to give abundant light. Con
struct the nests and roosts so they may
be removed to facilitate cleaning and
do not place the roosts so high that
the fowls are injured in flying down.
A walking board is desirable where
the nests must be high up.
To keep the hens laying it is neces
sary to feed intelligently and see they
get plenty of exercise. A fat hen will
not lay and if the chickens are com
pelled to work lor their food they will
be kept in proper condition. I feed
all kinds of grain and vegetables avail
able, aiming always to give a variety
of food. A mash of grain, cooked vege
tables and tpble scraps constitutes th*
morning mtal; in the evening grain
is fed. Milk is one of the best foods
to produce tfggs, and green bone
should be fed two or three times a
w’eek. Grit must be provided at all
times and nothing is better than brok
en crockery. The chickens perfer it
to the commercial article, but for a
large flock its preparation would re
quire too much work.
Cleanliness is one of the chief req
uisites of success, so the houses,
nests and yards should be cleaned
frequently, the houses/ whitewashed
and insect powder used freely. Clean
out the droppings every day, oil the
roosts frequently, and provide clean
material for the nests. If this is done
there will be no trouble from lice, but
if filth is allowed to accumulate, the
mites will multiply rapidly and cause
no end of trouble. I change nesting
material every two weeks and when
putting in the new straw sprinkle it
liberally with insect powder. A dirt
floor is best for the hen house and
should be raised several inches above
the outside level so it may be kept
dry.
THE FATTENING COCP.
Way in Which a Grocer’s Box May
Be Utilized—A Dry-Mash
Bin on Tap.
The fattening coop illustrated in
Fig. 1 is handy for fattening fowls.
A grocery box has
the front and bot
eij tom removed.
The front is then
fitted with tw’o
bars and wire netting, as shown. The
bars permit easy feeding and water
ing, while the absence of any bottom
permitr the coop to be set aside and the
shelf cleaned. A long shelf could have
coops set along its whole length, leav
ing one vacant space. The first coop
can be set on this vacant space, its
place on the shelf
cleaned off, the
next coop set over •
on this cleaned •
space, and so on.
The “dry mash”
has come to stay. The hens cannot
gorge themselves upon it, and so get
overfat. Keeping bins of it constant
ly before the fowls does away with
half the former work of feeding. This,
with scratch feed in the litter, solves
the problem of feeding.
The Farm Journal suggests that an
easily made bin for dry feed (mixed
corn meal oat-
meal > brail, mid
dlings and meat
'a—pjs meal) , can be
made by tak
ing a small grocery box and sawing
it diagonally (along the dotted lines)
as shown in Fig 11. Then nail a board
along the upper half of the opening
see Fig. 111. The writer has such bins
in use and they work well.
STOCK SAYINGS.
Never use dirty bedding for the
dairy cows, for the dirt will find its
way into the milk.
Sojne clover hay and roots should be
stored near the hog house so as to be
readily available food for the swine.
Burn over the feed lot every few
weeks, as a means of preventing hog
cholera. Scatter straw over the lot
and burn it.
In the dairy a cow may be consid
ered a machine for the purpose of
converting coarse feed into a refined
product called milk.
The young stock should be given
plenty of good bright hay and some
bran and middlings, to keep them
growing and make good bone.
If the Coat Fits.
Seo that hen changing her feet to.
prevent their freezing. Her comb is
frost-bitten already. Here are her
winter quarters. Well ventilated.
Like a summer house. Blizzards sweep
through grandly. See the bare corn
cobs and the ice! Let’s collect the
eggs. Lots of money in eggs! Why,
not one? Chase her, she doesn’t pay.
What, nothing in her crop? Where’s
that corn I gave her yesterday? I’ll
have her for a stew; she’s too old and
tough to roast.—Orange Judd Faimer.
Winter Wheat Area.
The newly seeded area of winter
wheat is estimated at 31,341,000 acres,
an increase of 0.6 per cent, over the
area sown in the fall of 1904. The con
dition of winter wheat was recently
94.1, as compared with 82.9 in 1904,
86.6 in 1903, and a average of
91.5.
Sheep carry their coats with them
continually, yet they need dry quar
ters, lots of fresh air, and also a sup
ply of fresh drinking water, where it
will not freeze, and is handy to run
for as they want it
NERVOUSDYSFEPSIA
A Desperately Serious Case Cured toy
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
Brought to the very verge of fitarna
tion by the rejection of all nourishment,
her vitality almost destroyed, the re
covery of Mrs. J. A. Wyatt, of No. 1189
Seventh street, Des Moines, lowa,
seemed hopeless. Her physicians utterly
failed to reach the seat of the difficulty
and death must have resulted if she had
not pursued an independent course sug
gested by her sister’s experience.
Mrs. Wyatt says: “ I had pain in the
region of the heart, palpitation and
shortness of breath so that I could not
walk very fust. My head ached very
badly and I was seized with vomiting
spells whenever I took any food. A doc
tor was called who pronounced the,
trouble gastritis, but he gave me no re
lief. Then I tried a second doctor with
out benefit. By this time I had become
very weak. I could not keep the most
delicate broth on my stomach, and at
the end of a month I was scarcely more
than skin and bone and was really starv
ing to death.
“Then I recalled how much benefit my
sister had got from Dr. Williams’Pink
Pills and decided to take them in place
of the doctor’s medicine. It proved a
wise decision for they helped mo as
nothing else Lad done. Soon I could
take weak tea and crackers and steadily
more nourishment. In two weeks I was
able to leave my bed. Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills were the only thing that
checked the vomiting and as soon as thaw
was stopped my othei* difficulties left me.
I have a vigorous appetite now and am
able to attend to all the duties of my
home. I praise Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills
for Pale People to all my friends because
I am thoroughly convinced of their
merit.” •
Dr. Williams* Pink Pills are sold by all
druggistsand by the Dr. Williams Med
icine Co., Schenectady, N.Y.
Caught on the Rebound.
Slimm —What are you going to have for
dinner to-day, Mrs. Hasher? I’m hungry
as a wolf.
Mrs. Hasher—We are going to have
lamb stew, Mr. Sliinm.
“What! again? I’m tired of lamb!”
“Huh! Then you can’t be hungry ■> •
wolf.” —Columbus Dispatch.
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MISTAKE ABOUT FATHER.
Boys Thought He Was to Be Pitied,
But Found They Were Mis
taken.
At the Waldorf they are telling this
story of a Pittsburg millionaire who i»
over 70, and the way he tooled his son
and nephew on a recent visit to the city
of the Great White Way. The two young
men dined with "father” every evening,
and then watched him take the elevator
to his quarters, relates the New York
Tribune.
“Too bad lather has to go to bed at
nine every evening,” said the son.
“He doesn’t have much fun, docs he?”
returned the nephew.
"Wonder if he goes to sleep right away
or if he’d like us to stay and talk to him?’*
from the son.
“Let's go up and see,” said the nephew,
feeling the full grip of compassion.
They found his shbes outside the door
waiting for the coming of the bootblack,
and there was no light in the transom.
“Poor old man, he doesn’t have a
very good time over here,” they chorused.
Then they went out into the night in
a cab, and toward midnight turned into
one of the gilded mirrored lobster places.
When they were finally seated about a
table and had given the waiter his or
der, they looked about the room. The
first individual to meet their astonished
gaze was “father,” in full evening dress,
{louring champagne into a glass which was
leld bj’ an actress.
"“How about the shoes in front of your
door?” they asked him afterward.
“It’s a pity a man of my age and money
can’t have two pairs of shoes, my chil
dren,” he said, with a wink. “Those were
my old shoes.”
A writer says: “Nothing is best
achieved by indirection.” The workings cl
a corkscrew would seem to refute tlus
otherwise plausible theory. —Chicago Daily
News.
A NECESSARY EVIL.
Experience of a Minister Who Tried
to Think That of Coffee.
“A descendant of the Danes, a na
tion of coffee drinkers, I used coffee
freely till I was 20 years old,” writes
a clergyman from lowa. “At that time
I was a student at a Biblical Institute,
and suddenly became aware of t’. e fact
that my nerves had become demoral
ized, my brain dull and sluggish and
that insomnia was fastening its hold
upon me.
“I was loath to believe that these
things came from the coffee I was
drinking, but at last was forced to that
conclusion, and quit it.
“I was so accustomed to a hot table
beverage and felt the need of it so
much, that after abstaining from cof
fee for a time and recovering my
health, I went back to it. I did this
several times, but always with disas
trous results. I had about made up my
mind that coffee v/as a necessary evil.
“About this time a friend told me
that I would And Postum Food Coffee
very fine and in many respects away
ahead of coffee. So I bought, some and,
making it very carefully according to
the directions, we were delighted to
find that he had not exaggerated in the
least. From that day to this we have
liked it better than the old Kind of
coffee or anything else in the way of
a table drink.
“Its use gave me, in a very short
time, an increase in strength, clear
ness of brrin and steadiness of nerves;
and sleep, restful and restoring, came
back to me.
“I am thankful that we heard of
Postum, and shall be glad to testify
at any time to the good it has done
me.” Name given by Postum Co., Bat
tle Creek, Mich.
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