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T\ : E WASHBURN TIMES. Volume 11. Number 37. The Largest And Best Line of C h i!drens BOOKS. Ever Shown in the City at Prices Lower than the Lowest. Come in and loch over our Stock. Frost 6c Spies, Washburn, Wis. THE i HEADLIGHT >- IS A GOOD SMOKE. TRY IT. .. . \ , ■ . Me* 4 ' - " ' G. Arcade Corner. Peterson & H anson Have Been Acknowledged Leda ers in the handling of / Clothing and G3 n i’s Furnishing® for Years. Go to them for Correct Prices, -T"VV 111, I * ■ ua a®imai ■■■■! T<rnnim ■■*'**" Proper Styles, and Good ' W |,I r rw -' w-mggßt3gJfc: .-jwß3aßgaacgggMgsaßga Treatment. ’h HouseFurxisher I ASHLAND,WIS. COES IT PAY? Don't know until I Try it. You try it and we will show you that it Pays to Buy Furniture Mere. Four Car loads of the Latest Style of Furniture just being uuloaded. Parlor Furniture in Leather, Velour, Silk Velour, Imitation Leather and Spanish Leather. Iron Beds, Brass Beds, Quartered Sawed Oak Bedroom Suit $19.00 and up. Radiant Home Coal Stoves and Kansfes. Air Tight 20 inch wood stove, double lined, SI.9S WASHBURN. WISCONSIN. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1902. SEN. SABIN IS DEAD Passes Awav at Auditorium Hotel in Chicago. WAS VERY WELL KNOWN HERE Was the Promote.' of Railroad Enter prises While in. this Vicinity—His Death Marks tho Close of a RcmarkaMc Career. Ex-Senator D. M. Sabin, who operated in these parts for three or four years, and whose enter prises included the Washburn, Bayfield & Iron River Railroad, and several dependencies, is dead. The news of his death is convey ed in dispatches from Chicago, Chicago, Dec. 23. — Former United States Senator Dwight M. Sabin of Minnesota died sud denly early this (Tuesday) morn ing in his apartments at the Au ditorium annex. Mr. Sabin had been a guest of the Hotel since Nov 2, being ac companied by his wife and daughter. He w T as stricken with heart failure at 11 o’clock last night, and Mrs. Sabin promptly notified the office and a doctor was sumwond. He found Mr. Sabin in a dying condition and beyond medical aid. The patient remained conscious for upward of an hour, and the end was peaceful. Shortly after his term in the senate closed he divorced his wife, who had been very popular in capital circles. Mr. Sabin at one time was reputed to be worth $10,000,000, although his fortune was much diminished at the time of his death. After the separation from his first wife in 1899 Senator Sabin remarried, and the second Mrs. Sabin was with him when he died. Dwight M, Sabin was born in Manlius, 111., April 25, 1843. He was the eldest son of Horace Carver Sabin and Marie Eliza beth Webster (Sabin). The Sabin family were of Scotch de scent and came to this country in 1740. The father of Dwight M. Sabin was an extensive breed er of blooded cattle in Illinois. He was one of the original abolitionists, and his home was an important station on what was known as the “underground railroad” for conveying fugitive slaves from the south to freedom in Canada. His health failing he moved to Connecticut, where young Dwight M. went to school and managed his father’s lum bering business to a great ex tent. At the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, he enlisted, but was rejected for active service by the examining surgeons. Latter he was assigned to the quarter master’s department and was afterwards given a first-class clerkship in the third auditor’s office in Washington, where he remaind until January, 1863. At that time he was transferred to the commissary department of Beaufort’s cavalry and reached the scene of action immediately prior to the battle of Gettysburg. He remained with this brigade during many subsequestengage ments, following Lee’s retreat ing army. Tfje only high grad© Caning Powder mad© at a moderate price. v - GLaLJjyii v;\ n 13 ip Y? ■' . In 1867 he came to Minnesota in search of health, and in the following year engaged in the lumber business in Stillwater. He entered politics as a member of the state senate in 1870, serv ing until 1883, when he succeed ed William Windom as United States Senator. While a mem ber of the United States senate he was chairman of the railway committee and a member of the Indian and pension committees. While not an orator, he was a hard-working and effective mem ber of the Minnesota delegation. He was especially active in secur ing the betterments to lake navi gation entailed by the improv ments at Sault Ste. Marie, the improvements on the Mississippi and other rivers. In the councils of the republi can party Mr. Sabin always took a prominent part. Before his election as United States senator he was Minnesota’s member of the national committee, and on the death of Governor Jewell, in December, 1883, became chair man and presided over the con vention in Chicago in 1884 which nominated James G. Blaine for the presidency . Since his re tiremdnt from politics he has been actively engaged in busi ness, especially in the lines of lumber and iron. Mr. Goedeke’s Letters. A few days ago Wm. Goedeke, of the 99 Cent store placed on the tele phone post in front of his store a small box which bore the label “Santa Claus U. >S. Mail Box.” The dox was simply exhibited for sale, aQd imagine Mr.Goedeke’s sur prise on looking into it after it had been on display for two or three days to find six or eight letters addressed to Santa Claus, and bear ing the signatures of the little peo ple of Washburn, telling “dear old Santa just vfrfcaf they wanted for Christmas. One little girl only wanted a doll. Another was not quite so modest, and enumerated a dozen very nice presents, ail of which she expected. The wants of these little ones were numerou enough, and Mr. Goedeke in his kind heartedness will likelp supply them all. Fire at Hayward. The Ferguson house burned at Hayward this week. The hotel was the best one in the place, and was a popular place for the travel ing public. It is estimated that the loss to the property will be about $5,000. G. E. Vandercook, special repre sentative of the Milwaukee Sentinel, was in the city Saturday. Mr. Vandercook has been writing a series of very interesting articles on. the subject of grain inspection and the Minnesota plan of inspecting in Wisconsin elevators. The subject is cne that should have the attention of our legislature at the coming ses sion. Recently Mr. Vandercook visited Bayfield and vicinity and furnished for his paper a very com plete and interesting article on the children and their homes, that were sent here from New York last sum mer. Mr. Vandercook found that eight of the children were in the homes on the Redciiffe reservation, and that six of them were in the hands of Indian families. While he speaks of the Indians who have the children as the very best kind of natives, still he very correctly says: “While the rules of conventional ity at e somewhat disturbed to see a blue-eyed, flaxen-haired, beautiful baby girl nesting in the lap of a swarthy, dark-skined Indian woman, prattling away in the tongue of the Chippewas, her kindly treatment and enjoyment of the child leads one to conclude, thaft motherly instincts and motherly love and affection are a.ways alike, wherever found, what ever the condition, race or color. A number have already written to the Eastern institution to send on papers of final adoption, so that their claims t) the children will nut be subject to to dispute. ” The children are all in good hands and aside from those with the Indians, have splendid homes among white families. PLEASE, MR. SANTA! Won’t Tou 15e Good to Some of These Men? WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE. A Few Pointers for the Good Old Man With the Pack When he Makes the Distribution of His Christmas Presents. Charlie Arnold: Someone who who can beat him playing cribbage. Captain O’JNeil: *Some one to look carefully after the young ladies while he is away this winter. Dan Maxcy: Someone to stop people cutting Christmas trees and stove wood off his land near town. Chris. Pederson: A dog that won't howl uights. Fred Terrill: A method for re covering the democracy of Bayfield county, and a system for collecting campaign funds for the county com mittee. L. N. Clausen: Anew law which will prohibit campaigning tor a term of ninety-nine years. Fred T. Yates: To be Municipal Judge, providing my friend Warden doesn’t run. Judge Warden: To be Municipa' Judge again, providing my friend Ya tes doesn’t want it. “After you my dear Gaston.” Treasurer Lee: A taxpayer that doesn’t kick on the size of his receipt. Chairman Nelson: An extension of the hunting reason beyond the meagre twenty days limit. John Gibson: A recurrence oc the days when people told him their troubles about the coa) question. Chief Wescott: A few hard luck stories to listen to. George Pox: Lots of Merry Christmases. I. Bierman: Broken harnesses and badly worn shoes. M. A. Sprague: Good loogging weather and plenty of cars. T. C. McWilliams: A dress suit. N. M. Oscar, C. B. Simpson, and Nels Myhre: The happy days that come after everyone has got through saying: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Ralph Manning: Someone to help him walk the floor nights—it’s lonesome to be up all alone. Some of the boys: More stag parties. Some of last fall’s politicians: A few more world’s to conquer. William Olson: A pair of vases. Dr. Mitche'l' A nice solid girl. The property owners: Someone to pay their taxes for them. The merchants: Merry Christ mas all the year ’round: Our undertakers: More deaths. District Attorney McLeod. A re turn of the cow bell season. Asa McMullen: A big long stock ing for my Christmas presents. Dr. Hebberd: A nice quiet even- mg. Owl Club veterans; A few new applicants for membership to pay the bills. D. W. Corning: Partners who will help incorporate the yarn spinning club. L. A. Simonson: He wants noth ing, but is thankful that he is alive. Martin Sweet: Those beautiful summer days of weeks ago. E. Bergman: Jush a little bunch of holly. Cal, Wiliey: A good partner for a game of seven-up. John Clavk and Lance Goode nough: A name for that animal they shot during the deer season. John Walsh: Another chance to vote for Rose. Clarence Oscar: Only a bunch of lilacs, to pluck them and bring them to you. John Froseth: A soft seat at the Owl Club. John Donahue: Just a game of keno. Ed. Williams: A walk down as far as Nash and back before break fast. Wj, Us, and You: , Just a little the best of everything there is going. We are now selling the celebrated brand of Clue House Coffee. Raarup Bros. PRICE: FIVECESP 1 52.00 -V -***" i T!ie Future of Northern Wisconsin. j In answer to the question: “Ts the present farm land movement in to Northern Wisconsin of a perman ent character likely to continue?” A prominent real estate dealer, who, from years of persona, observation and experience in Northern Wiscon sin, is probably as good a prophit as there is under the sun, gives the Bee in a personal interview, the follow ing interesting statement. “Certainly it is permanent, and it is bound to continue. Just look at the facts: The population of the United States is increasing at the rate of four thousand daily. We are growing at the rate of one million five hundred thousand a year. We have doubled in every 30 or 40years of history. Inside of 50 years we will one hundred and fifty million. Where are they going? Are we sending them away? Are they emigrating to other lands? No, we are taking care of them at home. Where is this extra million and a half a year going? Where else but into the new lands north and west, and into Northern Wisconsin above all? Where else are cheap lands, fertile soil, healthful climate, trsnsportation facilities to good markets, and conditions more favor able to human energy and enterprise so abundant and -ready to hand as right here? “Is there anything of a boom character about such a condition as this? Not a bit. It is not only normal and natural, it is necessary, it is compelled. What else can this population do, where else can they go? The cities cannot absorb the fifty million increase of the next thirty years. The bulk of the popu lation must be engaged in produc tive. occupations. They must be at work providing that great and funda mental necessity of mankind every where —food for subsistence. Th ft great absorbing industry, the most important from a practical material standpoint is the production of food, and food comes from the soil. The cities flourish and prosper and our civi’ation is enduring only when the vast c f % the people arc cm the soil, toiling the sweat of their brow to produce food on one hand, and the raw materials for manufac ture, trade and transportation, oc the. other. The bulk of the fifty million human increase must go to the soil, and they pour into the north and west naturally as water Sows down hill. This is as normal and natural as the fact that water seeks a level. “Population has been pouring re cently into Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota into the Dakotas, at a rate that has excited national comment. But it is owing simply to the most natural causes. Here is a vast fertile empire at prices a quarter or a tenth of the prices which prevail in thickly settlec communities. The people are simply taking advantage of generous op portunities They are learning where the opportunies are located.’ —Phillips Bee. Simonson down with Typhoid Fever, but Arntson and the usual force of clerks, art still on deck to fill all orders fo: everything good to eat at lowest prices. How was it, four advertisments last week claimed to have “every thing good to eat,” while before onl\ Arntson & Simonson’s add has ap peared with that MOTTO. Ola, dat mens dat Arntson & Sim o ison has fir times so good tengs t* eat sora de rest. How much Soap does Arntson A Simonson give for 25c? Ola, A tank twelve big Jumps. And how much coffee for $1.00? Osa, dis veek caffe c'hep, 16 pund. "What is stockfish worth per lb? Ola, best norsk Fisk 111 c a pund What other good things will Arnt son & Simonson have for Christmas' Ola, Gjet Ost, Garamel Ost, Licr - burger Cheese, IJrr, Tyteber, h times so good som oders hav. Telephone number please? Ola, Ni eg Nity. Yours to please. ARfNTSEN & SIMONSOf. Leading Groceries.