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THE WASHBURN TIMES.
VOLUME 14. NUMBER 4.
JioW is the Jitne to fix Up.
jtota i$ the time to bay yodr paint &tid White
w&jh brashes of ns.
We will close out our entire stock of
brushes at first cost. 20 .to 35 will buy a
good large brush from us.
We also have a few gallons of paint which
will be closed out at
25c Per Quart.
Frost <5 Spies,
Washburn, Wis.
V 0 f THE * 0 ' <
ARCADE RESTAURANT
Is again being conducted under the
direct management o f
0 f ed. williams, proprietor. 0
And will give every effort to be clean and
up-to-date, serving only
The Best of Good Things to ILat.
Meals and Lunches at all Hburs.
We will endeavor to satisfy all the wants of the inner man,
and conduct everything on a basis of a
v A First Class Restaurant. a
A STACK OF FAVORITES
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G. A. HE RING. #
THE HOrjSEFUKHISHER
..TALK..
House Cleaning and the Easter Holidays are at
hand. You ask where can we buy furniture cheapest.
Well because we have just received four car
loads of
Iron Beds, Mattresses, Parlor Suits
and Steel Ranges,
We will have to sell cheap, for Cash or on Time.
We can give you hundreds of references as to
our promptness and fair dealing with our customers.
nnHSEfoRNISHER
Ashland, - -
WASHBURN, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1905.
BUILDING THE ROAD
Work Done on New Railroad
to Cornicopia.
WILL BE FINISHED IN 60 DAYS
Port Wing People Want Road to Their
Town.— Talk That Omaha People are
Interested, and May Wish to Ac
quire New Line.
Work is being pushed at a lively
pace on the Bayfield, Lake Shore
add W estern Railroad, and T. L.
Stevenson, of Cornucopia, who has
been the chief promoter of the en
terprise, says that trains will be
running into Cornucopia inside of
sixty days. W. H. Johnson, of Su
perior, has the contract for grading
and bridge work for the last five or
six miles of the road. Two miles
was finished last fall, and this to
gether with the old grade that is be
ng utilized can all be had in shape
by July Ist. The steel for the new
road has been provided for, and the
conductor be hollering “all
aboard for Cornucopia” before the
summer is half gone. It is the hope
of those connected with the road, as
well as with the people in the north
ern end of the county, to push the
newline through to Port Wing this
fall, and this maybe accomplished,
The Port Wing' people are very
anxious to continue the line on from
Cornucopia and may be able to make
the necessary arrangements to do
so. In connection with the new
road there is a good deal of talk that
the Omaha line is interested in the
proposition, although this cannot be
confirmed. It is said that the
Omaha is furnishing the steel rails,
and it is known that some of the
officials have investigated the new
line. '’Should the Omaha take a
financial interest, *it is thought it
would be their purpose to continue
the line along the south shore of
Lake Superior. This would give
the company a direct line from Ash
land, Washburn and Bayfield to the
head of the lakes, and would enable
them to compete more successfully
for the business between the two
points. Besides they would be tap
ping anew rich strip of country
that would furnish them a great
deal of new business.
Notes of M. E. Church.
An Illustrated Sermon will be
given next Sunday evening. The
subject, is “What Christianity is Do
ing.” A series of large hand paint
ed pictures upon this subject have
been secured for the oceassion.
They set forth the power of Christ
ianity in uplifting and improving
the Jives of people, and thus making
possible the family circle and the
home, Parents are especially in
vited.
The subject Sunday moaning at
10:30 will be the “Loving Kindness
of God.”
The Ladies Aid society will meet
next-Wednefiday afternoon with Mrs.
Chas. Ewer.
The Easter exercises passed off
very pleasantly with good attendance
both morning and evening. The
church was tastefully decorated.
Much credit was kue to those who
prepared and carried out the pro
grom.
Will Interest Many
Every person should know that
good health is impossibleiif the
kidneys are deranged. Foley’s
Kidney Cure will cure kidmey and
bladder disease in every form, and
will build up and strengthen these
organs so that they will perform
their function properly. No danger
of Brights disease of diabetes if
Foleys Kidney Cure taken in time
Frost & Spies.
Cajumet
Perfect In quality.
Moderate In prlc^.
HINES MILL GOING
ftig Mill Starts in Season’s Kuns
Last Monday.
OTHERS TO START NEXT WEEK.
The Thompson Lumber Company Will Com
mence Sawmg Next Monday, and
Akeley & Sprague Will Likely al
so Start About Same Time,
The Edward Hines Lumber Com
pany’s big mill started running
Monday. The ferenoon was devoted
to getting the big machinery in
moving order, and in the afternoon
everything skirted going under full
pressure. The Thompson Lumber
Company will likely start their mill
next Monday morning, and while
the Akeley & Sprague people have
not yet announced just when they
would commence sawing, yet they
will likely start things going some
time next week. The Hines mill
has a full season’s cut, and the other
two mills will likely run the greater
part of the season.
Bank President Goes-Wrong.
Frank G. Bigelow, president of
the First National bank of Milwau
kee, and a man widely known m
business and social circles is a de
faulter to the bank in a sum amount
ing to $1,2u0,000, and has resigned
his position at the request of the
board of directors of the bank. His
arrest followed
The money was taken from the
bank at different periods and the
books falsified to avoid discovert’.
According to the directors, Henry
Goli, assistant cashier of the bark
and other employes, were involvtd
in the crime.
The news of the defalcation was
broken to the directors on Saturday
night. The full amount appropriat
ed by Mr. Bigelow was $1,500,000
but he has’ made restitution in the
shape of real estate and securities
sufficient to reduce the amount
to 1.200,000.
The board of directors decided ai
once to meet the issue in a straight
forward manner and not to deceive
the public in any particular. They
accordingly formulated a pledge
which was immediately signed bv
members of the board, whose aggre
gate will probably aproximate
$25,000,000 to more than make good
the shortage made by Mr. Bigelow’s
act. The capitol stock of the bank
is $1,500,000 and the undivided sur
plus amounts to $1,200,000, The
personal guaranty of the directors
more than covers the defalcation,
and with the surplus and undivided
profits which the bank carries over
and above its capitol, it is announced
that the bank is more solid than it.
was before Mr. Bigelows defalcation
became known. Charles F. Pfister
heads the guaranty list with
$600,000.
An intimate friend of President
Bigelow said; '‘Wheat speculation
has cost the Bigelows their name!
and the bank a large sum of money.
It is a family tragedy, as well as a
shock to business circles of the city.
The father Frank G. Bigelow, had
Chicago speculative connections
with the firm of Tracy & Cos., of
which his son, Gordon Bigelow was
a member.
“In the late Armour-Gates wheat
battle and the sharp fluctuations of
the market, which have come during
the last few days, Bigelow Sr., and
B.gelow Jr , were badly caught.
The faiiiily name has been of the
highest in the city and the failure
will come as a shock to all who
know them.”
The board of directors of the bank
also decided that no attempt should
be made to shield the chief defaulter
and his associates in the crime from
their full measure of punishment,
and they will be prosecuted to the
full extent of the law.
•
Voice Culture
Tuesday and Friday a. m. at the
Hotel Washburn. I have time for
three more pupils.
Victor ST^eator.
The entire company of “My
Friends From Arkansaw” is said to
be capable. You can judge for
yourself by seeing them at the Op
era House, Tuesday night, May 9th.
TOMKINS CHAIRMAN
Eileen Man at Head of the Cotin tv
Board.
MORGAN ALSO WINS OUT.
He Will Continue in the Office of Supervise r
of Assessments, and Will Receive
Legitimate Pay for his Work
Other Matters.
The county board met and organ
ized at the court house in this city
Monday forenoon, by the election of
A. Pearce Tomkins, <>f Eileen, as
chairman. Mr. Tomkins was elect
ed on the second ballot, receiving
ten of the eighteen votes cast. Last
year’s rules for the government of
the board were adopted. The prin
cipal business of the session was to
settle the question as to what
should be done with the office of
supervisor of assessments. The
names 'of George F. • Morgan,
Charles H. Noyes aud Robert Inglis
were proposed. Mr. Morgan had
nine votes on the first ballot, while
Mr. Noyes had seven and Mr. Inglis
iwo. Mr. Noyes lost as the ballot
ing progressed, and it took eight
bafiots to settle the election. On
the eighth ballot Mr. Morgan had
ten votes, while Mr. Noyes and Mr.
Inglis had four votes each. A few
bills for ’abor were acted upon, but
most of them were referred to the
several committees, vet to be ap
pointed. and the creditors of the
county will likely have to wait until
next fall for their pay. The News
of this city was continued as the
paper to publish the board proceed
ings. A resolution introduced by
Supervisor Wacksrnith to distribute
county deposits in the different
banks of the county, was laid on the
table, and the treasurer will con
tinue to use his own .pleasure in the
matter. M.ysh was re*el; eted
janitor for the ersuing year. The
board voted thirty dollars a month
for ? stenographer to be appointed
by the district attorney. Several
resolutions were introduced in re
ference to tax matters, and passed.
Supervisor Hosmer, of the town of
Washburn, brought in a resolution
to make the road between Washburn
and Ashland a county road, and the
matter went to the committee on
roads and bridges. There is a
strong sentiment in favor of this
being done, as the road is too heavy
a burden for the towns of Eileen j
and Washburn to handle alone, and 1
the next meeting may pass the reso
lution. All the members of the
board were present except Mr,
Drummond. The following is the
new board:
Henry Wachsmuth. Bayfield; T.
J. Stevenson, Bell; Martin Hogan,
Cable;F. H. Drummond, Drummond
A. PearceTomkins, Eileen; Charles
S. Hobbs, Iron River; Ben Holm,
Mason; Mike Hopkins. Orienta; An
drew Lauri, Oulu; Eben Olson, Port
Wing;\L. P. Anderson, Pratt; A. H.
Ilosiner, town of Washburn, and H.
P. Axel berg. Fred Terrill, E B.erg
mann, George Mertz, Nels Nelsdn,
George Dibbell, Sr., Fred Loroux,
City of Washburn,
Congregational Church Notes
The local lodge of the I. O. O. F.
and the Daughters of Rebekah will
meet with us next Sunday morning,
attending in a body.
The sermon will fit the occassion
and there will be a goodly supply of
music. Service begins promptly at
10:30.
Sunday School at 12:00.
Christian Endeavor at 6:45.
Evening service at 7:30. Subject
of sermon, “Leanness of Soul.”
The public is invited to all our
services.
Boys and girls remember the
Childrens Church service to night at
7 sharp.
Jaekson to Quit School Work.
R. B. Jackson, of Superior, for
mer superintendent of the Bayfield
and Ashland high schools, and for
several years at the head of the Sup
! erior schools, has announced his in
| tention to retire from school work
and to engage in other work. He in
just finishing six years of success
ful work in Superior.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
TWO ARE SENTENCE!)
County Judge Irish Attends to a
Couple Crimimals.
SEND THEM TO GREEN BAY
Henry Evans and Clarenes White, whan
Played Free with Other People’s
Properly, are aiven Sentences to
Green Bay Reformatory.
Sheriff Conlin rounded up Henry
Evans at Hay ward during the week,
and Clarence White at Jim Falls,
Chippewa county, and brought them
to the county tail in this city.
Evans stole an overcoat belonging to
Dan. Darrah, and some other cloth
ing and left the country. He plead
guilty before County Judge W. H.
Irish on Monday and received a sen
tence of two years in the reforma
tory at Green Bay. White stole a
check of $45 from Mrs. Robinson’s
store at Pratt. He also plead gui ity
and Judge Irish sentenced him one
year iu the Green Bay reformatory.
Both men were taken away Monday
night.
The Chariesworth Company.
Coming Tuesday evening, May 2.
Manager Sweet has booked The.
Charles worth Company for One Re
cital at the Opera, House, Tuesday
vetting, May 2.
This Company is b6yond any ques
tion, a tHrong one and the letters of
endor-ement and press notices exhi
bited by the company’s manager
show that its tour has bben one of
great success. This is a sort of at
traction we like to have come to
Washburn, and Manager Sweet is to
be congratulated on having secured
.it.
Note the following from The Far
go Forum:
"Miss Chariesworth is a singer of
quality. Her voice, a glorious con
tralto, is one of exceptional power
and sweetness, and is so perfectly
blended that it showed equally welt
in all her numbers. Great contral
tos are ran 1 , and thus the addition
to the ranks of musicians of one so
gifted as Miss Chariesworth is a
matte-’ for congratulation and spec
ial mention, In last’s program
were selections requiring a high de
gree of ability and in every one,
especially ‘The Pipes of Pan,’by
Elgar, and a group of French songs,
showed long and careful training. ]ti
M r,Copely,the violinist, the*audience
was quick to recognize the great
artist he unquestionably is. He se
lections were finely rendered and
well received. ”
Sale of reserved seats has already
opened and tne indications are that
the house will be crowded.
, i
Had a Bee.
About twelve to fifteen of our
cit'zens took part in a ü bee” Tues
day and by hard work and the use of
a number of tegms cleared away the
principal part uf the wreck of the
Willey livery stables, which was
ruined by fire recently. The crew
went after the wrecked building
piece by piece, loaded it on wagons,
and it was carted off, so that by
night nearly all the wreckage had
! been disposed of. Mr. Willey made
his settlement with the insurance
compan v Tuesday, aud wilt at once
commence putting up his new barn,
which will be fifty by one hundred
feet in size. EJe says he will have a
better stable than before the fire.
/
Dick Werner Dead.
Richard Werner, formerly a cook in
the hotels-and restaurants c t this,
city and Ashland, died at his home
in Ashland Sunday, from cancer of
the stomach. Mr. Werner has lived
in Ashland most of the time for the -
past thirty years, and was the first
chef at the Chequamegon hotel in
1877. He leaves two grown up
children. The funeral was held
from the Episcopal church Tuesday
afternoon.
A wonderful spring tonic. Drives
out all winter impurities, gives you
strength health and happiness.
That’s what Hollister’s Rocky
Mountain Tea will dr. 35 cents,
Tea or Tablets. Fox Bros.