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VOLUME X. tOCfll NEWS AND COMMENT The county board meets on the 20th inst. John Wiercinski is in Eagle River, on business. Hon. E. A. Hayes accompanied with Mrs. Hayes, arrived in Hurley Friday -noon. Mr. Hayes’ time will be )rl ■ : tjf up while here in developing the ''Poland Mine, while the friends of Mrs Hayes will enjoy her visit here. Mr. V. E. DePodesta is confined to bis bed with an attack of La Grippe. John Restaurant f Saxon was a Hur Jey caller Tuesday. Arthur Auger of Saxon was a busi ness caller in town Thursday. •Judge P. H. Aspinwali was on the sick list last week, suffering with rheu jnatism. Frank Marta and Victor DePodesta made a business trip to Cumberland, they returned Wednesday morning. Dr. Pinch, chairman of the town board of the town of Flambeau was a Hurley caller btonday. Dr. Stebbins returned Friday morn ing after spending a few weeks in New York visiting relatives. J Dr. Trezona and Mr. Arthur Lastico of Milwaukee spent Sunday with John Wiercinski at his farm house near Gur ney. Mrs. Angelo Pedri who was taken to Ashland Monday morning- underwent an operation. Her condition is reported favorable. We hope to hear of her com plete recovery. On account of the snow storm Friday the morning passenger train of the Chi cago and Northwestern which should arrive here at 6:30 A. M. did not get here until 3:15 P. M. The weather during the first part of this week was such that it made us be lieve that spring was here, but on Fri day we thought differently. Henry Meade and Daniel Reid have each invested in a Reo Automobile to be delivered May 2nd. Frank Marta is on the fence about buying a car this year but says if he does buy he wants a Reo. Oscar Noreen formerly employed at the Miner office, is now in the job printing business tor himself and is lo cated in the shop formerly occupied by- Louis Nida. We wish Oscar success in his new enterprise. We are informed that Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Mathews of Crosby Minn., for merly of Iron Belt, announce the en gagement of their daughter, Myrtle May, to Rev. C. M. Ruland, of the Presbyterian church at that place. • Our County Treasurer Frank J. Trier has been confined to bed - the past two 1 weeks from the effects of a bad cold. The latest reports are that he is im proving and we hope to see him back tin the harness before long. Chairman Bonino is now at the Sis ters’ Hospital at Ashland where he un drewent an operation for rupture. The operation was successful though it leaves Mr. Bonino in a weak condition. We hope to see him back in the next few days. Walter Bugjoe of the Germania Lnca Hon was seriously injured at the Wind- . sor Mine last Sunday. While working in the shaft he slipped and felt about •vi! feet injuring his head very badly. Re was removed to the Ironwood Hos l,:tal and the latest report is that he is getting along nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Gutekunst werw called to Merrill, Wis.. Tuesday room ing by the serious illness of their daughter Mrs. M. J. Krusbaek. Mr. Gutekunst returned home Thursday evening while Mrs. Guteksunt will re main with her daughter. Mr. Gutekunst informs us that her condition is not much better. Come to our shop for hirst Class Printing Notice. Wm. Landraint income Tax Assessor will be in Hurley on March the 27th for the last time to assist the tax payers |in filling out their income report blanks, and states that all the blanks i must be returned to him on or before : the first of April, should any one fail to ! send report by that time he will turn the names of offenders to the District Attorney for prosecution. The following is a letter received by i Mr. Menefee, of Eagle River from Mr. A. D. Campbell of the Wisconisn ; Advancement Association giving Mr. Campbell’s ideas on reforestration. I am as strongly in favor of forestry as is possible for a person to be, but I want to see this carried forward in a rational and profitable manner. It is proposed that the state forestry shall contain 1,289,000 acres and that this acreage shall be speedily obtained. lam wondering when the state will have es tablished he so called scientific forestry on such an acreage or even a material fraction thereof. It seems to me that 250,000 acres would furnish an im mense task to the forestry department and I believe that the effort to create a solid tract of mi lion or more acres is extremely unwise. There are many portions of the state in which small tracts prevail that are utterly unsuited for agricultural purposes and which could be utilized to good advantage for timber growing and with the further advantage of reducing the erosion i which prevails there to a much greater extent than is possible to prevail in your portion of the state. During re cent years w r e have had a mania for forestry that has contained but a mini mum of practical sense. For instance, when I was addressing the state agri cultural society some five or six years ago on the agricultural possibilities of ; upper Wisconsin, a quite noted gentle man from Ohio asked me if it would j not be better to let this upper country grow timber because as he said, "we need fence posts in Ohio” I asked him if they could not grow fence posts on their hills in Ohio for less than the freight from upper Wisconsin and he said “I never thought of that” I ask ed him further if the reforestration of the denuded hills of a considerable por tion of Ohio would not be largely re paid in the lessened expense of dredg ing the rivers into which the eroded soil is washed and thus save the United States a large amount and again he said, “I never thot of that.” i mention the above simply to indi cate that there has been more enthusi asm than practical judgment in much of the “hurrah” regarding forestra tion with which we have been feasted in recent years. When we get rid of this mania, we will get down to logi cal and progressive forestration to the vast benefit of future generations. I don’t know that I have answered your question, but I have at least re lieved myself of some pent up feeling regarding the necessity of reforestra tion and the great necessity of getting rid of the fads that prevail in the mat ter. With kindly wishes, I beg to remain, yours very truly, A. D. Campbell, Mgr. The Wisconisn Advancement Association. Whether the forest reserve is good or not, is a serious question; but certain ly when, as in the case of Vilas county it proposes to take nearly half a mrlion acres and retire it from settlement, you cannot blame the citizens of the county for protesting vigorously. This project is like most of the progressive schemes. The sacrifice to the people of the reserve counties is certain and im- ' mediate; the benefits to be derived for the forest reserve are remote and con tingent— Wausau Record Herald. State Forester Griffith, or those be hind him in the forestration project, have been misleading the taxpayers of the state as to *he cost per annum of the one-tenth of a mill levy which they are endeavoring to pass in the legisla ture for the upkeep of the forest re serve. While to the uninitiated the one-tenth of a mill levy does not ap pear to increase each county’s tax, still the following figures show the annual tax on present valuations. When the contracts already made are considered the figures given below should be increased one-third: Adams * 769.35 Ashland.. 1796.95 Barron 2310 14 Bayfield 1625.95 Brown 5630.65 Buffalo 1892.46 Burnett *,’l2. li Calumet .. 2612.29 Chippewa 2998.54 Clark 2981.11 Columbia 4677..% Crawford 1460,22 Dane 23660.07 LA NOSTRA TERRA WHICH MEANS OUR LAND Dodge 8085.48 ! Door 1704.89 Douglas 5218.81 Dunn 2381.08 Eau Claire 2904.88 Florence 425.30 Fond du Lac. 7031.44 Forest 1247.86 Grant 5485.74 Green 4575.42 Green Lake 2232.81 lowa 3925.55 Iron 762.51 Jackson 1660.00 Jefferson 5518.14 Juneau 1770.46 Kenosha 4616.77 Kewaunee 2036.67 LaCrosse 4096.90 LaFayete 4091.82 Langlade 1938.51 Lincoln 1878.49 Manitowoc 5636.49 Marathon 5041.44 Marinette 2761.50 Marquette...' 1174.96 Milwaukee 5,4860.41 Monroe 2843.31 Oconto 2174.74 Oneida 1391.36 Outagaime 5710.18 Ozaukee .. 2318.12 Pepin 692.28 Pierce 2198.22 Polk 2154.79 Portage 2335.67 Price 1252.45 Racine 7811.45 Richland 2343.67 Rock 8222.51 Rusk 1163.77 St. Croix 2846.56 Sauk 4438.31 Sawyer 1021.47 Shawano 2800.91 Sheboygan 6316.00 Taylor 1345.43 Tremplealeau 2462.10 Vernon 2910.62 Vilas 872.53 Walworth 5640.38 Washburn 728.59 Washington 3564.12 Waukesha 53 ;9.27 Waupaca 3235.30, Waushara 1871.80 Winnebago 6993.04 Wood 2955.48 Boy Killed By Street Car A sad accident happened near the end of the street car track in the town of Carey, last Wednesday about 8 A.M. Earl Bresadola a boy 13 years old, son j of Aurelio and Oliva Bresadola whlie attempting to board the street car, when in motion was dragged under the fender of the car and almost instantly killed. Just how this happened we are unable to learn as no one saw the hoy fall. The boy when first noticed after the accident was still alive and was I carried to the office of Dr. H a mbley but died before the doctor's office was reached. The car was in charge of Andrew An derson, a competent motorman and to whom no blame can be attached. Earl attended school at the Carey school house and was on his way to school when the accident happened. While the habit that boys have of jumping on the cars while in motion is a dangerous one and one that parents and the authori ties should endeavor to stop still this; could be very easily avoided if the street car railway company could have i seen their way clear to put on a con-1 ductor along with a motor man on each car not only to protect the public but also themselves. We have travelled in ! the street car many times when it has been impossible onaccount of the traf- j fic for one man to collect fares and at tend to the running of the car in a pro-; per manner In the case of Earl the car which killed him was crowded with children coming to Hurley to school and it was only natural that he should try and ride with them. Notice Of Judicial And School Superintendent Elec tion. State of Wisconsin County of Iron SS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that at an election, to be held in the sever al towns and election precincts on the first Tuesday of April. A. D. 1913, be ing the first day of said month, the fol lowing officers are to be elected. A JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT to succeed Robert C-. Siebeck er, whose term of office expires the first Monday of January 1914. A COUNTY JUDGE to succeed Peter H. Aspinwali whose term of offices ex pires on the first Monday of January, 1914. A STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS to succeed C. P. Cary, whose term of office expires the first Monday of July 1913. A COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS to suuxeed Chariea D. Lennon, whose term of office expires the first Monday of July, 1915. Given under my hand anti seal of the Count,i Clerk at tne Court House it. the Village o( Hurley, this Bth day of March, 1913. W. D. Tyler, County Clerk. 11-12 Advertize In OUR LAND HURLEY, WISCON3IN, SATURDAY MARCH IS 1913. MADISON NEWS Breweries Likely To Clash With Progressives Madison Wis March, 12 Special- Evi dence of a tendency to regulate liquor traffic in Wisconsin is found in the large number c f excise measure now before the legislature. Approximate ly fifty bills have been put in and it is a noticible fact that in almost every in stance the proposed measure tends to regulate and curb the freedom of the liquor interests. Unless straws have quit indicating which way the. This is best indicated Iby the vote on Merlin Hull’s measure to create a “dry zone” of one mile a round all dry territory. The speaker of the assembly left the chair to engage in a vigorous plea for the passage of the measure and on the final vote forty six were for the measure while fifty were opposed. The “wets” have by no means a cinch on the senate that body, during the last week, ordering engrossed Sen ator Taesdale’s bill prohibiting treat ing. This is the middle step in the route to passage. The excise bills deals with all the different phase of the subject from free lunch to county option. There are several reasons for the in terest in the liquor question this year and the alleged activity of the brewers in the last campaign, against the in come tax, against women’s suffrage and against various progressive candi dates whose attitude on liquor ques tions is not pleasing to the brewers, is said to be by no means the least. Among the supporters of some of the excise measures now pending are many who strongly denounce the liquor interests participation in questions of a purely political nature, and their ef fort to control the state adiminstration and the legislature. It is evident that if the brewers continue their political activity against progressive measures and progressive candidates and fail to see. as did the railroads and some other politically active "special interests" j in Wisconsin the handwriting on the wall, they will force a lash in this state between the progressives and the brewers, the outcome of which know one can doubt. For these reasons the assembly bill making it unlawful for the manufactur ers of spirituous 'iquors to own or con trol saloons is the center of much inter est. The measure - commonly known as the “divorce ” law— was originat ed by Milwukee {retail saloon keepers and would do much, it is said, towards curtailing the political influence of the breweries It is pointed out that a se peration of the retailers from the brew ers would take away an immense pow er heretofore wielded with little discri mination by the lacter. That the breweries realize the impor tance of much of the pending legisla tion is indicated by the strong lobby they are maintaining at Madison. by the venerable lobbist "Billy” Aus tin, a group of high 'salaried counsel leave no atone un-turned in the path of anything that scents of limitations of reduction of brewery power. At the recent hearing on the divorce bill, which was attended by the retail saloonmen all ore the state, the argu ments of the two faction reached white heat and the “dirty linen” in the busi ness was thoroughly and publicly aired. Brewery men W’ent so far as to refer to the saloon keepers as “bums”, while the latter pictured the modern day saloon controling brewer as a slave driver and laid at his door much of the blame for the evils alleged to result from the sale of intoxicating beverage. The bill of Senator Teasdale provid ing for SIOO license in towns of from 100 to 500 population arid SSOO in all other towns is one of the measures against which the breweries are center ing their attacks. With a large majori ty of the saloons said to be controlled by the breweries and increased license means a sum of money of no mean con siderattion, it is claimed. The Sparta senator is the author of many excise measures among them be ing a county option bili which provides that the county clerk call a special election any time :• petition, bearing signatures of twenty per cent of the voters, is presented to him demanding that an election be heid to determine th , icens-t question. Senator Teasdale would also prevent the issuance of li censes to women Assemblyman Fre derick is the author of the anti-free lunch measure. A bill which; ii passed, would give the breweries ample means of defeat ing the intention of a “dry ! ote' i“ that of assemblyman Bedding which allows breweries to establish agencies in dry territory and sell direct to the consumer. Ti e proposed law which is also again*' the intention of the Webb i bill, recently passed by congress— simply amends that sections of statu tes making it unlawful for retailers to ‘ in dry terrhory and confers the coveted privelege upon the manufac turers. Another bill, calculated to bring lit tle cheer to the brewer, is that of As semblyman Gannon and Senator Ackley providing that licenses be limited to one for every 500 of population instead of one to every 250 of population as heretofore. A move for public ownership of sa loons is started by a joint resolution, introduced by Assemblyman Smith call ing for a legislative investigation of the advisibility of this system. If a bill introduced by Senator A. E. Martin becomes a law, it will be neces sary for farmers to display a light from their vehicles, unless the load is composed of [straw or other articles that would make it impracticable, while on the highways at night time. The bill also changes the tail lights on autos from red to white. Narrow Escape Of Two Children From Burning At Iron Belt A fire in which two small children narrowly escaped from death occurred at the residence of Mario Calligaro at Iron Belt, last Saturday about Ba. m. Mrs. Calligaro had stepped out of her house to do a little shopping leaving her two children, one about 2 and one half years old and the other about one year old, sole occupants of the house. On her return after an absence of a few minutes she found her house on fire. She immediately gave the alarm. A Chicago salesman, whose name we were unable to obtain, who happened to be passing the builidng at the time the alarm was given, accompanied by Silvio DePietro and Frank De Meio rushed into the burning building and with great difficulty succeeded in res cuing the children. The family lost all of their belongings, and carried no in surance. High School Notes On account of the illness of Miss Kuth, the German classes did not meet on Tuesday of this week. Hypatia, the girls’ literary club, met on Wednesday evening of this week. Each member answered to the roll call quoting a proverb. The follow ing program was given: Heading Miss Everett Piano solo Miss Kuth Heading Katharin Sybeldon Vocal solo Lorain O’Brien. The girls’ basket Pall team was defeated by the ironwood team last Saturday evening. The teams were well matched and the game was exciting. The two teams intend to meet again in the near future when our girls intend to turn the score. The German club met after school. The members of the first year class intertained. The following program was given: German song .. By the club German reading Josephine Noldin. Vocal duet . Gladys Ruggles Sarah Colossi mo. German reading Miss Kuth Violin solo Eva Johnson Minnie Tobin Heading Phillip Fabian j German song By the club. J Ester Anderson, our bright Senior. ! appeared iri school Tuesday afternoon after an abence of about a week. Saint Patrick’s Day Following is the cast of characters of 1 "An Irish Eden." the three act drama to I be presented at St Mary's hall Monday j evening. March 17th Father Duffy, the parish priest John Becker J Father O’Brien, his assistant . John Newman ' Nellie Duffy, his niece Hyacinth Meade Dr. Nolan, his life long friend. Lyle Slender Mrs. Murphy, hi-- housekeeper Mary Murphy i Mrs. Patrick, his cousin .Florence Kelly Mike Patrick, his cousin-in-law Lennon O’Brien John Nolan, a young lawyer Jas. Fbr.drini Anna Ryan, in love with Tom Gertie Newett Tom Blake, in love with Anna ... Gustave Slender Mary Demsey, a false friend Harrison Woodworth, a soldier of fort une ... Jos. Planagan Louis Schmidt. foe butcher. Dan McCauley Aunt Susan, Nellie's old nurse .. Magnetta Q nn The Patrick Children, six in number, aged from 6 to 14 years. Time of performance, 2 hours. Tune —the presem Locality—A '■mall village on the Hudson vimetimes called the "Garden of Eden." Act i-Extc- .r of F, Duffy's home. Act ll—Same, tw years later. Act Hl—Same on ’ month ater e FEW FACTS ABOUT HURLEY HLRLEY is the County Seat of Iron County; i WO LINKS OF RAILROADS run into Htyley: the Chicago & North Western, and the Minneapolis, St. Paul St. Marie; HLRLKV S principal ind;|hries are, Mining, Lumber ing and Farming; OVER $1 0 0,000.00 is paid out in HURLEY each and every month in the tear by its mining companies alone for material and labor; HI RLFA has a Catholic a Presbyterian a Methodist aud a Lutheran Church al>o a Jewish Svnagogue. 11l RLh\ has the oldest strongest and most conservati ve bank on the range. HURLFA has the largest dry goods store which carries the most complete and up-to-date stock on the range. IH RLEY Merchants are all old residents and their re putation for honesty and square dealing is second to none in the state. HI RLK\ has an up-to-date sewerage system.' A street railway connects Hurley with Care', Gile Iron wood and other towns in the range. HURLEY is well lighted, a large arc lamp being placed on the corner of each ldock in the city. HI RLE\ lias a graded high school in which none but the higest aud best teachers are employed. The Municipal Court of Iron County is held at Hurley. Bift Reduction On Men’s Youths’ aud Boys’ OVERCOATS. From now on, until January 1, 1913, we will sell all our overcoats at a reduction of 40 per cent. Considering the high grade quality of our clothing and the former low prices, you can readily see the big saving. Come in, and let us show you. Respectfully yours, R. Paul F. E. Atwood WATCH MAKER ENGRAVER All repair work guaranteed satisfactory or money REFUNDED pi and novelties in gold silver, bra-,-., glass, china and pottery. Here you will find a most magnificent display of the very latest designs, superbly executed by skilled artisans in precious and semi-precious metals, etc. Prices are ver\ moderate and an inspection is invited. P. h. ASPINWALL Merc ha n t Tai 1o r I ■-■-===l n [-^====3 Cleaning,P ressing, Repairing Montreal House S. Silver Street Phone 370 - W. HURLEY, - - - WISCONSIN NUMBER 11 I announce the completion of my stock of fall Gold Jewelry Silverware Cut Glass Precious Stones Watches