Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-27
Cassville Notes - BulIdozing a
Good Citlzen--1mportant
River Improvement.
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FRIEND Pollock On last night we had
10 sassrille reenac.ment of the scenes we
used TO witness in 1851. Il was between
the hours of two or three in The morning
when party ofmen crazed by drink entered
the store of Otto Reiake by breaking the
Cellar door. They bad as Il looks, put
powder 10 the locks oil the front ana side
door and attempted TO blow them open, in
which they seemed TO have failed. When in
the store they put enough powder into the
lock of the safe 10 tear off The door of the
safe, driving it up as high as the ceiling,
knocking off the plasteFing and otherwise
making its mark on lis passage up and down.
From the coneussion, the back and one
front window We're blown out A 10. Of
glass and china ware was Knocked off the
shelves and broken, besides the safe was
completely demolished. The damage done.
exclusive of the safe is about $50. When
Mr.. X. came TO the store early in the morn
ing he found things in the condition as above
stated. A space OF about two feet square
in the floor was burned through il places and
still burning. All his papers in the safe
burned up among them was bundle of pa
pers belonging TO the estate Of o. b. Nc.
Cartney. However. the papers burned of
his own W old notes and were almost val
ueiess, as were also the Mccartney ma
psrs, and all can be duplicated. The more
valuable papers were safe in Mr.. r y house,
except his insurance policy, it went with the
rest. Mr.. Reinke thinks thai the thing was
spite work as nothing in the store was taken,
excepting, perhaps, some plug and fine cut
tobacco, and his pen knives, but had he not
been in time we might have experienced
conilasration. AS strong wind was bo9-
ing, the whole lower end Of town might have
been burned. II was Indeed narrow es.
cape. Mr.. Reinke asks, and very properly
too, why will not the people form vigil
ance committee and politely iayite suspected
parties TO leave the town as was the case
eighteen or twenty years ago. Where are
the leaders Of that movement now +? The
men of means who gave moral and material
support to such mode? Where are Raui-
fauf, La Grave, w. p Dewey, and E. Brink
mann OF that day? This is the second time
that Mr. r has been bulldozed in this way.
The sudden cold spell with heavy ice
caused the suspension Of the work carried
on here by the government. in improving the
river. The work accomplished was com.
menced about the 18th of October and from
that time to the 22nd of November dam
800 feet in length aud some 45 feet in width
was built to height of feet above the low
est stage of water across the slough between
island No.i92, commonly called the Richards
island and the Wise opsin shore, each end
rests on solid embankment Of 50 feet up
and 100 feet down stream, brush and stone
rip-rappng. The northern end or head of
island 1872 is protected around the point $50
feet down stream en- the slough where the
dam is located and 100 feet on the western
side at the head of this island which was
fast washing away. Since the dam is turning
SO powerful body of water into the steam
boat channel it was necessary TO carry the
brush and stone far out ahead into the stream
The layers were put in in the shape of ter
race along the whole point making that part
perfectly strong and safe. The last work
completed was the protec ton of ;he western
bank of the steam boat channel where the
increased volume of water was cutting off
the bank rapidly. The sudIe ak in the
weather prevented the rip-rapping of the
lower part of this channel which will prob.
ably be done this winter when the ice is
solid TO haul on, or next spring. There will
hereafter be no more trouble at the foot of
Cassville, Cor ~ mile sough). The lower
the water, the more powerfully the current
will act on the bar and wash it out and keep
it so. This work has been done under the
superintendent of Mr.. E. w. Sheibner, in.
spector OF U. 5. Engineer corps, lately a cap.
tain in the regular army. The total amount
of material used is as follows: 476025 cubic
yards of rock 1905 30 cubic yards Of brush.
1925 poles or S666.75 cubic yards of nateri.
al, at total cost Of about $i0,0OO, being
about S. l5l per cubic yard, (above figures
we appropriated from the Inspectors noies).
This work has been wholly done by the O,
S. The first done, as we understand, in this
way i, and is great success, particularly fl
nancially as the cheapest work done so far
| by contract has cost nearly double the above
figures. Besides all this large amnunt of
money has been expended in our town in
every way benefiting almost every one in
the village and we ought 10 be truly thankful
for tins windfall and only ask repetition
The river is now and has been for several
days covered with foa ing ice. and IN a good
stage of water probably feet above extreme
low water. Except for that, the ice would
before his have gorged and begun closing
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