Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-18
BADGER NOTES.

mail and was safely delivered to the
own er, which bore the queer inscrip-
ton, Gree Trade Charlie. La Crosse,
Wis" Charles Benton is the man who
carries the queer cognomen, and he be-
came the possesser because of his pro-
bounced opinions on the tariff issue.
GEORGE ALBERT, who came to Milwa u
kee in 1886, is dead.
THE Ashland Fat base ball team has
accepted challenge to play the Duluth
Whale Backs, aggregate weight 1854
pounds, not including a 328-pound mas
cot. The game will be played on the
grounds in Ashland on October Is.
THE $4,000 damage suit against Bige-
low Bros, of Washburn, will go to the
supreme court. Du Boy proposes to
collect the full amount before he ceases
litigation.
A PIPE foundry will be established at
at Bessemer, Ala, by Gen. F. II. West,
Geo. L. Graves and r. M. st. Clair, of
Milwaukee, and others, and A. J. DreX
Ell and A. +. Bridge, Of Whitewater.
THE Beef Slough Company has now
virtually abandoned it's old works, hav-
ing moved its booms, Offices, ETC., to
West Newton, Mimi, eight miles below
Alma, where permanent buildings are
being erected.
ARTICLES of association have been
filed with the secretary of state by the
Ashland County Land Company, of Mil
waukee; capital stock, 100000; incor-
porators, James L. Gates, Frank G..
Bigelow and John F. Harper.
CHAs. KURTENAcHER, of La Crosse,
Give A. Hardy, of Whitehall, and L. L.
Chapman, of Irving, have been admit
ted to practice before the Interior De-
partment at Washington.
JUDGE SIEBECKER added another de-
cision to the Ford will case list at Mad
ison on the 18th. By it the order Of the
Dane County court dated February l.,
ance, is reversed, and the order of al
lowance is modified so that Mar
Gus Ford shall receive $500 per
annum, to date from August
10, 1889, the allowance to be
paid into the hands of Mrs. Ford, as
guardian OF the young man; and in the
event that the executor receive no per-
sonal property before the final settle
ment of the estate, which may be avail
able for such purpose, the $500 per an
mum paid to Marcus shall be considered
as an advancement to the share of the
young man in his fathers estate.
AGENT KELSEY recently paid out $780,
900 to the Menomonee Indians, being
one-half of last seasons pay for logging,
and will make second payment
shortly.
The Madison Democrat will shortly
occupy it's new $l7 900 building.
ASHLAND County officers raided a
t:dive" at Iron Belt run by 'Billv" Ad-
ans, who was held in $500 bail, and
three women at $3.50.
MANY applications for pine contracts
with La POinte Indians are being made
to the department by Northern Wiscon-
sin loggers.
MAPS are being prepared of the prop
erty skirting the shores of Lake Monona
for the use Of the motor line company.
Maps will also be arranged showing the
ground partially around Lake Mendoza.
The company will then begin negotia-
ting for right-of-way.
THERE is now no question whatever
but that the Fisk, one of Florence Coun-
tvs most promising, new, iron proper
ties, is a mine. The shaft is down
eighty feet, the last fifteen feet of which
is an excellent quality of thoroughly
clean, shipping, soft, red hematite ore.
The damage case in the circuit court
at Bayfield, against A. A. Bigelow d Co.
for $4,000 damage was nonsuited, and
company offered him 81 900 and an arti-
fetal limb, and position with them as
long as he wanted to stay, to settle the
case.
STEPNIAK, the Russian author, will de-
liver a lecture in the Milwaukee Ply
mouth course.
REAL estate sales in Milwaukee Coun-
ty last week aggregated $780, 900.
PURCHASING AGENT RE1GHLEY, of the
Lake Shore road, has resigned.
THE Labor party convention at Mil
waukee nominated Robert Schilling for
congressman and full county ticket.
MILWAUKEE expects to have crack
football eleven.
GEORGE FORSTER, president of the
Forster Lumber Company, died at Mil
waukee on the 18th.
ALL the Wisconsin Central Offices will
be removed to Chicago.
The annual report of Commissioner
Croft, of the general land office, shows
that S. SS acres of Uncle Sans land in
Wisconsin was pre-empted by settlers
in the past year. For this he received
1914, 01O.
A BRANCH of the Wisconsin Humane
Society has been organized at Eau
Claire. j. G. Cores is president, and
Arthur A. Meggett secretary and treas
urer.
The Rev. Virgins, of FootviIle, the
veteran Methodist clergyman, is in his
Goth year. He joined the church in
1915.
W. P. ALEXANDER, who was recently
81 ,orociIn,,t Of Tho Cont hJ.nc or
Railway Association, was baggage
smasher at Milton Junction twenty
years ago.
INurN Dnn1nt,, Sheriff Cannon Of Ash