The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-24
WISCONSIN BRTEFLETS.
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI-
Gus SOURCES.


and Deaths Accidents and Crimes-Per-
sonal Pointers
How Madison came to be the State
capital is thus told by Gen. Simeon
Mills, of that city:
This is one OF the towns that were laid
out in advance. Before any archltrave had
been hewn thither came Il white man
with a scheme. His name IS DOty.
He was one OF tie Territorial judges. He
was what now would be called a boomer
He and Gov. Mason of Michigan owned
more than a thousand acres OF this land.
History doesn't mention how they got it.
History is often silent. These two men
plated Madison.
They meant when they did it that it
should be the capital OF the Territory, and
of TIE State when the time came. mat
was in November, 1886.
The Territorial Legislature was in ses-
sion over at Belmont. 1t requires micro
scope and several old settlers to find
Belmont now. Judge Doty paid the leSis-
lature a visit. Before the Legislature
ad journed, so potent were his arguments,
it was decided that Madison was to- be the
capital OF Wisconsin. 1t was the capital
before pieca OF sod had been turned or a
nail driven. In May, 1887, the first house
was built by Evan Peck whose wife and
son still live here. Fl. G. Dodge was Terri
torial Governor--the first one.
June TO- 1887, Col. Bird came here from
Milwaukee with q gang OF men to COM
mence work on the State House. OF that
gang OF men all are dead but one--Darwin
Clark.
Milwaukee was putting on airs in those
days, said Gen. Mills. 1t was quite a town.
While the State House was building the
Legislatures met temporarily in Burlington.
At the first session Of the Legislature In
Madison Milwaukee swooped down upon it
with lobby and made its first attempt to
get the State capital removed there. 1t
was bitter contest. Milwaukee came
within one vote in tho House of accom-
plishing what it wanted. and Milwaukee
has been trying the same game for thirty
years.
And Gen. Simeon Mills, so years of
age, with few wrinkles in his face and
hie eyebrows black, laughed as he told
this story, and climbed an iron stairway
frora the round floor of the Capitol to
the top, and didn't puff half SO loudly as
the man who accompanied him and who
isn't half as old.
Gov. Hoard has devised a novel
scheme for the exhibition of live stock in
connection with the Worlds Fair. The
end sought to be attained is economy of
space, and this, the Governor thinks,
plan be adopted. Gov. Hoard, Supt. HI.
G. Adams, Dairy and Food Commits sioner
Thorn, Robert Ogilvie, and some others
interested in stock raising, went to Chi
cago last week and submitted the plan to
the Worlds Fair committee. The COM
mittee of the various live stock associa-
tions of the country estimated that
the exhibit would require the use of
from $50 to 500 acres of ground.
By the plan proposed by Gov
Hoard the whole exhibit counted on in
this estimate could be accomm odated on
seventy-five acres. Taking the horse ex-
hibit as an exampl', the plan is some
thing like this: The stalls are arranged
in the form OF circles, or rather ellipses,
lying one within the other. each ellipse
being separated from the next smaller by
an alley, the whole ground plan being
like gigantic circus tent. Each ellipse
would be devoted to the exhibition of a
particular breed, so that the visitor
might by completing the outer circle see
the entire display of that certain breed,
and then. by going to the one next in
closed, inspect that, and SO one, until
all had been visited in turn. The plan
drafted by the Governor provides for
stalls to cover twelve acres, which will
accommodate 2, $40 horses and twice that
number of cattle. The transverse alleys
separating the ellipses of stalls are
twenty feet wide. There are also radiat-
ing alleys twenty feet in width running
out from the center, and the sections
formed by them as boundaries will mark
the exhibit from each State or country of
the world. In the center of the ground
plan space of elliptical form, 300 feet
by 100 feet, is left for an exhibiting area,
on one side of which would be an amphi-
theater accommodating 5000 people.
The highest estimates made by enthusi-
asts as to the amount of horse exhibit is
5000 head so that twenty-five acres
would more than suffice for this depart
meat. Then, with the addition of SINH
lar arrangements for the cattle and for
sheep. swine, and poultry, the whole ex-
hibit could be accommodated on seventy
five acres.
The following Wisconsin pensions
have been granted:
Original Invalid-Silas J.. Bibbins. Beloit;
Stephen S. Williams, Eau Claire; John Plumer,
Potosi navy David J. Owens, Neenah Charles
Werbke, Manitowoc; Frank Wolf Menasha;
Patrick Blake, Aliens Grove; David A. Moore,
Glendale; Henry Harris, Hersey; Philip Metz,
Kewaskum; Samuel Powers, Boscobel; Harlin
Van Etten, Augusta; Gopher G. Rich, Omro
Elan ]. Raymond, Chippewa Falls; Luther
Bates, Washburn Albert c. Fuller tdeceased),
Pepin; Sylvester Rose Chippewa Falls;
George Session, Mao Mamie; vitus Werner, st.
Wendell; Hastings McGill, McDill; Joseph
Gremcr Prairie du CHEN; Eugene WILDER,
Merrill; Arnold Rush, Jordan.
Increase-A1vin w. Jenkins MerIillon; Pat
rick Judge, Baraboo James Green, Beoit Dana
E. Dean, Merrill; Silas A. Payne. Centralia;
John Johnston, Waukesha; Orange Harrison,
Oxford; Jacob Stager Fremont; John j. Bar
ringer, Fish Creek Covill Jones, Hamlin Jere-
miah Matthias, Nashville Charles Fisk, Wone-
Voc; August Liebertrs n Cross Plains; David
Lewis, Fall River Samuel Mcqueen. Kendall;
Solomon Walker, Shopiere james Egan, Lyn-
don Station Edmund Weimar, Appleton David
B. Sherman, Mt Tabor; Edward Mahoney,