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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
ROMANCE AND REALITY.
Wonderful Matrimonial Record of a Tav.
ern Keepers Daughter.
Pittsburg Dispatch

Ten years ago the little tavern at Emer-
sons Mills, in the Pine run lumber region,
was kept by noted character Elias Ben
ton.
He had pretty daughter named Betty.
Her mother was dead and she looked
after the household affairs of the tavern.
She was Is years old, and Edward Shott,
bark contractor, young and wel-todo,
was In love with her and wanted to mar
ry her. Betty wanted to marry young
Edward Shot, but her father had other
plans to carry out, and she was compelled
to obey them.
He chose for her husband man three
times her age; who owned large pine
tract in the neighborhood, a valuable
property, that Landlord Benton vas an
xlous to possess.
He compelled his sixteen-year-oId
daughter to marry this man, Aulds, by
name. He only lived six months, and left
his young widow the pine land, which her
father sold and appropriated the proceeds
to his own use. Young Shot had in the
meantime closed all his contracts and gone
away.
One year after the death of her husband
young Mrs. Aulds married, to suit her
father, John Grover, a sawyer. He was
killed in his employers mill one month
later.
The landlord 5 daughter was now twice
a widow, although she was not yet eigh
teen years old.
death Edward Shott returned to Emer-
sons Mills, and on her eighteenth birth
day young Widow Grover, who had
Il hon IF hon f,fb ,a1 bar
old-time love. The couple lived happily
for year and one child was born. The
child was two weeks old when the father
was crushed to death by falling tree in
the woods.
! Widowed now for the third time, the
landlord daughter mourned her third hus-
band sincerely for two years. Then her
| father died. At the age of twentv-one she
made what was regarded as a most fortu-
nate marriage, her fourth husband being
Elmer James, young Warren county law
yer. James tnrned to drink, and she had
no difficulty In obtaining divorce, which
was granted four months after she became
Mrs. James.
| She remained a widow until she was
twenty-three when she married George
Rhone, widower of fifty. He was a
prominent man in the locality. Before
they were married year Rhone died with
smallpox. His young wife nursed him all
through the course of the dreadful disease,
escaping without taking it herself Rhone
left his widow $4,000 In cash. She was
| then not twenty -four years old Not long
after her last husbands death she took
her child and went TO Ohio, where she had
relatives living. This was one year ago
List Tuesday she wrote to friend in this
city that she was to be married the next
day in Covington, Ky, to ID young man
named Charles Green, a Blue Grass
| farmer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08

study them, that it was Pere Marquette
who first saw them in 1873 and called
them Wa-saw-sees and they are really
band of the great Dakotas and were
driven oy their enemies down to the Ar
kansas, where we have always known
them to be. The origin of their race as
told to me by Little Beaver" is as fol-
lows, which write from memory and of
Course have had to embellish little, with
out detracting from the alleged facts of
the legend, because it was difficult mat
ter to always catch the Indian idea.
when the sun was a small star In the
sky, and there was as yet no man on the
earth, because there was not enough light
for him to see, a snail lived on the banks
of the Missouri for thousands of years;
there came an awful flood and the snail
was washed into the stream. Far, far
down the river the waters carried him, and
at last he was tossed out on the sandy
home hundreds of miles from his original
shore. There, after drying himself, he
began to realize mis- lonelines and was
attacked with a genuine feeling of home
sickness, and in bis great sorrow he beg
ged the Great Spirit to remember how
innocent he had been and TO send
him back to his old home. The Great
Spirit listened to his appeal, but instead
of returning him to his home as he had
asked, he was metamorphosed into Wa
ba-sha warrior. The Great SpiriG then
gave him bow and some arrows, caught
him their use and sent him on his way.
In short time he came to a creek, where
the braves lived, and the king of those
animals, in a naughty, regal style, asked
him his business there The warrior re-
piled that he had heretofore been snail
and had always been friendly to al the
beaver tribe. The king of the beavers
was inclined to think that he was lying to
MIN, and was just about to tell him to
leave his dominion when the daughter of
the beaver, the most beautiful of all the
beaver tribe, interceded for the Indian and
he was permitted to remain. Then the
Indian, captivated by the kings daughter,
implored the Great Spirit to change her
form and let her be his constant compan.
ion. To this proposition the Great Spirit
consented and she was transformed into
beautiful squaw. She was married to the
young Wa-ba-sha and from that marriage
came the mighty nation of the Wa-ba-
shas.
The name ''Osage" has very different
reputed origin, and do not vouch for the
truth of it. In the early days of the
French voyageurs an old trapper who had
seen and lived with the Wa-ba- sha and had
a dear and insepara BILE friend of one of the
men, so much so that they were like
brothers, when he returned to Canada, al
ways called his Indian friend "Oh! Sage"
the wise man." and when the French
met the nation they called them
''Osa pes"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
MRS. KEMPsTER IN TROUBLE.
she Is Arrested by Her Daughters Old
Lover.

Lover.
OSHKOSH, Wis, Jan. News reaches
here of the arrest at Minneapolis of Mrs
NJ. P. Kempster, the divorced wife of the
ex-superintendent of the northern hospital
for insane, near this city. The present
trouble forms another chapter in TO-
nance famlllor to many people of this
state and especially residents of eastern
Wisconsin, where Dr. and Mrs Kempster
has many personal friends. Long after
their separation and after the death of
Miss Sadie Kempster, the oldest daughter.
Mrs. Kempster and Miss Agnes, her
youngest daughter, went to Minneapolis,
where she became the proprietor of
a large dressmaking establishment.
Eventually, however her business
dritted into the millinery line. In the
meantime her charming young daughter.
Miss Agnes, became engaged to Fred
Folsom, young man, who finally became
SO acceptable to his bride-elect and his
prospective mother-in-law that he took up
his residence with them, and, it is claim
ed, also advanced Mrs. Kempster money
with which to run the store. A few
nights since, Mrs. kempster and Folsom
had row, which resulted in the latter
rushing into court and causing the arrest
of his prospective mother-in-law upon the
charge Of larceny, alleging that she had
concealed goods in which he was
part owner. The hearing has been set for
JAM 9
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 2.-The Kempster-
Folsom difficulty was in court Wednesday,
afternoon, Mrs. Kempster spent the night
In the lookup, and when she was arraigned
In court In the morning on the charge of
embezzlement, the case was continued till
afternoon. In the afternoon the case was
continued until Jan. 9, Mrs. Kempster be-
ing released on her own cognizance.
Mrs. Kempster, when brought back
from st. Paul by inspector Howard, de
MED that she went away to escape arrest.
She says that she merely went to St.
Paul for rest. She ad nits owing Folsom
5000, and says that she turned over to
him the bill of sale of stock so that
he might protect her from creditors,
with the understanding that he
would not use it against her. Mr.. Fol-
som claims that the whole affair is simply
a business matter between him and Mrs.
Kempster. He lent her money, and is
merely trying to protect his own interests.
He has no malice in the matter at all. Of
course Miss Agnes does not love Mr.. Fol-
som any more. There are many of the
best ladies in Minneapolis who have
patronized Mrs. Kempster, and by them
she is held in high esteem.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
L. S. ST. P. &U.P
New Line through Wyoming and
idaho to the Pacific Northwest

This line is composed Of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha and Union Pacific Rail-
ways, and reaches more Far
Western Cities than any other line
as follows:
Haley, Boise City, Lewiston.
Moscow and principal Idaho
points.
Walla Walla, Colfax, Farming
ton, Rockford, Spokane Falls and
numerous Washington points.
Baker City, Pendleton, Portland
and principal Oregon points.
Ogden and Salt Lake City, the
largest points in Utah.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
all California points from Mt.
Shasta to San Diego.
And this line also reaches Butte,
Anaconda and many other points
in Montana.
Also note that by this line
accommodations are furnished in
Pullman Family Sleeping Cars at
very low rates to holders of
econd-class tickets going to
Washington, Oregon and Califor-
MIA.
When you get ready to go
West, before deciding upon your
route, call on agents of c., St. P.
M. & 0. Ry., who will cheerfully
furnish rates and information
about through car service over
the Lake Superior, St. Paul G.
Union Pacific Line" and connec-
tons, or for pamphlets and map
T. w. TEASDALE.
Gen'l PasengerAgent, St Paul,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
Cultivating Tomatoes Under Glass.

Heat, light and pure air in abundance
are required for the successful culture of
tomato under glass. These are both OBJ
tanned in a large house. w NJ Munson.
of Cornell University, advises one 90 by
SO feet. He offers the following hints in
American Garden to cultivatorS of this
fruit.
To make the best use of the house two
crops should be grown during the season.
Plants for the first crop ought to be start
ed in August; for the second crop in No
vember or early December, SO as to have
plants ready to take the place of the first
lot when the fruit is off in January.
Eighteen inch boxes containing four
plants have proven most satisfactory.
These are made foot deep, with cracks in
bottom for drainage. In training the
plants are tied to small cords fastened TO
the corners of the boxes, and attached
above to wires running lengthwise of the
building on the rafters. All side shoots
should be removed as often as once in two
weeks.
When three or four clusters of fruit
have set. the terminal bud should be
pinched off At this time it is well to
stir the surface of the soil and work in a
quantity of manure.
A temperature of 80 degrees should be
maintained at night On bright days the
mercury may run up to so degrees, or
higher, but in dark weather ventilate at
70 degrees. Do not permit cold draughts
to strike the plants. An abundance OF
water should be given; still the soil must
not be kept saturated. A general rule
would be to give eighteen inch boxes a
thorough watering every second day, OF
in dark weather every third day.
The best time to pollinate (fertilize) is
about noon ON bright days. The opera
ton consists in giving each plant two OF
three sharp taps with padded stick
There are several varieties that do wei
under glass.
The Lorillard is perhaps the best forcing
tomato. 1t is uniformly of medium size
good quality, handsome color, and is pro
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
ORIGIN OF THE OSAGES.
the Iribe-The Legend of the Beaver.

"A curious IradltIon tnat oDtalnS Among
the Tribe-The Legend of the Beaver.
In the winter of 1859, had on my
rolls several Usage Indians, who were
scouts, and they camped with me for
many weeks. Ono of them was Little
Beaver, once celebrated chief, but at the
time knew him he was almost an octo-
genarian. One of the others was called
Trotter, presumably because he was one
OF the famous runners. He would
boast that he could outrun any horse in
the Seventh Cavalry for 1000 miles, and
his people were always very anxious to
back him up in the proposition, but, of
course, we were too holly pursuing the
Cheyennes and kiowas to take him up.
had great MANY long and interesting
Interviews with the old chief He would
sit for hours around my campfire and
entertain me with the legends of his once
powerful tribe, who, though known to the
law and the Indian Bureau as Osages. are
called by themselves Wa-saw-sees or Wa
ba-shas (O.
| think as nearly as l have been able to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
The Man and the Mule.
Indianapolis journal,

l. The mule balketn, kicketh, waxeth
stubborn and proclaimeth there is but one
proper course, and that he is the sole
patentee thereof.
2. Whereat mankind is fain to fall upon
him with clubs of great weight and beat
him full sore.
3. Now the man of like mind COM
forteth himself IN manner similar to the
mule.
4. And the laborers in the vineyard look
upon him with awe, and the people say to
one another: Let US grant him his wishes
that we may have peace.
5. And in time he is gathered to his
fathers full of honors and followed by
brazep instruments discoursino s-ails of
woe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
KEAN OFFERS To- SETTLE.
He Makes A Proposition of 35 Cents
the Dollar.

CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-This evening, Attor-
ney Mayer, representing the creditors of
S. A. Kean received surprising offer
from the assienees of the insolvent bank
ing firm. The offer was that the creditors
be paid IS cents in cash by February l.,
and Is cents later, making a settlement
aside from tie secured claims of fifty
cents on the dollar. This is on the con-
dition that Mayer agrees to drop all legal
proceedings. He will accept the offer al
though he cannot say anything about
criminal proceedings, as he has no interest
in them. Mayer said that he would not
undertake to say how the assignees could
pay IS cents, when by their statements
they had declared that not more than 5
per cent. could be realized at once. He
left the impression, however, that Kean s
friends have come to the rescue. Kean s
liabilities are approximately a million
and half, of which throe ffths are Sc
cured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
HOME RULE DEAD.
The London Telegraph Suggests Re-
Arrangement of Parties in the House.

LONDON, Jan. 2. The London Tele-
graph CONSERVATIVE to-day invites the
followers of Gladstone to recognize man
fully the distasteful fact that home rule
for Ireland is deficient. The recent policy of
the liberal party, the paper thinks is GER
tain to give way to a deficient program,
while the party itself will at the same
time have to Lake new combinations.
After the next election says the Tele
graph, ''home rule will be bare
ly represented in parliament and
will sink to the level of the
radical fads - socialism, total abstinence
and the characterization craze, The same
paper further urges the Gladstonians to
discard vain imaginings and return to
the ancient ways of liberalism, and to ad
vocate the re-aranging of parliamentary
groups into the great national party on
one side of house of commons, and on the
otter a minority of restless, powerless
Irish separatists and English socialists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
A FLOOD IS FEARED.
The Ice In the Mononsahela Near Pitts
burg is Dangerous.

burg is Dangerous.
PITTsBURG. Pa, Jan. 2-The river to-
night is twenty-five feet and is rising
slowly. Several ice gorges passed down.
The Pittsburg and Western tracks are
covered but it is thought that the cold
snap stopped the food in time to save
the damage at least.
There was washout reported on
the Pan Handle and Wheeling
and Lake Roads in eastern Ohio.
On the Charleston, w. Va, division
of the Baltimore and Ohio the bridge was
in danger and the Kanawha river is rag
ing. The people in the low grounds are
leaving. At Johnsown serious alarm ex-
lists tonight because of the large amount
of ice upon the river several miles above
the city.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 2-The river is ris-
ing from PittsbuTg to here from 6 to Z
inches an hour. Below Cincinnati the
winds are making the river so rough as to
seriously hinder steamboat travel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
Coal Minors Strike.

PITTsBURG Jan. 2.-Thirty coal mines
along the Monongahela river are now idle
On account of the strike for an advance in
the price of mining. Three thousand men
are out, and they claim that the strike will
be general In few days
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
PERISH IN A MINE.
An Explosion in Berlin Proves Decidedly
Fatal

BERLIN, Jan. "A dispatch from
Bochun, West Phalia, announces that a
disastrous explosion has taken place in a
coal pit in that place. The total number
of lives lost is unknown. The bodies of
two men killed and nine injured have
been recovered but it is feared that a
number of other miners persisted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
Dayton Boy Dead.

DAYTON, Jan. 2.-The sad news of the
death of Bert Scott, son of Thomas Scott,
formerly of this city, but now of Nebraska.
was received here yesterday. He was II
yeaaS old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08

BARABoo, Special Telegram, Jan. g
Mrs. Smith, sister to ex-Sherif j. B.
Ashley, was thrown from a wagon while
on her way home last night and sustaine
several bruises In addition to three broken
ribs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
ARepublican Elected.

MAUsToN, Jan. AT the special cleo
ton held in Juneau county, Ole Larsen
the republican candidate for treasurer,
was elected by about 80 majority.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
COBURN Is WELL.
The Reports of His Ill Health Are Entire
Nv Unfounded

LA CROSSE, Jan. 2.-Reports as to Con-
gressman-elect Coburn's poor condition Of
health seem to be quite unfounded He is
in town two or three times each week and
says he is better than for year past and
will 60 to Madison.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08

Two samples Of sugar beets grown near
Perry, Iowa, were tested the other day,
and one was found to contain Is and the
other 20 per cent. of saccharine matter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
RECEIVES A RAISE,

II. FL. Rand is Appointed to a Good Posi-
ton in Washington.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The secretary of
the treasury today appointed A. S. Drum
mond, of New York, chief of the secret
service division of the treasury, and Henry
Il. Rand, of Wisconsin. chief of the divi-
sion in the fifth auditors office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
Keep Clean.

An old physician, being once appealed
to for some general co nprehensive rule for
the preservation of good health, replied,
Keep clean. Cleanliness from medi-
cal point of view, generally means the
absence of noxious germs. The laity
generally comprehend in the term freedom
from foreign substances, while the psy-
cholos ist and moralist have reference to
the purity of the mind and soul. All
these combined would form the first prin-
ciple of good health. Freedom from all
filth with reference to the body and its
surroundings, freedom from contamina-
ton of mind and soul, would make the
individual not onl free from material
rolutions, but would inspire him with
sense of cleanliness, a feeling of purity
that would cleanse life and glorify the
consciousness of living There is mean
ing in the word clean that penetrates
beyond things seen, and touches the men
tai and spiritual nature of humanity
Cleanliness In a material sense may not
abhor designations and debauches which
Cypress life with a sense of impurity,
vitiating the source of health and impair
ing its enjoyment. Keep clean is an
admonition carrying with it an inspiration
which not only invigorates life, but makes
it enjoyable and beautiful. Cleanliness
brings not only comfort and health, but it
adorns living, gives existence charm,
imparts consciousness of life, real enjoy
ment, thought and feeling of existence, the
purpose of sancity Of living. There is a
world of meaning in the two words keep
clean. SANITARY News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
SMALL PON Is RAGING.
The Border People Between Mexico and

the United States in Danger.
ST. LOUIS JAN 2.-For months past
the epidemic of small pox has been raging
along the Texas and Mexico borders, as
we'll as severa! towns in the interior of
Texas. Yesterday the Mexican govern
ment cook the matter in hand and sent
corps of physicians to Porgoria Diaz,
across from Eagle Pass, to vaccinate the
people and isolate those stricken with the
disease. A strict quarantine is enforced
on the American side
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
Historian Kinglake Dead.

LONDON, Jan. 2-Alexander William
Kinglake, the noted English historian, is
dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08

life. Volunteer and Dwarf Champion are
good. The latter is too small, but is very
handsome, and its habit is such that it
may be grown much nearer the glass than
other varieties. The larger varieties seen
inclined to be irregular when grown un-
der glass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
FIRE AT DEPERE.
A Livery Stable and all it's Contents Goes
Up in Smoke

DEPERE. Wis, Jan. "A livery stable
owned by Thiele & Mondysi5es was burned
to the ground last night, involving the loss
of all its contends, except the horses, which
were removed. A quantity of rolling
stock, harnesses and hay. amounting to
about $4,000, was destroyed. There is an
insurance of 81 500 on the carriages and
$500 on the harnesses. The building,
owned by J. Chase, was insured for s4OO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
he Courteous.

A boy who if polite to his father and
mother is likely to be polite to every one
else. A boy lacking politeness to his
parents may have TIE semblance of
courtesy in society, but is never truelv
polite in spirit, and is in danger, as he be-
comes familiar. of betraying his real want
of courtesy. We are all in danger of
living too much for the outside world, the
impression which we make in society. not
coveting the good opinion of those who
are in a sense part of ourselves, and who
continue to sustain and be interested in US
Notwithstanding these defects of deport-
ment and character We say to every boy
and girl, cultivate habits of courtesy and
propriety at home, in the kitchen as well
as in the parlor, and you will be sure
in other places to deport yourself in be-
coming manner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
GARFIELD'S son MARRIED.
Miss Helen Newell. of Chicago, is the Hap
ply Bride.

CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-Miss Helen Newell,
daughter of President Newell, of the Lake
Shore road, and James R. Garfield, son of
the late President Garfield, were married
tonight.