Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-14
GRAND RAPIDS, WOOD
NEIGHBORlNG NOTES.
Taken From Our Exchanges and Com
densed For Local Readers.
BICYCLE CASE WON BY POWERS.

ago R. E. Powers, of the Herald,
jumped upon his wheel at the DeImonico
restaurant and started south on Third
street. At the corner of Third and
Jackson streets, in attempting to get
out Of the way of James Edee's rig, he
ran into one of the approaches to the
sidewalk. Powers claimed that he was
on the right side of the street, where
he had right to be and where the law
says that he shall be and was crowded
into the walk by Edee in an unlawful
manner. Mr.. Edee denied the charge
and said that Powers ran in ahead of
his horse as the corner was beng turned
In q manner entirely unWarranted and
had his wheel smashed. The case hung
fire for a couple of weeks but was
finally brought off before Judge Miller
last Thursday and Friday. On Satur-
dav morning Judge Miller found for the
plaintiff who secured a judgment for
$3.50. The case will undoubtedly be
carried to the Supreme Court.
Marshfeld Times: County superin-
tendent Havenor visited the Marshfield
schools last week. Mr.. Havnor in
formed us that i'll all probability two
teachers institutes of two days each
would be held this winter, one at this
some time after the holidays. There is
something like SIS in the institute fund.
This fund is created by the one dollar
tax charged each applicant who writes
for certificate.
Superior Leader: The Madison Jour
nal in referring to Gov. Upham's re-
ported ambition to be vice president
asks this question:: Upon what meat
dot this oup food tbot bo botb
grown SO great?''
LAMONT AND THoRP.
Wausau Record: It is not the PROV
ince of newspaper to pick news before
it is ripe as, by so doing, the ends of
justice are liable to be sometimes thwar-
ted. Believing this to be true, The
Record has been waiting for two weeks
fol proper development of events that
would justify it in publishing certain
facts about Henry Lamont and George
ThOrp that would interest the public.
The time is not yet oppOrtune for such
publication, but as the West Superior
correspondent of the Milwaukee Senti-
mel has let the cat out of the bag, there
can be no object in withholding the
facts longer.
1t is morally certain that the two men
in question, both of them now in the
custody Of officers, are the men who
held up the train near Waupaca in
September last. After Thorpe broke
Jail in this city he went to Kelly, as re-
lated in this paper yesterday, and the
two have been tracked from Kelly to
Waupaca, where they are known to
have been on the day Of the hold up.
ThOrp was probably the man who en-
tered the express car and handled the
dynamite, SO the officers think. After
the robbery of the express car, the two
brother criminals went to West Supe-
rior and the route by which they trav-
eled is known. That is all we can say
on the subject at present, as there are
some matters that haye yet to be
cleared up.
The Wausau Record in commenting
upon the recent water power contest in
the circuit court of this city closes a
short article as follows:
If the water power rights of Grand
Rapids are consolidated there is much
work ahead for the consolidators, and
more time will be consumed Mean
while parties looking for water power
will locate at points along the river
where rights can be secured over which
there is no dispute.
dustrial hive for the entertainment of
the tramp visitors of Brown county. 1t
will be workhouse in fact as well as in
name and vagabonds will be compelled
to work before they are allowed to eat.
When they get onto the idea Brown
county, no doubt, will be given wide
berth. The Green Bay Gazette SAYS:
If, by-and-by, after the rigors of our
tramp workhouse become known, that
institution shall prove sufficiently a
bug-bear to keep the tramping gentry
at distance, the end aimed at in pro-
yiding the workhouse will have been
throughout the Union should follow the
example Brown county has set, and
establish tramp prisons where work
shall be compulsory under penalty of
starvation, the perpleXIng tramp prob
lem, SO burdensome upon the taxpayer
especially during the winter months,
will speedily and permanently solve
itself.
THE MEEHANs LOSE.
Stevens Point Journal: At st. Paul,
Judge R. R. Nelson, of the federal
court, has filed decision in the case of
Meehans VS.. Ray W. Jones, IN which he
gives judgment quietiEg the title in the
complainant, who claimed to hold,
under lease executed by Moosedung,
the Indian chief certain land at Thief
River Falls granted under treaty. 1t
is held that the words 'set apart a
reservation" in this Indian treaty,
where there is no provision for land
patents to be issued, conveyed to the
chief such title to or interest in the
lands selected by the reserve, that he
could execute a valid lease therefor,
and that it was not necessary that such
lease should be approved by the secre-
tary of the interior
The land involved is saw mill site.
! at Thief River Falls. 1t was leased by
Ray w. Jones from Monsi-moh. the
chief, and the Meehan Brothers fought
the validity of the instrument claiming
prior rights, and also that the erection
of mill by Jones on the proposed site
would render useless certain valuable
improvements of their own.
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