Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
STATE FAIR Is SURE.
Friction with Old Board Smoothed
over---May Buy Grounds.
AN sNT..sAL0ON MOVEMENT ON.

Became Great-His Friend Casson's Am
bition.
Madison. Wis. Jan. 1.-THE friction
between the new board of agriculture
appointed by the governor and the old
state fair crowd il gradually being
smoothed over. and the outlook is quite
good for united effort for q state fair
next fall that shall be worthy of the
state. The appointing of President s
ID. Hubbard of the old board to a place
on the new board, made vacant by the
retirement of Jesse Stoal OF Water
| town, did a good deal to appease the
old crowd, and committee is appoint
ed to prepare premium list Where
the fair will be held is in doubt, but
probably in Madison (where the County
Fair association has q splendid mile
track, or in Milwaukee. The Milwau.
kee grounds will be sold June 80, under
foreclosure of the states big mortgage
and the attorney general has given an
opinion that the state is competent ia
bid in the plant, II 1t desires.
| There are advantages about Milwau.
kee as location, for visiting farmers
can then see the big city and do their
shopping. On the other hand, 1t is ar
| gued that by holding the fair nearer
| the center of the state, more farmers
would attend 1t.
Matching Fish for Summer Tourists.
Wisconsin spent $4,000 in 1897 on its
| fish hatcheries, though this year 1t is
| estimated that $1S,5l5 will be sufficient.
| It is a goodly sum, though 1t Is main
tanned that the good fishing in stream
| and lake all over the state is due to the
| constant supplying of these bodies of
water with fry and yearlings. The
hatchery four miles out OF Madison is
we'll worthy visit, especially In spawn
ing time, when the fish are eorallad.
the eggs squeezed from the females
| by hand and later impregnated with
the male element obtained in lie man
ner. The fish are fed mainly wi. liver,
which Is bought in large quantities,
chopped by machinery, and thrown 20
them by the dipperful. The effect OF
this artificial feeding Is to make the
flesh taste Strong so 1t is hardly
worth while to steal the fish, though
farmers in the neighborhood have been
known to do such a thing. The fish
are kept in granite-lined pools and the
water is sometimes literally alive with
them; there is great commotion when
they are fed. The eggs are Matched out
while spread in trays in running water,
and a six-months' old trout is an inch
long-quite a fish, in fact. They look
like tad-poles when first they break
the eggs, and part of the egg sticks
to them for some weeks and from this
they draw their nutrition until they
6auaInnad fn
mouth. Fish work by instinct; an in
teresting instance is the trick by which
they are coralled in the spring, the
snawning time. They are then looking
for proper place to lay their eggs
Trout in the big streams are then ac-
customed to make their way up to the
source and up into the small rivulets
where it is quiet, and where the young
fish. when Matched, may be removed
from the big fish, their enemies. When
the fry. as the baby fish are called, are
dumped into the streams, they are put
into the creeks, rather than in the main
stream for this reason
No Salaries, but They Travel Free.
The fish commission has abolished the
Milwaukee hatchery for wall-eyed pike
for the reason that the water brought
in through the new intake pipe is too
cold. The young fish died in 1t. Here
after they will be Matched In Oshkosh
The new fish law prevents the securing
of white fish eggs from the fishermen
another reason for closing the Milwau-
kee plant. There Is to be an inter-
state fish commissioners convention In
Tampa, Fla, Jan. 10, and the governor
and the fish commissioners expect to
go. fhe terms Of two commissioners
expire In April-Calvert Spensley Of
Mineral Point and James T. Hogan Of
Lacrosse. There are no salaries con-
nected with these positions, but they
carry free transportation all over the
state and occasional junketing trips out
side the state.
May Move tho Tomah Hospital.
Madison is agitating a hospital. The
Catholic sisters used to run one here
thirteen years ago, and later two ply
sicians conducted one for nearly four
years, but it could not be made finan-
cial success. There was a big meeting
Of citizens in the assembly chamber the
other Sunday night, presided over by
President Adams Of The university, and
later DR.. Simonson of Tomah turned
mp with a proposal to move his hospital
mere. The st. Paul railroad pays him
$1,000 year and sends him many VIC
tins of accidents on it's 6,100 miles of
track. He offers to put up a hospital
here of sixty beds. IL the citizens win
pay him $1,000 year. That will entitle
them ian association care and treat
ment equal to a day of he same reach
dollar they put up. Simonson is
surgeon Of standing and the offer is
believed to be a good one, but the
local physicians don't seem to take to
it very enthusiastically. They appar-
entity dislike to have more competition,
exactly as the dry goods men or shoe
dealers dread to have new merchant
in that line. Madison needs a hospital
very much, especially for the poor and
for the students. A boarding house is
not pleasant place to be sick In.
In Wisconsin cities Of over 10000 peo-
pie there are thirty-three hospitals
Milwaukee has ten. The Catholic sis
tiers conduct good many such institu-
tons.
Trying to Abolish Saloons,
Rev. Howard Russell will soon be do
ing some temperance agitation in Wis
consin. He is from Columbus, o., and
is the superintendent Of the Anti-Sa-
loon league. His movement is a fresh
attempt to unite the temperance people
and make It easy for people who can't
go the entire prohibition programme
He pledges people to vote In local cleo
tions for only those officers who will
agree to crush the saloons. He speaks
in the Presbyterian and Congregational
churches Of Madison on a coming Sun
day ane is also booked for other county
seats.
It all recalls the anti-saloon Repub-
lican movement of 1885, started by Kan
sas prohibitionists Of Republican affil-
iations, but which was regarded with
scant favor by the masses and finally
dzzled out in 1888, after the presidential
campaign. Albert Griffin, Kansas ed
itor, called the first national eonven-
ton in Toledo. The Blade Of that city,
though a red~hot anti-saloon paper in
the time of Petroleum v. Nasty, treat
ed the movement colby. The Toledo
convention was called off ard more
timid call issued for a Chicago conven-
ton. There were 200 delegates present,
among them William Window, after
wards secretary of the treasury, and
Senator Blair of New Hampshire; head
quarters were SCI up In New York. But
the party was not proud of its new
child. Chairman Quay disclaimed re-
sponsibility for it, though Griffin kept
busy circulating documents urging citi-
zens to vote for Harrison and Morton.
There were some good men in the or
ganization and they all meant well, but