Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-16


The officials of the Interior and Treas
ury Departments warn people who are
going TO Klondize TO look out for bogus
agents, excursion clubs ana other per-
sons and organizations that offer low
rates and inducements in the way of
transportation, care, guidance, etc. There
are companies whose advertisements in
the newspapers are prima-facie evidence
of fraud, and the special agents of the
Postotiice Department are now engaged in
the investigation of several sharpers who
are offering impossible Inducements. One
company, for example, proposes to fur
nish transportation, food, bedding and all
other necessaries for $3.50, 20 per cent.
to be paid in advance, with the applics-
tion. and the balance when the ticket Is
issued upon starting. Other clubs and
excursions offer even better rates, and
in every case the applicant is required TO
make n deposit as n guaranty of good
faith. 1t is evidently the deposit that
the rascals are after. All persons, there
fore, are warned against contracting for
transportation or buying railway or
steamship tickets from any but the regu-
lar authorized agents of railway and
steamship companies.
Washington society is queer mixture.
OF course there is society and society.
There Is the 400" and there is the 40"
and again there is the combination of two
or three who swing the 40 and the remain
ing $50. Then again there is another 400;
and several subsidiary swirls and edfies
each claiming for itself superior qualities
of eXclusiyeness intellectually, wealth,
permanency or swelldom. Anybody may
be in Washington society. but anybody
can't be In any society which anybody
wants to he in. Many can't be In the
Supreme Court Justices society, and
know Of some distinguished Il. L. VS.
with permanent abodes al this city who
are eating their hearts for chagrin at
their inability to break into the admins
tration set"
The Secretary of Agriculture has re-
ceived the following pathetic communi
cation from Bell County, Texas:
Dear Sr.-I want to ask you Ques-
ton. 1t may seem foolish to you, but l
am very much in earnest. A young horse
of mine eat up $50 of green back notes
last night. We picked up a few bits Of
mesticaded money to-day. | carelessly
left my vest on the horse trough the mon
ey in the inside pocket hence the result
Is there any way for me to have the mon.
ey replaced? If you can't tell me what te
do will you kindly site me to some one
who 10 | nnaI tha huI and
have to work hard to support my family.
/ anxiously wait your answer
A short time ago a United States Sena-
tors widow was appointed postmistress
in a small town in Minnesota. The place
was given her to keep her from starving.
Less than five years ago she was enter
tanning on a scale as elaborate as the most
wealthy people in Washington. She was
struggling for position, and was spending
her husbands income, and also his saw
ings He died suddenly, and she was left
destitute, and have yet to learn that the
people who ate her dinners have contrib
uted to her support.
Chief Justice Fuller rushes business
through the Supreme Court more rapidly
than any man who ever presided over
that body, and there are now sixty-four
cases under advisement that have been
submitted by briefs and arguments thus
far during the present term. That is the
reason why an adjournment has been taxi
en- for three weeks. 1t is absolutely nee
essary for the justices TO have time to con
slider them.
In certain Washington sets men are
scarce, and competent authority asserts
that good-looking young men in the de-
partments, whose salary of 500 a month
is quite insufficient to enable them TO hire
carriages and buy flowers, are taken TO
theaters, receptions and to big dinners by
women who pay all the bills for the sake
of having escorts.
One hears q variety Of pronunciatiOns
of the word Cuba" in Congress Some
of the statesmen pronounce il "Cuby,"
others "Cubah" and still more "Kooba,"
while large number of insurgent sympa-
thizers are in the habit OF alluding TO the
inhabitants of that distracted island az
"Coobyans."
Carroll d. Wright, Commissioner Of
Tabor, has received a personal letter from
Samuel Durham, a statistical expert OF
tho Bureau Of Labor who was sent to the
Klondike some months ago to investigate
and report on its Industrial possibilities.
He reports the situation as very grave.
Ex-Secretary Morton, since he left the
cabinet If President Cleveland, has been
spending his time writing poetry and
building handsome little theater called
THE Overland" at Nebraska City, where
he has lived for fortytwo years.
The Vice President and Mrs. III, bart
were among the guests Of honor at q ball
at the British legation the other night,
so that the war for precedence between
the Hobarts and Sir Julian Pauncefote
may DC considered over.
Secretary Bliss has received and trans
mitted to Congress a protest adopted by
a convention Of n Imber Of members Of
the Seminole tribe of Indians against the
ratification Of the treaty concluded in De
cember last
The proposed cut in mail deliveries in
the larger cities Of the East, which was
to have become operative on February /,
in order to avert deficiency in the postal
appropriation, did not go into effect at
that time.
After an unusually prolonged period Of
extreme tension, all signs point to an early
Improvement, if not to a complete solu-
ton of the various international political
problems agitating the nerves Of Great
Britain.
A few days ago letter was received at
the Senate postofice addressed to the
Hon. Zach Chandler" As he has been
dead for eighteen years, the letter was
handed TO Senator Hale, his son-in-law.
Senior Dupuy de LONE, the Spanish min-
lister, says that Tuesday was the first
day in three years that he has not re-
ceiyed eablegram from Cuba or Spain,
and he considers it a good omen.
Ex-oIeen LilioukaIaui is trying to coun-