Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-13

He found Judge Frazier lying upon
soe bed, fine specimen Of Kentuckian
physical manhood. He made known his
business. Judge Frazier waited until
he had concluded and then replied:
mo, sir. No d Yankee tin ped
dler can be clerk of that COURT
Mr.. Catlin then retired, giving up all
idea of his appointment. But a short
time after the court convened mes
senger came to him and informed him
that his presence was required at the
supreme court rooU. He went over
there, found Chief Justice Dunn and
Justice Irving upon the bench alone.
The chief justice informed him that the
court had appointed him it's clerk, and
he thereupon was sworn In and began
his duties as such. 1t appeared that
Judge Frazier had become intoxicated
and was unable to appear upon the
bench that day, and Judges Dunn and
Irving concluded to wait no longer for
him for the full organization of the
court and appointed Mr.. Catlin.
Reliable Lawmakers.
Every session brings some young
men, hitherto unknown, to the front.
George Buckstaff of Oshkosh was an in
stance of that four years ago; and
Flett of Merrill even a better one two
years ago, as Flett had no prestige back
of him. Both were university men,
and both could always be depended
upon on all sorts of questions. While
there was no lack of principles which
everyone understood, they had the
knack of getting along with men, and
Buckstaff, especially, has good deal
OF political shrewdness. They are q
real loss to this session.
The striking feature Of the personnel
of the assembly this year is the alb
sence OF conceded leadership. AS body
1t is an ADLER company Of men than
two years ago. There are a dozen or
more outside of the half-dozen most
prominent who have ideas of their own
and can express them in good fashion
and have a following of votes. But they
don't work together as some legislatures
do. 1t must be said, too, that there is
a sprinkling of smart strong men who
get strangely off on their balloting
sometimes, and who, when you expect
them to stand pat on some measure
that seems to be for the public veal, or
against it, are missing when you look
under your thumb.
Clark County Sends IA Good Man.
While nine out of ten members fall
into the routine and cut no especial
figure, there are always some who,
through native force, come to the 'front.'
In this, of course, trained lawyers have
an advantage Sturdevant, the Neills-
Vile lawyer Is one who Is displaying
considerable ability and the loyalty to
right that people look for in q legislator
He is AZ years old was born in Erie
county, Pa, and settled in Neillsvile
when boy of years.
Mr. Sturdevant has been district at
torney and chairman of the Republican
county committee He has wife and
three children, If he has any hobby,
apart from careful work on the judi
ciary committee, 1t is the taxation bills.
Neillsville has $500 people, the me-
tropolis of Clark county, and has no
competition nearer than Marshfield,
twenty-three miles away. 1t Is the home
of Circuit Judge James O'Neill, who
was twice candidate for attorney gen.
eral in the days when Peckism cast q
blight on Republican aspirations. r. J.
Mcbride, Cleveland's consul to Edin-
borough, and Mr.. Ring, the legal rep
resentative of the Northwestern rail-
way, also call Neillsville home; also ex
Senator Youmans, who has fine 400
acre farm.
Mr. Sturdevant says the pine Is pref
ty well cleaned out in his county, but
there is IA large hardwood industry.
This product is shipped to Ex-Governor
Upham's furniture factory and to the
Menasha WOODWARD company, of which
Smith, the millionaire Congregational
list. Is the head. The numbering opera
lions are in part done by the two sons
of George Hiles. Not a little of the
wood is worked up in the furniture fac
tory in Neilsville, which employees
seventyfive hands and makes tables.
bedroom suites, broom handles and
many other articles.
Settlers on Cleared Land.
Settlers are coming into this section
constantly. Land with the timber cut
is worth from $12 to SIS an acre. Then
comes the work of getting out the
stumps. 1t requires quarter of Il
century for pine root to rot, whereas
hardwood stump will disntegrate in
six or seven years. There are n good
many stump eNtractors used two or
three farmers clubbing together the
800 needed to buy one. 1t is hard
work to get rid of the stumps, but the
machine will jerk out five or six per
day. Half the county is cleared and
the soil is excellent
An Ex-County Superintendent.
The Darlington district always sends
interesting people to Madison. Senator
Martin is no exception. He is a uni
versity graduate and is lawyer,
though for six years he was county SUI
perintendent OF the ideal kind that Is
talked so much about now that Super
intendent Harvey's school reform bill
is up. He has been mayor. district at
torney, etc, and had whrl in the as
sembly in 1895. 1t was Martin who
made speech nominating MIR. Cook for
the federal senate that most of us
thought the gem of the evening
Echoes of an Able Senate.
Among the new senator's are Hatton
of New London. a lumberman. one of
the few who has held no previous office
except on boards of education. Rey-
pn1iG who Iya