The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-04-14


He found Judge Frazier lying upon
the bed, a fine specimen of Kentuckian
physical manhood. He made known his
business. Judge Frazier waited until
he had concluded and then replied:
No, sir. No d Yankee tin ped
der can be clerk of that COURT"
Mr. Catlin then retired, giving UP all
Idea Of his appointment. But short
time after the court convened mes
senger came to him and Informed him
that his presence was required at the
supreme court room. 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.
W
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 a good deal
Of political shreWdness. They are
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
it is an ADLER company of men than
two years ago. There are 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
Go. It must be said, too, that there is
a sprinlxling of smart, strong men who
get strangely off on their ballotlng
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 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 legislator.
He is AZ years old, was born in Erie
county, Pa, and settled in Neillsville
when a 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, it is the taxation bills.
Neillsville has $500 people, the me-
tropolis of Clark county, and has no
competition nearer than Marshfeld,
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 a
blight on Republican aspirations r. j.
Mcbride, CIevelands 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 a fine 400
acre farm.
Mr.. Sturdevant says the pine is pref
ty we'll cleaned out in his county, but
there is a 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
tons 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 Neillsville, which employees
seventy-fve hands and makes tables,
bedroom suites, broom handles and
many other articles
Settle 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. It requires a quarter of a
century for pine root to rot, whereas
a hardwood stump will disintegrate in
SIX or seven years. There are good
many stump extractors used, two or
three farmers clubbing together the
$500 needed to buy one. 1t is hard
work to get rid of the Stumps but the