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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-04-05
BUILDING ASSIoUT DAM.
Eleven Thousand Men Work Night
and Day on the Bed of
the Nile.

The works of Assiout are under a tai
ented engineer, Mr.. G. II. Stephens, who
is a born ruler. He has had 1 1000 men
working night and day at his great dam
and the huge wall and the navigation
canal which accompanies it. This may
seem, when compared with Assouan, a
comparatively small affair, for it is only
to hold up ten or twelve feet of water
to supply a~bUndantly the great Jbra-
himieh canal, which in its course sup
plies the ancient Bahr Yusuf, and will
thus vastly increase the cultivable land
on the margin of the Libyan desert.
But in many ways the Assiout weir is
even more remarkable than a wall of
granite founded on a rock. 1t is built
on the bed of the Nile itself. Never
once has a rock been touched for the
foundations. Mr.. Willcocks has shown
in his saving of the old Barrage that q
permanent floor could be laid down on
the river bed, which, properly con
structed, would carry any weight of
masonry fit t resist the pressure of
any stream above it. This system is
practically the one used in the Assiout
barrage.
The Assiout dam is half a mile long,
and has a navigation lock at the west
side. The river has been Golfer damned
in sections, anda masonry and concrete
floor Gao feet below level of high Nile)
laid down as a foundation, 81 feet wide
by 10 feet thick. On this floor the SUI
perstructure is built. At both up and
down stream sides of this floor cast
iron sheet piles are driven down to a
further depth of 13 feet, the joints of
which are Theoretically sealed by ce-
ment grout, so that no percolations can
&c below the foundations. The barrage
has Ill openings of about 16 feet each,
which will be supplied with ordinary
sluices. The navigation canal lock will
be so feet wide. This last year (1S99)
o%ne-fourth of the whole work was done,
and the wages paid during June and
July, for instance), were e1,500 per
day.
The outlay at the Assouan dam was
even greater, so that immense sums are
spent among the natives of the coun-
try which the works are intended to
benefit permanently. All the work done
at both reservoirs was left safely above
the highest water level till next season,
and at Assiout no more Golfer dams will
be needed. There are 1850 men EN-
ployed at Assiout (and 5000 at AS
s~ouan), when the work had to be
stopped for the rising of the Nile. The
walls at both places are of stone and
cement. The blocks of stone were fire.
quently so warm, owing to the fierce
sunshine, that the mems hands were
blistered in lifting them, and the heat
of the place in June was 100 degrees in
the shade. But all has gone on, with
scarcely an accident. There were a
dozen cases of sunstroke, but only a
few deaths. 1t was remarked that
those who drank too much liquid of any
kind were most liable to it.-Ainslee's
Magazine.
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ri IS SHOWN.
Leading Commercial Agencies Pre-
sent Encouraging Reports
as to Conditions.

New York. March 31.-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
weekly review OF trade says: Progress
toward better things has been unmistaka-
BILE. 1t was a year ago that the frenZied
speculation in industrial stocks reached
it's elimination with prices averaging
higher than at any time since, while rail-
road stocks after some decline rose $l.lS
per share higher in September, and after
the fall in both, which ended in December,
have now risen SS.35 per share to the high
est point of this year. The advance during
the past week has been remarkably Wig
orous. and with more public support than
before.
Wheat exports fall far below lastyear's.
amounting in the week to 8, 766, S91 bushels,
against IA. los. $50 last year. The prize has
advanced "a cents, with statements that
the crop of France is greatly reduced.
though 1t is rather early to make n such
estimate. The exports of corn again prove
the magnitude of foreign demand for
cereals, as the extraordinary movement of
last year is closely approached, l1,794,Si5
bushels having gone abroad in four weeks,
against l3, l02, 81 last year. The western
receipts are nearly three times as large as
in the same week last year, indicating an
abundant supply on hand, but the price
has risen Ia cents.
Transactions through clearing houses
show a much smaller volume of business
than a year ago, the daily average for
March being 14.3 per cent. smaller than last
year, but 34.4 per cent. larger than in 1898,
Failures for the week have been 203 in
the United States, against 1874 last year, and
SO in Canada. against &c last year"
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FRENCH WIN A VICTORY.
FIeId-OhicIaI Account of Re-
cent Battle at Inrahr.

Paris, March 31.-An official account
has been issued of the victory of the
French troops over the Arab army at
Inrahr, which assembled with the OBJ
iect of attacking the French expedition
which recently occupied the oasis Of
Insalah, southwest of Algeria. The
French learned of the scheme and de-
cided to storm the enemy's position.
which was successfully carried March
10 by a column led by Lieut.. Col. Eu.
The town was first bombarded and
then stormed, the Arab warriors max
ing their last stand in the mosques.
They left 600 men killed and 100 wound
ed on the field. In addition $50 prison
ers were taken. The French losses
were nine native soldiers killed, 38
wounded and two officers wounded.
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Mount Hope.

Bristol county, II. l., is noted as con-
tanning the eminence known as Mount
Hope, which is celebrated as the resi-
dence of King Philip, the last of the
Wampancags, the Indian chief that
carried a long and destructive war
fare with New England's early set
tiers. Philip signed a treaty with the
Massachusetts Bay colony in 1871, in
the old church at Taunton, but the
negotiations were abridged and fierce
strife broke out in 1915 and lasted for
some time. King Philips wigwam was
fixed near the brow of the hill. Irving
wrote his biography, Southcy perpet-
uated his memory in poetry, and For
rest portrayed him on the stage.
Mount Hope is nearly opposite Fall
River, Mass.-Detroit Free Press.
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A SUCCESSFUL FARMER.

Within three miles of the town go
ing eastward is the farm of Mr.. w.
Creamer, one of the municipalities
largest and most prosperous mixed
farmers. Mr.. Creamer came to this
country in 1880 and settled on a por-
ton of the land which comprises his
present enormous farm of 1850 acres.
In common with many others of a
similar period he experienced al the
hardships and difficulties common 10
the absence of railway and market IA
%cilities. In no wise daunted, by en-
ergy, industry and indomitable will
stacles and has achieved an unpar-
alleled success, and is known through
out the district as one of its preemi-
nent farmers. His operations extend
over 1880 acres, two sections (the
thought alone of so much land makes
the eastern farmer dizzy; 500 acres
of this is broken and the remainder
is excellent pasture land and wood.
This harvest he took off a crop of
500 acres of wheat and 200 of other
grains. Four hundred acres are
plowed and ready for wheat next
spring. Mr.. Dreamer is, as has been
stated, a mixed farmer of no mean
proportions, having at the present
time 40 horses, 60 head of cattle and
so pigs. The most modern farm
buildings are found on his premises,
the main building being a barn IS
feet square on a stone foundation
containing stabling for 16 horses and
a large number of cattle. The loft
is stored with 30 loads of sheaf oats
for feed and tons of hay; there is
also a cutting box. Another building
of large dimensions is the granary, in
which after teaming large quantities
to market he still has stored 1900
bushels of wheat. A crushing ma
chine is in the building. There are a
number of lesser buildings contain
ing chicken house, pig pens and cattle
sheds. The farm residence is a hand
some frame structure of ample pro-
portions, in connection with it is a
wood shed. The water supply is UNI
excelled; besides house supply there
is a well in the stables and a never
failing spring situate in a bluff, which
never freezes. Surrounded by a thick
bluff of poplars, extending in a semi
circle to the west, north and east,
the winter storms are broken and ac-
emulation of snow unknown. Added
to his farming operations, Mr.. Cream
er conducts a threshing outfit for the
season. His success is only one in
stance of what can be accomplished
in Western Canada.-Baldur (Man.)
Gazette, Nov. 10th, 1899.
Thousands are going TO Western
Canada this year to take advantage of
the free homestead laws hat are be-
ing offered by the government.
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plTH AND POINT.

A mother should never consider her
slipper a boys sole necessity.-Chi-
cago Dispatch.
There r so many things to know
that there is a good deal of excuse for
ignorance.-Atchison Globe.
The man who tells all he knows
never gets credit for possessing much
wisdom.-Chicago Daily News.
The Tourist-"What did the poor
man say when he was accused of TAX
ing the c~attle?' Amber Pete-'"The
right thing, stranger" The Tourist
What was it?" Amber Pete-"Tn
be hanged."-Denyer News.
Mlle.-"And what did you say
to Capt. Martell?" Mary-"That
you'd be down in a minute, miss"
Mlle.-"And what did he say?" Mary
PLEASE, miss, he said: Then give
me a kiss before she comes Pick
Me-Up.
Sunday School Teacher-"Don't you
know what is meant by Grace before
meat?' What does your father say
when the family sits down to table,"
Willie-"He generally says: Well,
what the deuce is this stuff p Phil
adelphia Press.
Photographer Ito young LADY,
There is no need of telling you to
look pleasant, miss. Such a face can
not be otherwise than pleasant"
Young Lady (graciously)-"I will take
two dozen, sir, instead Of one Dozen"
Ohio State Journal.
what an exquisite complexion Miss
Thinner has. Is it her own?" Il
think l can safely say it is. She has
her Grandmother Bing's nose, and her
Grandfather Wings eyes, and her IA
theirs chin, and her mothers mouth,
and her Uncle Henry's ears, and her
Aunt James hair-but her complex
ion, / think, is entirely her own
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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WEST \ SOUTH.

Tor congress: Illinois,
Thirteenth district, Nespasian Warner
(rep.), renominated; Ohio, Fourth dis
trict, r. B. Gordon (dem.), renominat-
ed; Kansas, Third district, George ".
Wheatley (rep.).
In his eighty-fourth year Philetus
Sawyer, ex-United States senator from
Wisconsin, died at his home in Osh-
kosh.
The Alabama prohibitionists have
nominated w. B. Crumpton, of Jeffer-
son for governor.
At Beattyville, KY. 'Tallow Dick
Combs, a negro, was arrested, charged
with being an accessory to the assas-
sination of Goebel.
The death of c. X. Holiday, one of
the founders of the Santa Fe railway
and founder of the city of Topeka,
Kan, occurred there. aged 76 years.
On the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
road a special train ran from Los An
geles, Cal. to Chicago, 2,265 miles, in
81 hours and sc minutes, breaking all
records.
During a fight between a sheriff's
posse and a gang of outlaws near Nav
ajo Springs, y, NJ, two of the posse
were killed.
BY q cave-in at Spokane, Wash, five
men were killed and several seriously
injured.
1t is estimated that the population
of Minnesota. the Dakotas and Mon
tana is 2,7250oO, an increase of 900, 600
since 1890.
In Havana n daughter was born to
Gov. Gen. and Mrs. Wood.
Counterfeits have been discovered of
the one-dollar treasury note, check let
ter L. series 1891, Il. X. Bruce, register.
William Gard, aged % years, in a
fit of temporary insanity, shot three
men and then killed himself in Gin
cinnati.
In Spokane, Wash. George Webster
was hanged for the murder of Mrs.
LiSe Ashland.
In Waterloo. Ia, Lore Afford, a
leading lawyer and former speaker
of the Iowa house of representatives
committed suicide because of poor
health.
At Glendive. Mont, Joseph c. Hurst
was hanged for the murder of Sheriff
Dominick Cavanaugh.
In Chicago the strike of the 5000
machinists has been settled.
At the age of 90 years James W,
Owens died at Newark, o. He served
in the Fifty-irst and Fifty-second
congresses.
Fire destroyed the Columbia the
alter, one of the oldest and most popu.
lar play houses in Chicago, the loss
being 100000.
In Kansas City, Mo-. John Hayslip,
a horse trainer. was found guilty OF
numbering his wife and Maud Mitchell
and sentenced to 90 years imprison-
meDs-
In Chicago employers of labor be.
fore the industrial commission pre-
dicted revolution as the outcome OF
labor troubles.
From Manila the transport Sheridan
arrived in San Francisco with 416 dis
charged soldiers.
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At the Belleville (Il.) brewery three
robbers seized four men, locked them
in a refrigerator ear and took $4,000
in securities.
With a number of assistant surgeons
and 5000 tons of army supplies, the
transport Grant sailed from San
Francisco for Manila.
Frank Tucker and Fred Ross, fire.
men, were killed by falling walls in a
fire which destroyed the central high
school in Owosso, Mich, valued at
S125,0 o0.
Announcement was made by Presi-
dent Harper that he had secured the
So, 100000 donation to the University
of Chicago necessary to secure a like
amount from John ID. Rockefeller.
In central and southern Mississippi
heavy frosts damaged the fruit and
vegetable crops.
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Deaths at m Fire.

Owosso, Micn.. April 2. Fire Sun
day destroyed $15O,000 worth of school
property in this city, caused the death
of two men and injury to five others.
At seven o'clock in the morning the
city's $1,000 people witnessed the burn
ing of the central school, the largest
building in this county. The dead are
Fred Ross, fireman. and Frank Tucker,
school boy. The injured are Charles
Beatty and VIII Ross, firemen, and
Frank Rulledge, Frank Davis and Solo
mon Vogel, school boys. The fire start
ed from a chimney burning out.
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Don't Tell Ltes

where have you been, Mr.. Rocky"
demanded the boss.
'Oh, sir!" replied Rocky, menda-
ciously, my landlady is a most ex-
cellent woman, and she has been so i'll
that l had to stay at home to nurse
her."
This excuse went, and the boss
turned away. The following day
Rocky felt as if he had sand in his
head, and a headache as long as a
rainy Sunday in the country devel-
oped. He stayed at home, sending the
excuse hat his %landlady was dead
and he had to attend the funeral.
Later in the day a lady entered the
book store and inquired for Mr..
Rocky.
1.-THE reason / came here" she ex-
planned, SIS because / am his land
lady, md, not having seen him for a
week, l became uneasy and called to
inquire about him"
His landlady!" gasped the boss.
"Why, woman, he's attending your flu
neral this very day, and has been
nursing you for a week"
1T was a shock to the poor woman
to find she WINS dead, but a shock Of
another sort struck Rocky when he
came back to work. 1t was his flu
neral that time.-Louisyille Times.
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Paris, April 3. 1t is now settled
that Archbishop Ireland will deliver the
dedicatory address at the unwilling of
the Lafayette monument on July A..
The address will be spoken in French
and will be nonreligious in character.
Ambassador Porter will act as presi-
dent and the other American ambassa-
doris in Europe as vice presidents. Com
missioner General Peck will make the
address of presentation and Frank j..
Thompson, secretary of the Lafayette
monument committee to the EXPOSE
ton, will speak on behalf of the school
children. The monument will be I'M
yelled by AZ American girls, who will
null tricnlnred cords.
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nenth az sIdnex "A. Kent.

Sufield, Conn, April 2.-Sidney A.
Kent, who for years was prominent in
Chicago as a %speculator and organizer,
died at his summer residence here Sun
day, aged &C years. Death was the re-
suit of a complication of diseases from
an attack of influenza last January.
Among his many benefactions was n
gift of $255,00O which was used to erect
the building of the Kent chemical la
boratory of the University of Chicago
and the handsome library here, whien
was built as a memorial to his parents.
He also established an endowment
fund for the library's continuance.
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The News Condemned.

Andrew Anderson, a woodsman who
had been in a hospital in Ashland be-
cause of a broken leg, committed sui
eide by cutting his throat.
Capt. John Tetard died at Crested
Butte. Col. He was one of the best
known of the early settlers of South
ern Wisconsin, and was the first man
to run a BOAT out of Kenosha on Lake
Michigan.
The first rural delivery established
in Sank county is on Sank prairie, a
circuit of about 81 miles.
w. j. Brewster, captain of company
A, Third regiment. Wisconsin nation
al guard. died at Neillsville. He vas
in Porto kico with his company dur
ing the war with Spain.
The great immigration movement
to the west and northwest is sending
a considerable stream of new settlers
into northern Wisconsin.
The body of Fred L. Springstad,
private of company D. First Colorado
volunteers, who was killed in the Phil
ippines, was buried at Amigo.
The will of Clapp Miner, of Kenosha,
leaves an estate of 100000 to his
daughter, Mrs. Mark Knapp.
Mrs. Margaret Reid, % years of age,
died at Marshield from the shock of a
surgical operation.
The signal service bureau has an
nounced that an iron signal tower
will be placed at Bayfield, for storm
and weather signals, TO be equipped
with electricity for night Signals.
The post office at Kings Corners has
been discontinued.
The jury in the case of Pasquali
VIII. who was tried in Kenosha on the
charge of numbering Antonio Bruno,
found the prisoner not guilty.
John S. Monroe died in Wausaukee
at the age of II years. He was the
Oldest settler. and built the first house
on the site Of the village in the spring
of 1888.
The United States life saving crew
has gone on duty at Kenosha.
A. p. Peck. a G. 4. r. man. over 70
years of age. was adjudged insane at
Mazomanie and taken to Dane u
ty insane hospital. He served as first
lieutenant in the civil war.
The United States consul at Rome
cabled the death of Miss Anna o
ten. of Sparta. She was on a pleasure
trip to Europe.
Thomas Martin celebrated his n
hundred and first birthday in Osh-
kosh. When he came TO Oshkosh it
was only a settlement with a few scat
tered houses.
Appleton has dedicated a new city
hall and public library building.
A valuable cache of relics of the
copper age. consisting of many spears
and needles and a large knife, was I'M
earthed in the sand hills east of Two
Rivers.
West Salem's smallpox scare has
subsidized. The many supposed cases
of the dread disease prove to be Dutch
measles.
Between % and 30 children from the
Oneida Indian reservation will be
taken to Flandreau. S. D, where they
will be entered at the government
school at that place.
Nausau mas maze an oHeI u d "
acre site and $4,000 to obtain the To-
cation of the proposed new Presby-
terrain college.
Wagon manufacturers at Racine an
nounce an advance of 20 per cent. in
road vehicles.
The Rio state band has been organ
lied with $4,000 capital. William
Moore is president.
The will Of Joseph Stringham. made
public in Oshkosh, leaves an estate of
S350,O00 TO relatives.
Last weeks e~ast-bound through ship
menfs from Chicago OF -four, grain and pro-
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
HIS LIFE-WoRK D
Ex-senator PhfIetus Sawyer Passes
Away at the Home of His
Son In Oshkosh.

The death of former United States
Senator Philetus Sawyer occurred in
Oshkosh at the residence of his son.
As 500 as his death was announced
flags were placed at half mast all over
the city. and expressions of sorrow
were general. Mr.. sawyer leaves a
son, Edgar p. Sawyer, of Oshkosh, and
a daughter, Mrs. w. O. Goodman, of
Chicago. In 1871 Mr.. Sawyer was
married to Melvina NJ. Hadley, of YER
mont, who all through his remarkable
career was a true helpmeet to him.
She died in 1888.
Gov. Scofield issued a proclamation
directing that the flag of the capitol be
hung at h%alf-past until sunset on the
day of the funeral. which was held at
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Dispatches received in London say
the Beers were concentrating in force
about Is miles north of Bloemfontein,
in the rear of Glen, and Lord Roberts
was sending forward troops to engage
them. President Kruger has prom
ised to retake Bloemfontein within a
week. Lord Methuen and the forces
that have been operating in the Bark
~ district have been recalled to KIM
berley.
The seeming determination of Rus
STA to extend it's sway over Corea has
aroused the Japanese to a point where
war seems imminent.
In Illionis an alarming spread of
smallpox is reported to the state board
of health, which fears an epidemic.
Lord Roberts army was q miles
north of Bloemfontein. 1t occupied
a cluster of hills won from the Beers
after a stiff fight, in which the Brit
ish lost seven officers and nearly $50
men. Kruger has warned the women
and children to leave Bloemfontein
within five days. as he intends TO bonn
bard and destroy the city.
The well-known war correspondent,
Archibald Forbes. died in London.
Gonzales and Morales were hanged
at San Carlos in the Philippines for
numbering a countryman.
Announcement is made by the South
ern Cross antarctic expedition of the
discovery of the south pole.
Dispatches received in London say
that six guns and a British convoy
returning from Thaba Nchu to Bloem-
fontein were ambushed and captured
by Beers. The loss of life was not
great, since most of the British had
walked into the trap before a shot was
fired.
In his message opening the spring
session of the Mexican congress, Presi-
dent Diaz said the nation showed I'M
checked progress in every branch.
Gen. Pana, who has been terror
izing and devastating the province of
Panay, surrendered at Legaspi to
Brig. Gen. Kobbe and was taken to
Manila.
The fifty-seventh annual boat race
between the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge was won by the latter.
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AMERICAN

The pastor of the First Presbyte-
rian church at Pine Bluff, Ark, was
telling his congregation of his trav-
els in the Holy Land, and closed his
remarks with this incident, illustrate
ing American enterprise: "When at
Jacobs Well he drew therefrom with
his w hands a bucket of water;
after doing so and looking at the tin
bucket, he found it was a lard bucket
with the name of Swift and Com
pany' branded on same, which was
the same as he had seen in Pine Bluff
many times."-Kansas City Gazette.
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Won oratorIcaI Contest.

Clarence Z. Mccartney. of Denver,
Col, a junior IN the civic historical
course, won in the final o%ratorical
contest at the university in Madison,
with an grafton on National Apos-
tasy," gaining the prize and 500 and
making him the university repre-
sentative in the final contest mere in
May of the Northern Oratorical
league, representing the universities
of Wisconsin, Michigan. Illinois,
Northwestern. Iowa and Oberlin.