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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
MAFEKING IS FREE.
SIEGE is RAISED AFTER MONTHS
or PERIL.
Baden-Powell's Garrison OF BRUSH
soldiers Freed from the Boer Gordon
which Has Surrounded Them since
the Opening of the War.

Adyices reached Sydney, \. >. W.
Friday announcing the relief OF Mare
king. The news was received with en-
thusiastic demonstrations and the Gov
eminent proclaimed holiday. A speclai
dispa tch from Lorenzo Marques says the
last 500 refugees who arrived there agree
that Mafeking has been relieved
The history of the siege Of Matching
dates from Oct. Il, the day OF the pc
ginning of the war The armed force OF
Britons within the city at that time ala
not exceed 700. What it numbers now
is purely matter of conjecture. III COM
harrison London fears it is a mere hand1ui
and the reports of the various battles
and skirmishes give color to this appre-
hension. Bulletins of British victories
have always been accompanied with lists
of casualties more or less large.
A sample of the British sorties was the
one on the day after Christmas. Under
the leadership of Captain Vernon the sol
diers fought their way up to the entrance
to the Boer trenches. True. they We're
repulsed and their loss was dlsastrously
heavy to a garrison so small. but the
courage displayed in the daring charge
was alike an inspiration to the defenders
of the city and an object lesson to the
besiegers.
Attacks in force prior to the final UNI
ayailing attempt May l., were made by
the Beers on Oct 81, Feb. II and March
80. The first one was of only one days
duration. but the other two each contin-
ued for two DAYS The most disastrous
one for the garrison was the battle III the
closing days of March, when, according
to advices from British sources, nearly
every officer in the city was wounded.
The defense Of Mafeking by the heroic
British garrison under Col, Baden Powell
will live in history. Individual valor was
even more markedly displayed than col
lective bravery. Courage in battle was
coupled with endurance under privation,
which, it has been said, has as a parallel
in the annals of the British army only
the indomitable resistance at the siege
of Lucknow Fever and famine were
foes even more persistent than were the
Afrikandcrs.
Under almost continuous bombardment
and frequently called upon to repel at
tacks III force. the garrison was never
surprised. The soldiers slept beside their
arms, and in this case the expression is
literally correct. Night alarms were fire.
quent and the response was as prompt
as if the men had already been lined up
in expectation of battle. Strengthening
Of courage was the only sequel to grad
ual weakening of numbers from the fire
of the enemy without or the ravages of
disease within
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
DECLINE OF TRADE.
BUSINESS NOT WHAT IT WAS A
YEAR AGO.
Some Call It Only the Usual Spring
Dizziness, Others Think 1t the Reac-
tion from Last Years. Activity A

r. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review Of
trade says: Business is not what it was
a year ago, but men do not agree in de-
filming the difference. The working force,
then increasing fast, is now decreasing.
Works are stopping to relieve excessive
output in manufactures of paper. cotton,
wool, leather and some forms Of steel,
while prices are suddenly reduced for the
same purpose in lead, wire and nails.
What seems to some merely spring dull
ness others think the beginning Of re-
action. The remedy for one difficulty
does not fit the other, and there is more
need than usual for close attention to the
meaning of events. In place of the wild
speculation in securities which sweled ex-
changes a year ago there has come such
liquidation that twenty preferred indus
trial stocks have sold this week at prices
averaging 1914 a share, though the
same stocks sold in April last year for
$99.66 a share, and twenty common have
sold this week for $3S.49 which sold last
year at $3.50, double the price. The
industrials have reached the lowest av-
erage they have ever known. Failures
for the week have been III in the Unit
ed States, against 147 last year, and 30
in Canada, against Il last year"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24

party, come back in the evening with
their strings, and then he is as much
interested as any one.
Uncle Joe" Cannon, the chairman of
the House committee on appropriations,
is another ''rain barl" fisherman, as the
guides call the statesmen who stick to
the club house verandas on hot days and
let others blister in the sun, Turing the
willy bass. He is very fond of fishing
excursion, and starts off with great en-
thusiasm, but the next morning. when
the boat parties are made up, will find
'Uncle Joe" making for a hammock at
the breezy end of the veranda with
handful of cigars and book.
OF course, the king fisherman among
statesmen Of latter years was Grover
Cleveland. When he was in the White
House he went frequently to nearby fish
ing grounds after smal-mouth black bass.
Mr.. Cleveland's fayorite bait was frog.
THAT fellow" says Old Man Petty
john, up at Edwards Ferry. could set
on rock and cast a frog furd erin any
man | ever SEEN" He tells the story on
the former President that one day they
were fishing in rocky water, and, not get
ting a strike for long time, the Presi-
dent set about to investigate, when he
found that his frog had calmly climbed
on a rock and was summing himself Sc
renely, hook in mouth. The Presidents
remarks upon that occasion were omitted.
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'seleSraphic Rrevitics.

Business part Of Hartsville, Tenn,
burned. Loss 100000.
Norton's fertilizing plant, Washington
was damaged $6O,0JO by fire.
A Chicago company will buy 800 acres
Of timber land in the Philippines
Little Rock, Ark. Traction Company
has been placed in the hands Of re-
ceiver.
Chicago police are looking for the acid
thrower. who throws the liquid on wonl-
ems dresses as they pass along the
streets.
The villa Of AIr. and Mrs. w. S.
Wells of New York, IN Newport, was
DESTROYED by fire. The loss Will reach
100000.
Mrs. Potter Palmer will entertain dur
ing the Paris exposition in the house of
the Marquis de Montgomery, near tn
Iroeadero, paying for it $1,000 month
rental
Cen. French is known as .Silent
French. Tho now famous cavalry lead
ser started his career on the deck of a
man-of-War, abandoned 1t for the infan-
fry, and on leaving this entered the cav
airs branch OF the service
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fly or the big pickcrel that takes bait
on troll, it is all one to him, and every
famous fishing water in his State abounds
with legends of his skill. He is not es-
pecially approachable in his official ca
pacity, but he is another being in camp
and the old boatmen address him with
impunity as .'Cush." A man is fool
who wears robe of dignity when he
goes fishing. He will trip up in it sure.
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania is adj
dicted to deep sea fishing. The habit of
angling, contracted in the trout streams
of Pennsylvania, has grown upon him
to such an extent that ordinary sport
does not satisfy his craving any longer.
He needs must travel all the wax to
Florida and spend days seeking the fierce
tarpon. He has a charming little hunt
ing lodge on the Florida coast. and when
ever he finds the cares of craftsmanship
or politics depressing him he takes train
and is away for week or two of sport.
Senator Gears Luck.
Senator Gear of Iowa is known to ev-
cry guide and boatman of the upper Po-
tomac. In fact, there is one famous
spot in the river called Gears Hole, af-
ter the Iowan. 1t is near an exclusive
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
MEASURE HELD VALID.
Supreme Court Declares Inheritance
Tax Constitutional.

Supreme Court Declares Inheritance
Tax CONSTITUTIONAL.
In deciding that the inheritance tax
law was constitutional and valid and
that it applied to the legacy and not to
the estate as whole, the United States
Supreme Court made Uncle Sam pres
ent Of about $6O,00O,0O0. The decision
was handed down in a test case brought
by Abram M. Pence, George A. Carpen-
ter and Shirley L. High, counsel for the
appellants, Shirley L. High ct al, in a
suit which sought to restrain the collec-
ton of the war revenue tax on the estate
Of the late James T.. High by Revenue
Collector Frank e. Coyne Of Chicago.
Millions of dollars collected by the Gov
eminent officials during the last twenty
one months remained tied up in the Unit
ed States treasury vaults awaiting this
decision Of the highest court in the land
on the constitutionality Of the special in
heritance law raised by the Chicago law
firm. In addition to this large sum there
is due several million dollars from estates
which declined to pay until the right to
levy taxes as taken by Congress was
passed upon by the Supreme Court.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24

laurels of his elders. He will have to
do some active fishing to get in their
class. but he has been making some
great records in the past two years. lie
is fond of bass and trout and is enthusi-
astic upon the subject of the Potomac
variety Of bass
In the House Of Representatives the
chief of the fishing brigade is Represent
ative ueatwole Of Minnesota. he is
natural-born fisherman. He will sit in
boat for half day with never strike
and yet be happy, and, after all, that IS
the supreme test Of the fisherman. Heat
wole has fshed for every kind Of game
fish that swarms sea, lake or river, and
If any one should suggest heaven with
out bass stream, it would be no para
disc for him.
Representative Babcock Of Wisconsin.
chairman of the Republican congressional
campaign committee, will be too busy
fishing for votes this summer and fall to
make his usual tour Of the Wisconsin
lakes. The records of his catches are
scattered through every notable club book
in Wisconsin.
How the Speaker Angles.
Speaker Henderson of the House OF
Representatives is tisherman-after a
fashion The spirit is willing, but the
flesh is weak. He has the instinct, but
his wooden leg interferes, so he sits on
the veranda Of the club house all day,
reading and smoking and taking in the
glorious ozone of the mountains, chatting
with the old guides and boatmen. until
1.-THE boys" as he calls the others of the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
BOOMING THE WEST.
Railroads Expect to Build goo New
Towns in the Near Future.


Towns in the Near Future.
Railroads centering in Chicago are
booming the territory between Lake
Michigan and the Rocky Mountains, and
it is expected that 100000 will be added
to the population in the next eighteen
months. Pamphlets stating plainly the
resources and advantages of the West are
being distributed throughout Europe. as
well as in our own New England and Al
antic coast States, at the expense OF the
transportation companies. New towns
are being staked out along he lines of all
the railroad extensions. The number OF
new towns that will appear on the maps
of the West within the next year OF
those to which from 600 to 600 new popll-
~ation is to be added already number 173
Before 1902 it is believed this number
will exceed 200. Areas neglected in the
past, while trunk lines were building, are
receiving the closest attention from rail
road land commissioners and traffic man
ayers.
The railroads know that with new set
Elements there. will be increased freight
business, and the carrying of passengers
between local points will add immensely
to their revenues. Where the companies
own the land on which they locate a town
they are giving away free of charge a
site for a public school and another for
a church. The Northwestern road has
10000 acres of unsold land in South Da-
kota and 10000 acres in southwestern
Minnesota. This ranges in value from 81
to $10 per acre. In Wisconsin and Mich
gan, the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul road has between 100000 and 100,
900 acres Of what was once classified as
worthless land, which it claims now is ex-
ceedingly rich and well suited for timothy
hay, celery and sheep raising. The land
sells for about $3.50 an acre. The Santa
lee is booming the southwest and the
opening up of new lines has already re-
suited in the location or development of
eighty new towns, representing an in
crease in population of fully 25,OO0. The
Northwestern Pacific is doing similar
work in the far northwest. 1t has opened
up twenty new towns, with q population
exceeding 10000. The Great Northern
is developing the unsettled portions Of
northern Dakota and is about to open
fifteen new towns, with a population of
5000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
COUP BY CLARK.
Resigns His Seat and Named for the
Vacancy

Vacancy.
W. A. Clark, practically expelled from
the seat given him in the United States
Senate by the Montana Legislature, be-
cause members of that body were bribed
in his support, asks for membership in
the upper house on the appointment of
the Lieutenant Governor Of Montana.
Tuesday Senator Clark announced in the
Senate that he had sent his resignation
to the Governor of Montana. Tuesday
night the coup developed, when Ae was
appointed by Acting Governor SpriGgs to
Fill the vacancy created by his own resig-
nation, which was announced just in time
to prevent the Senate from considering
a motion TO act on the committees report
to expell him.
The appointment by Lieut.. Gov. Sprggs
provides that Mr.. Clark shall serve until
the next Legislature shall elect his sue
cessor. Senator Clark's resignation was
filed early in the day with the Lieutenant
Governor.
Lieut.. Gov. Spriggs has been a parti-
san Of Senator Clark during his candi-
dacy for the senatorship and since. Gov.
Smith, partisan of the DAILY people, left
the State two weeks ago for California
to attend to some mining cases in which
he is attorney. This left the way clear
for the resignation and the appointment
by Spriggs. Smith wired frantically that
he was coming right back, but Spriggs
fastened to reappoint William A. Clark
as United States Senator. That gives
Clark new and valid title to the Senate
seat and completely routs the opposition.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
cu1A's LOSS IN PEOPLE
Decrease of $3.50 Caused by Civil
War-Total Loss 100000.

Decrease of $3.50 Caused by Civil
War-Total Loss 100000.
Gen. j. +. Sanger, in charge of the
census taking in Cuba and Porto Rico,
makes public bulletin giving the total
population of Cuba by provinces, NUM-
cipal districts. cities and wards. A COM
parison of the census taken under Span
ish authority in 1887 with the result OBJ
tanned by the recent count discloses
loss in the twelve years of $3.50, attrib-
utable to the recent civil war and the re-
concentration policy accompanying it.
These figures, however, express only
part of the loss from this cause and the
direct and Indirect losses hy the war and
Recommendation policy are estimated at
100000
The urban population of all cities OF
more than 1000 inhabitants numbers
741,213. or nearly one-half the entire
population. The urban population Of
cities of 5000 or more inhabitants
amounts to $4,000. Il proportion Of 80 2
per cent Of the total population Ninety
six Cuban cities have population in ex-
cess Of 900 inhabitants. in sixteen af
which the number of inhabitants is $. 600
or more, five having Il population IN ex.
cess Of 5000. and one tlIavanal pop
ulation of 2335.9S1.
The following cities have population
above 10000: Santiago, 1900: Matan
zas, 36,314; Cienfuegos. 3O.03S; Porto
Principe, -. 102: Cardenas, II $40; Man
camilla. 14.464; Guanabacoa, 13.ge5.
Santa Clara. 1873; Sagua la Grande
12,r2S: Sancti Spiritus, 1906; Repia'
III 1863; Trinidad. II 100.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24

as lively and as gamey fish as man
could wish to toy with. A pound-and-a-
half bass in these waters at the end of
100 yards of silk line on wisp of split
bamboo rod will make you think you are
fighting a wildcat.
The big -Four" among congressional
fishermen are Senator Frye Of Maine, the
president pro tempore of the Senate; Sen
ator Davis of Minnesota, Senator Gear of
Iowa and Senator Quay of Pennsylvania.
What they don't know about fishing is
not worth learning, and what they have
not told about fishing is not worth hear
ing. OF course, each one thinks his par
ticular kind of fishing is superior to all
others. and is loyal to his native streams,
but all will go far atield in search Of
sport.
Senator Frye is probably the most
consistent sportsman of the quartet. He
goes into camp in the Maine woods every
summer wears flannel shirt, eats bacon
and is glad to get it, and lives the life of
a woodsman. OF course, he comes back
to Washington all the better for it. He
can cast fly with the best of them.
A Skillfu1 Fisherman.
Senator Cushman X. Davis of Mime
sofa is an ardent angler. Let anybody
suggest fishing trip and he will drop
his cares as school boy drops his books
to go a-swimmng. Treaties and conven-
tons are forgotten by the head of the
committee on foreign relations, for the
time, and he is all Impotence to yet a
line. Senator Davis is as skillful as he
is earnest, when fishing. He has had
~reat experience in the lakes Of Mime
sofa, which abounds in game fish. Wheth-
er it is the agile trout which rises to a
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
Odds and Ends

Gen. silas NJ. Bai ,n!3 CG en-
stood by Gen. Grant in , inF IA.
Of 1880. died at Uniont0Wn - &
Mate John Hayes Of :. the New u
in the Federal court a,ouIted II
y i, ricted Of having assa', tss ri,
: negro named Murrill' .o,l,l.a'nr, ~,
& their entry into b de1 b. 4
Welsh regiment was nesu 10 hazel
mental boat, which seet ;.oted By 4
on the hard fare necesslf''s'
paign. min Harrison
cleveland ss,i,ul q and Richard y ol fhs pei
suggested as members 80 % provided
hoard a. Of arbitration AZ =
The Hague treaties o.d raj
Secretary Hay and axi1endips
have signed a treaty !, next next, The
ti%e allowed for eze a,r
Pauncefote 6afiai
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Ing there. The old guide pooh-pooneo
the idea. No one had ever thought Q,
fishing there. But the Senator INSISTED
on trying, and within an hour or two
had caught thirty magnificent bass: 90
they called it Gears Hole, and : IS nsnea
every day in the season when there are
guests at the club house.
There promises to be an expansion ~
the senatorial big Four" into a big
Five" Senator Foraker of Ohio Is reac a,
inc out after some of the piscatoriai
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24

the blue waters of the famous Virginia
stream force their way around the noun
tain's base and mingle with the Potomac
is the beginning Of twice hundred miles
of noble fishing. There are deep pools
and shadows; smiling stretches of still
water and tumbling acres of eddy and
whirlpool, beset with boulders and all
teeming with bass. The bass of the Po-
tomac and the Shenandoah are as crafty,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24

rod and gun club which the Senator
visits. One day he was being rowed up
the river and had tried all the fishing
holes with Indifferent success. He di-
rected the guide to row him to certain
place which he spied, aud after sounding
the water, observing the lay Of the land,
the character of the bottom and the drift
of the current, said there was good fish
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24

Zinc Company's property at .Iopiin. AIo
a day or two ago. which ranks as ono ~
the handsomest specimens ever m;ncd
there, weighs an even ton. Ii is princi.
pally of.zine ore. prettily trimmed in cal
cite. pink spar and cubes of Salena.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
WIFE KILLED BY ACCIDENT.
Husband Shoots at Rat and the Full
Charge Hits Her,

Representative Simon w. Cramer
and his wife, at Paulding, Ohio, were at
tempting to dislodge rat from pile of
debris, Mrs. Cramer being on the oppo-
site side of woodshed from Mr.. Cramer,
who had IL loaded shotgun in his hand.
Mr.. Cramer, thinking he had seen the
rat, fired, the charge striking Mrs. Graz
mer full in the face, death resulting short
~ afterward The coroner's verdict was
that death resulted from accidental shoot
ing Mrs. Cramer was GO years old.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
Legal Light Beaten to Dea til.

Prof. Roy Wilson White. an instructor
of law in the University of Pennsylvania,
was beaten to death on the street in
West Philadelphia. Three suspected nc
groes are under arrest.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
sMAsH-UP ON THE TREsTLE f.
Four Injured in Collision on Nashville
and Knoxville Railroad.

A bad wreck occurred near Gordons-
vile, Tenn, when a fast train on the
Nashville and Knoxville collided with a
construction train on Lick's Trestle.
-Four men were seriously injured. The
passenger train had the right of way.
and, rounding curve to the trestle,
crashed into the construction train.
Neither engineer knew of the approach
of the other. The engine, mail and ex-
press cars telescoped. A number of pas
sengers sustained injuries of serious
character.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
WITH FLY AND BAIT.
STATESMEN WHO ARE DISCIPLES
or lZAAk WALTON.
Frye, Davis Gear and Quay Are Never
So Happy as When They Drop Their
Dignity and Take to the Woods
Representatives Who Fish.
Washington correspondence:

HERE are more
game fish within a
few hours ride Of
Washington, proba-
bly,, than any other
large city in the
East. Two hours
run in a parlor car
brings one to the
home Of the vicious,
courageous, small
mouth black bass Of
the Shenandoah and
the Potomac. Where
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Two Killed and Seven Hurt.

Two men were killed and seven injur-
cd, three fatally, ly the explosion of the
boiler OF the locomotive attached to south
bound passenger train No. II on the Hi
nois Central Railroad af Dubois, Ill
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
Contests ON the diamond.
In the American League the standing
Moves to Oust CLARK.

Gov. r. Is. Smith of Montana. who
had just returned from California. an
nounees that he had decided TO disregard
Lieut.. Gov. Spriggs' appointment of SEN
ator Clark to the vacancy created by that
gentleman's resignation, and that he has
himself appointed Maj. Martin Magin-
mis- of Helena to the vacancy. Maj. Ma
ginnis wired his acceptance.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
Lone Man Robs a Hotel.

In the presence of clerks and guests Of
the Coates Hotel in Kansas City. Mo,
a lone robber seized strong box con-
tanning 81 500 in jewels and money. he'd
all at bay with Il revolver, mounted a
horse and escaped.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
Nebraska Ranchman Slain.

Alois Standemyer, Il ranchman, was
murdered and his body left lying on the
plains ten miles from Harrison, Neb. He
was an extensive cattleman and had gone
out to look after his stock. There is no
clew TO his slayers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
Mafekin~ Is Relieve j.

British troops are announced to have
arrived at Mafeking and compelled the
Beers to raise the siege. London is wild
with joy
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
St. Louis Strikers Enioined.

At ST. I.onis Judge Elmer 3. Adams of
the United States District Court issued
Il temporary writ. of injunction restrain
ing strike leaders and ali other persons
from interfering in any manner with the
running of mail cars over the street car
lines of the city
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24
Mnrdercrs Sentenced to Death.

John Mooney and Frank Friday, the
latter desperate. thought to be wanted
in Chicago, where he formerly lived, were
sentenced at Wheeling. w. Va, to be
hanged July Is for having killed James
Heryey