The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-12-20


in having such a man at Washington.
A Contest for Esch's Seat.
There was some furry over the I'll.
NOR that Senator McGillivray would
contest Mr. Esch's seat in congress.
but there is nothing in it. In a let
ter written by the senator and pub,
lished in the Milwaukee Sentinel I'm.
der date of Dec. & he makes personal
denial of the report and states that he
will not be q candidate.
A member of congress becomes more
serviceable to his district and to his
state the longer he is permitted to re-
main, conditioned of course on his
right temper. This is a self-evident
fact, and yet our state as well as other
Mr.. Esch is fearless man, one of
the best speakers in the state and re-
garded as very likely young Ger
man in public life. Mr.. McGillivray
is a canny Scotchman, a factor in
whatever company he finds himself.
He looks like Pettigrew of South Da-
kota. The Wisconsin senator is strong
on the common people" and if he ever
gets to Washington, the Congressional
Record will TEEN with his personality.
Owns 100000 Acres of Wisconsin.
The new Gates county organization
is settled. certainly for the present,
and those interested in it are very san
guine AS a matter of fact, every one
may be sanguine about northern Wis
cCnsin, though there is great difference
in soil in the various portions. There
is good land in all our counties, and it
has so often happened that what was
adjudged worthless soil, developed into
good land that one must speak eau
tiously. But those trained to the sub
ject know that great differences exist.
Mr. Gates. for whom the new county
in northern Chippewa is named, owns
one-half of Gates county, or about
100000 acres. His total holdings in
Gates, Chippewa, Clark, Price, Taylor
and Sawyer counties amount to 100000
acres, and he values the property at
about $4O00,00O.
This is better than S. an acre He
began buying fifteen years ago at 80
cents an acre
Mr.. Gates says: Seventeen years
ago l shipped the first carload of cat
tie out Of Clark county. During the
past year the shipments amounted to
coo carloads. l predict that during the
next year 600 carloads of live stock
will be shipped out of Chippewa and
Gates counties"
Fifty Cities with Over 100 Phones.
Telephones have come into such COM
mon use that we forget when-only
a few years ago-we were forced to
put on overcoat and overshoes and
walk half and hour to ask the Jones
into tea The telephone, like other ia
| cilities, enables men to do more work
multiplies the output Of brain, hand,
social and moral Improvement. 1t is
said there are now 10000 users in Wis
consin in cities and on the rural
routes. There are about fifty cities
which have over 100 exchanges each.
Paying Doctors by the Year.
In some cities families are club
bling together and paying a doctor an
| annual lump sum to keep them well.
| There is much of this sort of thing
done in fraternal societies. l asked
one of our physicians what he thought
of the idea. He said it is done in log
ging and mining camps successfully,
where often the company pays the
bill. One reports the colony physi-
clan paid $1,000 a year, which is more
than many young doctors earn.
"One trouble would be that the doctor
is compelled to visit many places in
a day, and sometimes to stay for a
Icing time at one place, would not be
available, and another physician be
called in. Doctors, like other people,
are partial and sometimes negligent
Moreover, this is a day of specialties;
good physicians are not competent to
deal with many special complaints.
People have their likes and dislikes;
especially women have a way of get
ting up criticism of doctors. Some
families pay certain sum, but the
plan is not often a success. If the fam
lily keeps we'll the head of it feels that
somehow he has been swindled, and ii
there is a good deal of sickness, the doc
tor thinks lie is being underpaid and
does not go to the house with much
eagerness. OF course, such an arrange.
ment, covering period of years, would
equalize ITSELF
However, this is a day Of co-opera
ton, and the plan may take shape il
the future.
ORLANDO BURNETT.
His Tongue Was Safe,
A little 3-year-old of Newton has