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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11
Foreign.

King Oscar of Sweden and Crown
Prince Gustav have arrived at
Christiania-
Many noted Irishmen attended the
funeral in Dublin of James Stephens,
eX-leader of Fenians
Gold has been discovered near
Arendal, on the Skager Rack, SO miles
northeast of Christiania.
A London dispatch announces the
death of Sir John Stainer, noted as an
organist and composer.
Surgeons operated on an abscess
under the tongue of M. Waldeck-
Rousseau, the French premier
Famous Temple Hommongi, at
Ikegami, Japan, burned. 1t was
originally erected in the year 275.
Arthur Balfour, it is said, is slated
for premier and elevation to the pc
age if Lord Salisbury grows worse
Emperor William is now inclined to
to the belief that his recent wound at
Bremen woe i7fFicted with an air-r:fle-
1t is reported at st. Petersburg that
Count Leo Tolstoi has been banished
and was escorted over the border at
Wilma.
British ministers are considering
suggestion that the duke of Cornwall
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11
The Solution to the Problem.

On the last night of a series Of
"protracted meetings" in the Metho-
dist church of little New Jersey
village, the visiting evangelist was
making special effort to obtain a
showing of anxious souls, says the
New York Sun. He had preached his
best sermon and reached an emotional
ferVor that he had seldom equaled.
But nobody responded to his invita-
tlon. They sang hymn, and then the
evangelist rose again and called upon
the congregation to "enlist for the
service of the Lord"
battle-scarred, wooden-legged vet
eran who had dropped into the back
seat watched the proceedings with in
terest.
For the third time the perspirine
evangelist rose and said:
rs there no one willing to eahst
IN the Lords army?"
Then response came from the back
seat:
Draft 'em, parson; damn it, draft
EN-"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11
A SENATOR'S HUMOR.
Mr.. Deliver Tells of Rise and Fall Of
His Early Fame.

His Early Fame.
The career of Jonathan Prentiss
Dolliver, the moutain boy who became
a Senator, is described by Cyrus Pat
terson Jones in Success. Of the
Senator's love for humor Mr.. Jones
says:
His wit is one Of the most attractive
of his gifts. He can tell a story with
wonderful effect. His keen sense of
humor would have made him a
comedian if nature had not cast his
other faculties in a more serious
mould. Therefore, his fun crops out
only at times.
When I asked him when and where
he first began to consider himself
famous, he said:
"My first term in Congress gave me
my first sense of exaltation. The
people up in Iowa hills had a little
lake, and they named it after me.
Then a new postoffice was named in
my honor, and a colored woman
named her baby after me. I began TO
think of engaging a niche in some
temple of fame.
"But in my second term I was disil-
lusioned. A climatic disturbance
dried up the lake, free delivery wiped
out the postoffice, and the child died
and I found myself back in the very
place whence l had started"
A few years ago Mr.. Dolliver was
invited to deliver a lecture in St.
Paul and Minneapolis before the
Young Mems Christian Association
Lyceum. In each city the hall was
crowded wherein he spoke, some
fifteen hundred men attending. His
topic was Chances for Young Men"
That" said he to me, twas a
favorite topic with me. I believed in
young men, and liked to talk with
them, knowing fully we'll that if one
can stir them up to energy and ambi-
ton he is doing o grand work in the
world.
well. have not changed my
opinion since the delivery Of that
lecture but, when I got back to Wash.
ington to resume my congressional
duties, a week later. began
to hear from those particular
young men. Letters began to
pour in on me. They came
in punches of two and three; then in
dozens, and finally in basketfuls.
Every st. Paul and Minneapolis young
man who had heard me declare that
this is the young mems age, wrote
that he fully agreed with me-and
asked me to get him government
job"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11
TEXAS NEW WEALTH.
Oil Flow May Hasten the States
Growth.

Oil Flow May Hasten the States
Growth.
The productive oil field discovered
in southeastern Texas is expected to
speed the development OF that part of
the state. The oil region is a marshy,
level prairie, fit only for rice cultiva-
ton, with underlying country rock,
Of recent quarternary formation. Two
years ago A. F. Lucas, with friends
from Pittsburg, began boring for oil,
but without success, on account OF ina
mense beds CT quicksand found in his
way. BY telescoping the pipes let
down as the auger descended he at
length got a fine flow of oil from
depth of about 1900 feet. The first
upfiow, in fact, carried his pipe,
weighing six tons, to height of 800
feet. On January Is the outpour Of
oil was about 1000 barrels an hour
and increasing. Sometimes the column
of oil reaches a height of 600 feet.
The flow is beyond control, but much
Of the oil is saved by turning it into a
natural depression of so acres, while
some 800 men are employed in build
ing leves and eXcavating reservoirs
for temporary storage Tanks will
follow and pipe lines to convey the
oil to the seaside at Beaumont or Sa-
bine Pass. No other oil region in
this country is so near the sea or so
conveniently situated for the export
trade. The oil is light, having a par
affine base and some sulphur, and will
give good percentage of illuminat-
ing oil. Naturally. the discovery at
tracts investors and laborers in great
number A boom is on and leases are
in great demand A petroleum
authority, as quoted by the Engineer
ing and Mining Journal, characterizes
the new field as follows:
Even if the percentage of illumi-
nant should be small the reduced cost
at which it can be brought to the s6I-
face and marketed, as compared with
that of the eastern fields, will give it
special advantages. The best infor-
nation at hand gives the depth Of the
we'll at Beaumont as less than 1000
feet, or about the same as the shall
lowest wells in West Virginia and
southeastern Ohio. The Texas opera
tor will not encounter the rocky for
nations, and to start and complete
well will be matter of a few days,
instead of weeks or months. AS to
the area OF producing territory in JEFF
ferson county absolutely nothing is
known. If one is to judge from the
volume of oil that the initial well was
capable of putting out, it would seem
that vast field existed in that local
ity." The Journal thinks the freedom
OF the Texas oil from dependence
upon railroads will give it great ad.
vantages. ut looks" says our Goa
temporary, very much as If the dis
coyery would give rise to q new situ-
alton in the oil trade"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11


Dlil TO provide for the depositing with
the secretary of state of the annotated
statutes and the statutes Of 1898, and
assigned as his reason for so doing
that there is no good reason why the
measure should become . law "a il
makes no material or necessary
changes III the present statute on that
subject
Chief Clerk w A. NOVEL; Of the as
sembly made report of the condition
of the bills before that. body. showing
that the members viii have to hurry If
they intend TO so home before the mid
die of May. Out of 625 bills intro
duced in the lower house and referred
to committees, after three months
work, 1913, or only 2 short OF 200, are
still in committee These include the
taxation bills, many of the large APP
preparation measures, the senatorial
and congressional apportionment bills
and much other important legislation.
In addition to these 1913 in committee
| 81 bills are now pending before the
| house. The assembly also has 43
| senate bills in committee, and must
dispose Of all that may come from the
upper house from now to the close of
the session. What with amendments.
compromises, substitutes and new bills
from the committees in both houses,
an early adjournment is not probable.
By an Overwhelming majority the as
| sembly voted down Mr. Gilman's
street sprinkling bill. over which
there had been so much debate in the
morning There will be no Sheridan
drive legislation this year as the bills,
| providing for work on that great Wis
consin-Illinois highway, were with
drawn by the author Mr., Stevens,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11
Domestic.
Chicago April wheat, 1880.

Chicago April wheat, 1880.
Lieut.-Com. Jess M. Roper was
suffocated in trying to save the lives
of some of his men in a fire on the
gunboat Petrol at Cavite, Luzon.
Wellesley college was given $780,
e000 by the will of D. w. Hitchcock of
Boston
John Gulick killed his mother and
brother at Kline's Grove, Pa, and
escaped.
An attempt was made to stop the
south African war by injunction IN
New Orleans.
A worlds conference of Seventh
Day Adventists opened at Battle
Greek, Mich.
Charles Hastings, an alleged
sountcrfeiter, was captured near
WEIGH, w. Va.
The definite statement is made that
the Illinois Central will reach ST.
Paul by Sept. 1.
A robber was killed and his COM
panion wounded by the city marshal
Of Gillett, Colo.
Ex-Congressman John B. Gilfillan Of
Minneapolis gave $4,000 to the Min
nesota university.
Police Judge Gordon of Omaha was
suspended on the charges of mall
feasance in office.
Margaret Hossack, an aged widow,
Is on trial at Indianola, Ia, for the
murder of her husband.
The result of the expert investiga-
ton Of the plague cases at San Fran
cisco is made public. Thirty-two
died Of the disease, every case proving
fatal
Leech Lake Indians complain that
lumber men are cutting green timber
on their reservation.
Miss Rose P. Dufrey, aged 10,
deputy postmaster at Parnell Ia, is
charged with embezzling 81 900.
The Minnesota legislature passed a
law providing for the nomination of
candidates by primary election
The people of Rockford, H., and
GAINESVILLE, Wis, cannot agree on
sites for the Carnegie libraries.
Editor Bryan praises Gen. Funston
for his brilliant and daring plot by
which Aguinaldo was captured.
Trolley car between Easton and
Bangor, Pa, rolled down an enbank-
ment, IS passengers being injured.
Joshua Levering, prohibition can
didate for president in 1896. was mar
rled to Helen Woods at Baltimore.
The Society for the Prevention OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11
Spanish-American Islands.

A shipload of emigrants left Porto
Rico for the Hawaiian islands.
The commissary frauds are being
vigorously investigated at Manila.
Thousands of school teachers in the
United States apply for positions in
the Philippines.
Colonel Gonzalez, former insurgent
governor of Manila, has surrendered
to the Americans.
The Cuban constitutional conven-
ton is still unable to agree on the
Plat amendment.
1t is reported at Manila that Presi-
dent Mckinley has invited Aguinaldo
to visit the United States.
The war department is advised by
Macarthur that the Manila com
missary frauds are unimportant.
For the first time in the city's
history there were no cases of
yellow fever in Havana on April /.
Municipal elections are to be held
throughout Cuba June 1. Fifteen
days will be allowed for registration.
The Cuban constitutional cOnven-
ton, by one vote, rejected a motion
to send = commission to Washington
A large sum of prize money will
shortly be ready for distribution
among the officers and crews which
manned the Cuban blockading squad
ron.
The rest of Gonzalez's command
surrendered in northern Mindanao.
Aguinaldo is busy preparing his mani
festo with the help Of MacArthur's
private secretary.
Aguinaldo is preparing a manifesto
asking the insurgents now in the
field to lay down their arms and ac-
cept the sovereignty of the United
States. Peace is to be proclaimed
when this is issued.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11
PEN-AM ERICAN SPORTS.
VIII be Held in a Stadium Seatinu
Twelve Thousand People,

VIII De feio IN Stadium Seating
Twelve Thousand People.
The popular sports Of the Ameri-
cans have been handsomely recog-
nized by the Pan-American exposi-
ton. A stadium, beautiful in design,
with a quarter-mile track and ground
area ample for the requirements of
all the popular events proposed, is
provided. 1t has a seating capacity
Of $4,000. The nature of the sports
planned is varied. Amateur events
OF all kinds will be particularly en-
couraged as representing the most
desirable of athletic competitions.
There will be professional events as
well. College sports will be made a
feature, and intercollegiate events are
being planned. There will be anna.
teur and professional base ball, foot
ball, lawn tennis, Marathon race.
cross country runs, lacrosse, cycling.
basketball, rogue, shooting, CaTedon-
IAN games, gymnastics, military
manoeuvres, turning, cricket. bowl
ing and other sports.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11

small margin. There was no debate
Senator kreutzer introduced a Joint
resolution providing for the adjourn
ment Of the legislature May and
shutting off all business except execu-
dive messages after u o'clock mid
night May ?.
AS was certain to happen the ap-
portionment of the state into as
sembly districts is raising q consider
able ruction. Some time ago the
lower house after fight passed the
bill. 1t was thoroughly unsatisfactory
to the Sheboygan and Portage county
Representatives because those counties
each lost member under it. To-
day the senate returned the bill with
two amendments, one rearrangine
Brown county so that two republican
districts should be made certain; the
other merely providing that in case
any territory were omitted from the
measure it should be attached to the
| contiguous district having the least
| population, etc. The first was killed.
with only 9 votes in its favor, the
; other was concurred in Mr. Keene
made a motion to reconsider the vote
by which the assembly had refused
to concur in the senate bill, 40S, pat
! enting $500 acres of land to C. F.
! Pfster, Louise Vogel and Ephiram
Mariner. He said that in 1866 the
parties mentioned in the bill had
| bought at auction from the Sturgeon
Bay Canal company the lands in ques-
ton which had been granted by The
! federal government, but afterward the
state set up a claim to some of the
lands as included in the swamp land
grant. This claim has not been made
good, and the bill was introduced to
settle the title in favor of those who
had paid for the lands. But Mr.. Cady
argued that if these lands went to
Pfster ct al, the state was the loser
just to that extent. Gen Rusk, while
governor, had absolutely refused t.
convey them to the canal company
After long debate the motion pre-
vailed, At to "a. A letter from Mrs
Benjamin Harrison was read, in which
that lady expressed her appreciation
of the resolutions adapted with refer
ence to the death of her husband
The assembly ordered engrossed the
Evans joint resolution calling for {
constitutional amendment extending
suffrage to women by a vote of 40 tc
33. This action was taken after ar
hours speech by Mr.. Evans and 6
half hours fun by the wags of the
assembly Among the bills killed
were: Thomas, to provide for a
bureau of practical dairy information
and Spratt's, abolishing inspection OF
Illuminating oils.
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Some Endiish Bulls

A wel[known firm of carriers OF
Golden lane, London, now label the
goods they deliver:
II this parcel is not delivered TODAY
please communicate with >,
etc.
This follows the principal of the re-
cent advertisement in a Sydney ma nor.
L. W., of 20 years ago. Write me- At
once IL you are dead or married." of
the Queensland editor, who announced
mat anonymous contributions can.
not De returned unless accompanied
py stamped envelope bearing the
writer's name and address," and of
the stone placed in the middle of
dord IN county Cork, which stated:
"hen this stone is out of sight it is,
unsafe to cross the river
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Political.

Concord, Neb., voted to be governed
by Mrs. Carrie Nation.
City and town elections were held
in a number of states. Carter Harfl-
son was reelected mayor Of Chicago.
Tom L. Johnson, elected mayor OF
Cleveland, is candidate for the
democratic nomination for president.
Tom L. Johnson was elected mayor
of Cleveland, and Toledo reelected
Mayor Sam NJ. Jones of golden rule
fame. Hanna characterized as a lie
the charge that he spent 100000 to
beat Johnson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11

A negro orator was selected by
Michigan university to represent it in
the northern league contest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11

when the Dreamers Wake.
Cora-Was their marriage y enr
prise?
Lena-No; but everybody thinks It
will be.-Smart Set.
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James Brothers Escape.

The act was one which could scarce
ly be expected except from brothers,
for it jeopardized the lives of both
rescuer and rescued. Who were these
two men? That was the question often
asked at the time. 1t was said by
many who pretended to know that the
man who had fallen from his horse
bloody and faint was Frank James and
that the man who had stopped to lift
him back into the saddle was Jesse
James.
The Youngers, in all of the twenty
four years that they have spent be-
hind the walls of the Minnesota peni-
tentlary, have never betrayed their
comrades, and have always refused to
tell who the two lone riders were who
made their escape on that one horse
on that memorable occasion. The
James boys have neither seen fit to
deny that they were the two who
made that escape.
Frank James Story.
Neither have they ever admitted
that they were there, but now Frank
says:
L fought In the confederate army
with the Youngers. We were boys to-
gether. They were brave fellows.
They were true men. There was not
a coward nor a liar among them IF
they promised at any time to meet YOU
at given spot or place on the open
highway or in the brush they were
there, even if gun was sticking ont
every inch of the way.
They might not have been angels
and on Sundays you would perhaps
not have found them sitting up in the
front row, but they were men of their
word and had they been given
chance they might have lived different
lives to what they did. They were
with many crimes of which
they were entirely innocent.
The other day | noticed an article
in the newspapers written by Alfred
Henry Lewis. don't know the fell
low, but he told a story Of an alleged
bank robbery which he claims took
place at Gallatin, Mo. According to
his story, the bank robbed was the
property Of Gov. Dockery, and accord
ng to his story, too, I lost the nomi-
nation for doorkeeper of the Missouri
house Of representatives for the rea-
son that Gov. Dockery was sore at |
ne for robbing his bank.
AS matter of fact, there never |
vas bank robbed at Gallatin that I |
'r any one else ever heard Of A |
rain was held up there one day, and I |
understand the conductor was killed. |
can't give particulars, because [ |
Ildn't happen to be there, but this is
ne incident Mr.. Lewis has mixed me
lp IN and tortured into a bank rob
,ery"
Their Companions Gone.
More than this James would not
ay. From a rolling conversation.
Lowever, it was learned that when
he Youngers come out of prison after
uttlng in quarter of century there
hey will find on the outside scarcely
single one of the old crowd that
vent up and down the line with them
q boyhood days
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11
BAD GANG ALL GONE
NOTED ROBBERS AT LAST MEET
MERITED FATES.
FRANK JAMES SURVIVES
And Two of the Younger Brothers
Linger in Prison-Tneir Possible
Pardon Leads to a Review of the
Desperate Crew to Which They
Belonged

The news from st. Paul, Mimi,
that the Younger brothers are about
to be released from the Minnesota
state prison, where they have spent
the last twenty-four years OF their
lives, has created a sensation in Min
nesota, where they were so well
known in their boyhood days as the
friends and comrades Of the James
boys, Jesse and Frank. Frank James
has for ten years been resident Of
ST. Louis. In that time he has made
hundreds of friends and in all that
time he has refused to say word
about the life that he and the Young
ers and Jesse led for nearly twenty
years.
Recently for the first time he con-
scented to talk for publication. The
news that the Younger brothers were
to be pardoned seemed to give him
great JOY and set his tongue wagging.
In all the twenty-four yeahs of their
incarceration the Youngers have al
ways refused to give the names of the
men who accompanied them Oh their
fearful mission to Mortified, Mimi,
which ended in the killing of several
of their number and capture of others.
Capture of the Robbers.
After the bank robbery at North
field, every man in that town armed
himself with some sort of shooting
iron and set out on horse back and on
foot after the robbers. Not far from
Mortified the gang was surrounded
on all sides and ordered to surrender.
The desperadoes refused and were
fired upon Many Of their number
were killed, but Cole, Jim and Bob
Younger were taken alive. Charlie
Pitts, Bill Caldwell, Clell Miller and
others were slaughtered.
In the midst of the firing a horse
was started out from the brush. 1t
was ridden by two men seated back
to back. One of them guided the horse.
The other with a revolver in each
hand beat off the pursuing party. The
horse went like the wind. The pursu-
ing party followed as fast as possible.
A mile from the place where the
L Jung . uotu USS4l COl dllSu dHl IASl1
comrades shot down the two men on
horse back ran into a farmer who was
driving a pair Of horses along the
road. Jumping from their one horse,
who was now nearly winded, they cut
the traces and straps that held the
farmers team to the wagon and then
each man securing a mount Of his own
rode away from the pursuing party.
Of all the famous crowd that was
first known as QuantrelPs band, then
as the Youngers, and then as the
James boys, only two were left to
freedom after this fearful affair at
Mortified. AS these two rode away
one fell wounded and fainting from
his horse, only to be lifted back into
the saddle and helped along by the
other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11

Madison, April 4.-The Overlook
cigarette bill is dead. The senate
killed it by vote of IA to II. Those
voting against the bill were Senators
Devos, Eaton, Fearne, Gaveney, Green,
Hagenmeister, Harris, Jacobs, Knud-
sen, Miller, Mills, Reynolds, Roerh,
Stebbins, Weed, Willy and Wolff. 1t
was the first measure introduced in
the assembly and was also the first
one passed by that body, but it has
dragged along through the senate
against the most bitter opposition,
until it finally came from the judiciary
committee with the recommendation
that it be passed. The vote yesterday
was disappointing to the friends of
the measure who had expected all
along that it would get through by
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r Madison, April 8.-Gov. La Toilette
sent another veto to the senate. This
time he withheld his approval of the