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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31
Senator Spooner as . Practical legis-
Istor Of the Best Type.

In congress, as everywhere, the ten
oency is toward specialization. Sem
ators take up one line or another, be-
come as proficient as possible in that,
and give very little attention to other
subjects. Mr.. Spooner has never been
a specialist. He has carefully avoid
ed identifying himself with any par
tIcuar topic or question. He is an
"all-around" man. Everything OF i'm
portance is his speciality. He Is so
willing to work. so eager to investl-
gate, so tireless and so alert, and his
sincerity aud judgment are so high
ly valued, that all the specialists con-
suit him. He is IA sort of consultation
doctor for all the legislative practi-
TONERS. 1t does not matter what it
ls,-Cuba, the Philippines, Porto Ri
co, our colonial policy in general, the
Isthmian canal, war tax reduction,
finance, the taritf,-every chairman
OF committee who has an important
measure to take in on the floor seeks
the advice of the Senator from Wis
consin before doing so, AS "A lawyer
and maker of laws. as n watchdog
against the furtive slipping in of
blunders, as a suggester of stronger
aud better methods, as n deviser of
practical schemes which will meet
existing conditions in the senate and
the country, he is withou: peer in
public life. The natural result, --des-
pite himself and not ut all through
his seeking,--is that his finger is felt
in nearly every legislative pie. His
impress is more or less upon every
policy, every great act. Sometimes
his work is known to the country, as
in his happy solution of the lstlmian
canal problem, but oftener it is not.
He cares not " no gets the credit, so
writer could name half dozen i'm
porta mt provisions Of law which were
placed upon the scroll by Spooner,
not one Of which was he ever known,
outside the senate chamber, to have
had any connection with.-Walter
Wellman, in the American Monthly
Review of Reviews for August.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31
A Commend able Attitude.

Correspondence of the Chicago Rec
ord Herald: Senator Spooner has
been invited by Attorney General
Knox to accompany the representa-
tive of the department of justice to
Paris for the purpose OF inspecting
the title of the Panama Canal com
pany, but Mr.. Spooner has not yet
determined whether to go or not. If
he does it will not be for the money
the commission will pay him. He
says he will not accept IA cent from
the government for amy work done
aside from his duties as senator, At
the same time he would like to make
the trip for the pleasure he could de-
rive from it and the rest of the ocean
trip. But he feels IA delicacy about
passing Judgment upon the validity
of the title of the Panama company
when as United States senator he
would later have to pass upon his
own act.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31
PHIL ALLEN FOR ASSEMBLY


Dodgeville Chronicle: MANY Re-
publicans Of this town suggest the
name Of one Of the most worthy, hon
est, capable, sound to the core men
and his name is Phil Allen, Jr., OF
Mineral Point, for assemblyman from
this county"
While Mr.. Allen nor the Repub-
licans Of Mineral Point are ask
ing for this nomination, both he
and they appreciate the Kindness
of the suggestion. IF selected to
represent the county in the legisla-
ture. he could be implicitly relied up
on to stand for redemption Of party
pledges, for the right on all propo'
sitions, and in support of Senator
Spooner's reelection, il he desires II.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

ernor down. AS for the senatorship
he is personally indifferent about II.
NY prediction is that he will neither
crawl after it nor run away from II.
The statement that Mr.. Spooner
twill not run away from the senn-
torship my fairly be interpreted
that he is willing to accept It, The
remark that "he will not crawl alter
it" is superhuous. There is no neces-
sitv for him TO crawl or do anything
unbecoming his dignity.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31
a Description of LsFollettr

Two Rivers Chronicle, (dem.:) He
may be couceited, offensive, otlicious,
obstreperous aud pugnacions but the
fight the Greasers have been making
against him is not on account of any
of these personal objections, either
in its inception in the lobby at Mad
ison or in its eleventh floor strategi
cal development, but wholly on ac-
count of his advocacy of taX-reform
which, il carried out, would make the
corporations who-have been paying
the expenses of the campaign against
him, pay their equitable share of the
taxes OF the state.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31
REAL ESTATE
Enquire of Fielder & Fielder, Attorneys }


One dwelling one block west of st.
Paurs church, containing s rooms
and good cistern and well. This
property is especially adapted to
persons Of moderate means.
A fine dwelling one block north of
St. Mary's church, has six rooms with
kitchen. This property is among
the best in the city for comfortable
home.
A small house on Hoard St, con-
veniently situated a desirable dwell
ing for small family.
A fine new two story dwelling with
hal. acre lot; house has seven rooms,
a furnace and good cellar. For sale
cheap.
A two story dwelling with cistern
and two lots in the west part Of city.
Can be bought cheap. Inquire for
full particulars.
A small cottage with four rooms
cistern, good barn and an acre of
land Price low; terms to suit pur-
chas er.
A splendid bargain; 3l5 acres, 6
miles south of Mineral Point. finely
improved, good location. Can sell
this cheap if taken at once.
a small cottage in south part of
city containing four rooms with a
good cisteTn. Can be bought cheap,
Three choice building lots near high
school. Three lots Will he sold sep
erately or together.
Dwelling with % acres Of ground
with large cistern and good barn. >
blocks west of st. Paul's church. This
property is in excellent repair. and
| can be purchased at a moderate figure
a line new two story house with six
rooms, "A large cisterr ond a new
barn in the southern part of the city.
rms house can be bought for a rea-
sonable figure.
A very desirable building lot one
block north of central main street
This is one of the best locations in the
city FOR home.
The Hosking residence. one block
north OF Episcopal church.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31
Barded Wire Fences.

If you have barbed wire fence OH
your farm you should keep Coles
Veterinary Carbolisalve in your sta
bles. 1t is the best remedy known
and the only one that cures without
scars and always renews the hair in
its original color. Your money back
if it ails. In zoe and $l.00 cans. Sold
by ali druggists
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31
Illinois Central Through to Florida.

Beginning Monday. Jan. 6, 1902, the
Illinois Central will run Il through
sleeping car betwtru Chicago and
Jacksonville, via. Nashville. Chatta.
noga and Atlanta. 1t will leave Chi
cago daily $40 p. III. and arrive at
jacksonville the second morning
over the celebrated Dixie Flyer
of its all-the-year around Chicago
and Nashville sleeping-car line.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

For SALE-.LHrgr house and lot
in hes, residence part OF city. Size
Of lot, SOxIGO fl. House has s rooms
closets aud pantry. New barn lSx26
CT. posts, well with 80 feet Of water
cistern. wood hous", some fruit trees
A very desirable home at reasonable
price. For terms and price see
JOHN CURNOw
or j. Il. REYNOLDS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31
Do You Want A Bargain?

To make room for Champion Har-
vesting machinery, | will make bot
tom prices on the celebrated Balm,
Mandt or Clinton wagons or farm
machinery for ten days. Call and
see the best line of buggies in the
city. 20tf FRED l.. CORK.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

Two proposed amendments TO the
constitution of Wisconsin will come
before the voters for approval or re-
lection at the general election next
November. One of them is the anti
pass amendment, prohibiting politi-
cal of,iceholders and candidates for
political offices from the receipt oi
free passes on railroads, and provid-
ing that forfeiture of office shall be
the penalty for iufraction of the pro-
hibitiou, The other proposed amend
ment upon which voters will be call
ed to pass Judgment will, If II re-
ceives n majority of votes, give the
legislature the power to enact gen
eral law for the creation OF banks and
the regulation ana supervision of the
banking business, provided that the
votes OF two-thirds of all the menu
bers elected 70 each house be in favor
Of such law. Under the constitu-
tional provision at present in force
no banking law can become opera
tive without having secured the APP
prevail of the majority Of voters at a
state election.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

/ have n number of choice farms
for SALE in Iowa and Lafayette coun-
ties. You have readthis, now see me.
and will show you the land. They
are money makers. Long time and
low rate of interest. +. T.. DAWSON.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

When you awake in the morning
feeling like the end of a misspent
life. your mouth full Of fire and your
soul full of regrets, take Rocky
Mountain Tea. Great medicine
Eastman d. Meserole.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31
spoonER, spooMER, spooHER.

FoS"I"'
Having misused the name and
fame of Senator John &. Spooner
without effect to defeat LaFollette's
denomination, and, by their conduct,
provoked a less satisfactory endorse
ment of the Senator by the state con
vention than he otherwise would
almost surely have had, the same
tax lodging, platform repudiating
aggregation OF discredited political
manipulators, are now further mis-
using Spooner's name for the purpose
preventing the carrying out OF the
policies to which they are opposed,
and 10 which the party of this state
is committed by rs positive declara-
tions as ever were made by n state
convention. The present plan is to
secure the nomination for members
of the legislature of men who can be
depended on To vote against the pro-
posed measures, and thus make bar
rem the victory of the people In Sc
curing LnFollette'S denomination
Their method is to present for nomi-
nation men known to be antagonlstic
to the governor and urging that they
are r hdblc Spooney men, while cast
ing doubt upon other candidates
strongly favorable to Spooners re-
election, but also positively for the
state poiici~s udc0cotcd By the gor-
erHor, If they were not more intent
laws for taxation equalization and
primary elections than upon Mr.
Spooner's reelection, they would ac-
quiesce In the election to the legisla-
ture of any honorable man pledged
to support tn" Senator's return, and
thus avoid the possibility of es-
trar ging rom him some who
might be aggravated by their de.
termined efforts in his name to null
lily the platform in respects they
deem equally as vital as Spooner's
reelection.
There is no reasonable ground to
doubt that the republicans Of this
senate aud assembly district desire
the return of Mr.. Spooner to the L. $
senate, and the nominees for state
senator and assemhlyman will al
most surely be pledged to vote for
his reelection il he shall express a
willingness to accept it. But it is
equally sure that the republicans
of this county aud district are
also highly DESTROYS that Governor
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efforts to secure more equitable tax
alton and better nomination meth
od. and nonins.s for st,tc senotor
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h""E win 'hat view. with TINS Po-
sitlou senator Spoouer can find no
fault Indeed there are evidences
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go,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

To rent, good house with five
rooms and cistern, in southern part
of city, for $3.50 "a month. Inquire OF
JOHN Il. WALLIS, Phone 81.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31
One Cottage For Sale.

Just south OF Moses M. StrOng's
property, convenient TO town, church
and school. One story. For price
and terms see J. Il. REYNOLDS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

Don't be persuaded into taking
something said to be lust as good"
AS Madison Medicine Cos. Rocky
Mountain Tea. There is nothing lik e
it, 80 cents. Eastman q Meserole.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

Cut this out and take it to WV
ian's Pharmacy and get box OF
ChambeIlain's Stomach d Liver tab
lets. The best physic. They also cor
rect disorders Of the stomach. Price
% cents.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, June 4, 1907.
T. G. Ludden, Se'cy, Mineral Point:
Dear Sir-Yours Of Sd, to hand.
In answer can say this for Mr.. Geo.
d. Gould: He has started our horses
and judged our show horses. He gave
entire satisfaction in every respect.
There were no kicks coming from
drivers, as they all tell me that he is
one of the fairest men starting horses;
has no pets: uses them all alike. In
the show ring, he gave the same sat
isfaction, and heard 20 complaints
from any one. | have him hired for
this year He has big voice, and is
a gentleman. If you secure his SER
vices YOU Will never regret it, as
| cannot recommend him too highly.
Yours truly, G. M. Clark,
Secretary Henry County Agricultural
Society.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

The Paint
Wonder.
Fire, Rust, Rot, Alkali,
Acid, Worm, Insect,
Barnacle and
Element
Proof.

S. =. Burgess Chairman Building
committee Board of Education, Ar
kansas City, Kansas, writes:
Roofing on our school buildings
painted with Shearer's Pyro Paint
fourteen years ago-both tin and
and are still in good conditiHa.
Neither leaks nor rust have developed
since they were painted with Pyro-
previous to which they were so leaky
as to be considered beyond the reach
of repair. No one makes a mistake
when using this paint.
II. II. White (Supt. Portsmouth,
Va, Gas Co. writes;
have thoroughly tested Pyro on
service pipe, retorts, holders, boiler
fronts, stacks, etc. 1t is just what
gas men have long looked for and
more than sustains the claims made
for it,
We are authorized 10y j MILFORD
Peters. sole owner, to sell this paint
under his guarantee. On wood, metal
and paper roofs he gives guarantee
for ten years; on any other roof he
guarantees it to last three times as
long rs any other paint. Give it a
trial. One to five gal, Toe. per gal;
80 gal. or one Dbl. 60c. 3 bbls. or
more SOC per gal Write for circulars
giving testimonials. Address all cor
respondence To
CROFT Il SPOONEk ,
Mineral Point, Wis,
Agents for state of Wisconsin.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31
RACES AT THE FAIR.
George ID. Gould of Toledo. Ohio,
Engaged for Starting Judge.

Mr.. George D. Gould of Toledo,
has been engaged as starting Judge,
and as judge of horses in the show
classes. The following letters were
received by Secretary Ludden, in
response to his inquiries:
Hillside, Mich. June /. 1902.
f. c. Ludden, Sec'y, Mineral Point:
Dear Sir-In reply to your inquiry
of June Sd, would state that Mr..
George D. Gould of Toledo, Ohio,
started our races in 1898, 1899, and
1901, with general satisfaction to the
horsemen and ourselves.
Mr.. Gould has a good voice and
succeeds in getting the fields OF start
ers we'll together and going squarely,
before giving the word to go. He
has always been complimented by the
judges in the stand and the clerk of
the course for his fairness TO all,
as starter. Our former clerk is now
president of the society, and says
that we cannot do better than TO Sc
cure Mr.. Gould for our next meeting.
My acquaintance with him outside of
his official work is limited, but from
past experience if he engages to do
your work | think you can depend
upon him.
Yours respectfully,
G. w. Terwilliger,
Sec'y Hillsdale Fair
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

a very desirable building lot one
block north of central main street
This is one of the best locations in the
city FOR home.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

The Hosking residence, one block
north OF Episcopal church.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

One dwelling one block west of st.
Paups church, containing s rooms
and good cistern and we'll. This
property is especially adapted to
persons Of moderate means.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-07-31

S. p. Burgess Chairman Buildin
committee Board of Education, Al
kansas City, Kansas, writes:
Evening star., 1902-01-18
REMARKABLE FEATS
A Wonderful Age Makes Possible
Marvellous Structures.
PROCESS OF FREEZING QUICKSAND
A Railway Bridge Replaced With
out Stopping Traffic.
RECENT ENGINEER RING
r E CENT ENGIN Rim G

CopyIioht, 1902, by F. ". Sknner)
Written TOT The Evening Star by Frank W. SKIN
ner, C. E..
About the newest of all great engineer
Ing structures is, to most people. the COM
mOnest, the modern railroad bridge. and it
is hard to realize that nothing at all like it,
even for highway purposes, existed fifty
years ago. Now almost every one of those
which were earliest built has been found in
adequate by the enormous increase of traf-
fc and the weight of locomotives. and has
been replaced by steel. Each span is made
according to drawings, with hundreds of
beams, girders. bars, rods and columns
riveted and forged and bored in distant
shops. but never fitted together until they
arrive by dozens of carloads at the site,
and are quickly assembled to make a sleu-
der, self-suppOrting framework with the
rigid pieces which weigh thousands of
pounds fitted accurately and swiftly In
place like the mechanism of watch. TE.s
is hard enough to do across a Storm-Swept
bay, over an almost bottomless river where
there Is a fierce current or high tides or
where, like the Niagara gorge, the height
is so great that no support can be built up
from the bottom, and the span has to sup
port itself during construction; but all these
difficulties are small to the bridge builder
compared to the requirement, often met,
that an old bridge of perhaps many spans
must be replaced by a new one, in exactly
the same place, of the same dimensions and
supported on the very same piers, without
interrupting appreciably the almost con-
stant traffic which demands passage nearly
every hour In the twentyfour for long
freight trains or rushing expresses.
Such was the case with the Florence
Evening star., 1902-01-18

inclosing the shaft and sunk vertically to
rock by a water Jet and steam hammer.
An eight-inch pipe, closed at the bottom,
was lowered inside each ten-inch pipe and
the latter Withdrawn. A one and one-haif-
inch pipe open at the bottom, was lowered
inside each eight-inch pipe, reaching nearly
to is bottom and extending through its cap
on top. The tops Of the inner pipes were
connected to pressure pipe, through which
brine from the refrigerating machine was
pumped at temperature of about II de-
grees Fahrenheit, and rising through the
eight-inch pipes, escaped from their tops
into connecting horizontal pipe, which
served as the suction main Of the circula-
ting pump. The cold brine thus moved
around and around the circuit, taking about
twenty-nve minutes for each trip. and ris-
ing in that time about one degree in tenn
perature. AS 1t absorbed the heat from the
quicksand and water a thin coating of ice
pipes and gradually increased in thickness.
until In ten days those on adjacent pipes
united ana formed q sohd wall Of frozen
Evening star., 1902-01-18

the excavation of over 2SO, 900, 600 cubic
yards of earth which had to be dug up,
lifted out and piled in great hills, often
hundreds of feet away from the edge Of the
canal bank AS the average price paid for
excavating, lifting and removing the earth
was about one cent a cubic foot, only
fraction of what is usually paid for ordi-
nary quantities of excavation, the contrac-
tors were obliged to invent cheap methods,
and the great. principle of success was
found to be in handling the earth in large
quantities, and keeping 1t continuously
moving. Most of 1t was dug by steam
shovels working in the bottom Of the trench,
which could scoop up a wagon load at once,
and do it on an average of once a minute
or oftener all day long. In one place the
steam shovel worked back and forth across
the canal cutting a section ten feet wide
and fourteen feet deep at each trip. Each
bucketful of a ton or more of hard, sticky
clay was dumped by the shovel into the
hopper of a grinding machine which de-
livered 1t on top of an endless, wide rubber
belt extended across the bottom of the
canal. A second belt reached up to the top
of the slope and in turn overlapped the end
of the third, which was carried along the
floor of a 200foot bridge elevated thirty
feet above the ground rolling towers at
each end Ea ch of the three belts was sup
ported on rollers followed a little in the
center, like dice boxes, which made 1t suf-
fciently concave to retain the clay, like
trough. They were driven at a speed of
about seven feet per second and ceaselessIy
the canal slope, on top of the bridge and
over 1t to variable point, where a diagonal
scraper was set across it and pushed the
load off to fall through the bridge floor and
pile up on the ground underneath. When
the steam shovel completed a cut across the
canal which perhaps required two days,
it's tracks, the belts and the bridge were
all moved ten feet ahead, and the process
was kept up continuously. Many Of the
chunks of clay were as large as a mans
head, and 1t vas amusing to watch them
ride quietly along until they commenced
the ascent of the steep bank, and then be-
gin to roll and tumble and start down with
an evident determination not to go up that
slope under any circumstances. They
would hurry and scramble as fast as possi-
bic, but it was not steep enough for them
to fall quite as fast the belt travelled
and 1t would keep picking them up again
and again, each time lifting them little
higher before they would succeed in start
ing down, until at last they were landed on
the level belt on top.
Freezing the Sand.
The freezing is accomplished by the use
Of the modern refrigerating machine. A
shaft about Is feet square and 100 feet deep
was sunk in this manner through water
and quicksand to solid rock at Iron Noun
tain. Mich, few years ago. Twenty-seven
ten-inch iron pipes were arranged about
three feet apart on the sides of a rectangle
Evening star., 1902-01-18
TUNNEL SECTION READY TO LAUncH.

bridge across the Tennessee river in Ala
bama- There were twelve spans of about
40 feet each, which carried a singie-trac ok
railroad on top and highway between the
trusses. The old wooden spans could not
even support the new steel one during erec-
tion, although the masonry piers had am
pie strength Wooden towers were built on
the top edges of the old bridge, outside the
track, above two adjacent piers. Above
these towers, nearly twenty-five feet over
the track, a complete new temporary span
Of wood and iron as long as the longest
span Of the old bridge was built. A new,
permanent span was assembled together,
suspended from the under side of II, clear
Of the trains which passed uninterruptedly
through it and under the temporary span.
When IL was finished and track laid on
top Of 1t the under side was lashed to the
upper side of the old span, and 1t was ad-
ditionally suspended from the overhead
temporary span by four vertical 3ha-inch
steel screw rods. about thirty feet long, one
p each corner, which had nuts bearing on
seD Of the temporary span. A suitable in