Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-11-24


Wash, without finding traces of him
Experienced wOodsmen are expected
to keep up the search for 8 or 10 days
more.
! United States Commissioner of I'M
migration Sargent has arrived at San
Francisco. His visit, he said, was
largely for the purpose of becoming
acquainted with the workings of the
service in the west and with officials.
The government is striving to
strengthen the patrol on the Canadian
border to keep out Chinese.
Silas Mcintosh, who is in Jail at
Jackson, KY, for contempt of court in
refusing to answer questions put bv
the grand jury in it's investigation of
the assassination of Marshal James
Cockrell, has consented to tell all he
knows. Some startling disclosures
are expected.
The officers of the United States
steamship Ranger witnessed the
eruption of Mount Santa Maria, which
caused great loss of life and destruc-
ton at Guatemala. From the shin
great clouds of smoke and pillars or
fire could be seen shooting from +bn
volcano, and rivers of lava poured
down it's steep sides.
The hearing of the custer proceed
Ing OF Attorney General Grow of Mis-
souri, against the Continental Tobacco
company was set by the supreme court
Tor Dec 10. The case is pending on
the report Of Special Commissioner
Judge John R. Butler of Milan. to
| which report exceptions have been
filed.
Two lives were lost and ten persons
injured in two grade CROSSING ac-
cldents in Chicago, one at the Western
avenue crossing Of the Chicaeo
burlington & Quincy railroad. in
which one man was killed and ten per-
sons injured, and the other at the
SIxty-tourth street crossing of the
Chicago & Western Indiana, in which
a boy was instantly killed.
The MissOui state board of arbitra-
ton has forced settlement of the
strike at the Buell. wooden mills and
all the men, women and girls who left
the plant three weeks ago will return
TO work The employees gained most
OF their demands. The working dav
is to be reduced from eleven hours to
ten hours.
Physicians report that William
Mason, who is in jail at Ell Paso. Tex.
III connection with alleged insurance
frauds, cannot live unless a rapid
change takes place. He neither moves
nor speaks and never opens his eyes.
Inc physicians say he has either
totally collapsed or is determined to
commit suicide. He has refused To
take food for ten days.
Canada is seeking emigratiOn o.,
American farmers, because the
United States is composed of tenant
farmers" and cit is impossible for
these TO own the land they cultivate. .
Some 25,000,0OO acres are for sale in
ontario, and an American syndicate
Will sell 100000 acres to $4,000
American farmers, with free trans
portation, at So an acre.
Footall scores Michigan. 81. Chi
cago, 0. Minnesota, II; Wisconsin q
Nebraska, 7; Knox, 0. Purdue, 80;
Indiana, 0. Northwestern. -; Be
lott, o. Iowa, 81; WASHINGTON. D. III
lnols, 0; Ohio State, 0. Yale. -.
Princeton, 5. Harvard 16: Dart
mouth, 6. Cornell %; Lafayette O.
Indians, 5; Pennsylvania, 0. BucknelI
Is; Navy, 0. Amherst, %; Columbia
0.
Patrick Bolan, for seven years a.
trusted porter at the Holland house in
| New York, was arrested in a Bowerv
paWnshop, where he was endeavoring
to pledge for $35 a neclzles of pearls
valued at $4,000. The prisoner is said
to have given information which will
lead to the recovery of jewels valued
at $4,000, stolen some time ago from
the apartments of Mrs. w. J. Mathe-
son, wife of wealthy manufacturer.