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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-10-01
(Sept. u TO Oct. 2g)

(Sept. * to Oct. 29)
STATE OF WISCONSIN-CIRCUIT COURT
W FOR bayfield, COUNTY,
y. M. B,ackman, Plaintiff
VS..
Arthur Macy, Defendant
The State of Wisconsin: To said defendant;
You are hereby summoned to appear with.
in twenty days after the service of this sum-
nous, exclusive of the day of service. and de-
fend the above entitled action in the conrt
aforesaid; and in case of your failure so to &c
judgment will be rendered against you accord
ing to the demand of the complaint of which
a.copy is herewith served upon you.
GEORGE B. HUDNALL,
PLAINTIFFS Attorney
p. o. Address: No 23S West 9Th Street,
Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-10-01
TOWN BOARD PROCEEDINGS.

Special meeting of the Board OF
supervisors held at the Town Clerk S
office, Sept 14th, 1903.
Meeting called to order by Super
visor Jerome at s o'clock p. m.
Present-M. Jerome and M. Thore-
son, supervisors
Absent-.F. 7. Yates, chairman.
The following bills were audited
and allowed
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-10-01
MUD SINGING.

The Ashland Press administer
ed a very good rebuke to the
Washburn News and Itemizer
Saturday, for the latter's very
indecent and uncalled for abuse
of District Attorney Mcleod.
The News certainly deserved the
little lecture for having smirched
itself in such a manner. And
while the Press was doing a little
good roasting it might be as well
to call attention to the fact that
the Press was itself guilty of un-
professional tactics in, speaking
of the town board and especially
of Chairman Yates as ''pigmies. }"
There has been no occasion to
speak of either the Chairman of
Washburn Or the District Attor-
ney of the county in an unpleas-
ant personal way. The TIMES
disiikes very much to see the
boys singing mud at one another.
The Merrill Advocate has
issued a Souvenir Edition" that
is work of art. 1t is gotten
up in book form and gives the
history of the new court house
building dedicated for Lincoln
county September 23rd, and
everything pertaining to the new
building. It also deals with in
dividuals and some of the com.
mercial features of the county,
and has some of the finest half
tone views ever put into print.
The Advocate is to be congratu-,
lated upon the excellence of it's
piece of work.
W. F. SCHEI, the Hay ward fire
brand, has placed his paper in
charge of r. G. Peck, and has
moved to Chippewa Falls, where
he has accepted the position OF
city editor of the Herald. The
Hay ward Enterprise, under the
manageme Mt of Mr.. Schei, has
been the most talked of news
paper in Northern Wisconsin.
Mr.. Schei is a first-class news
paper man, and if he could avoid
sensationalism and pyrotechnics
would make himself felt in the
newspaper world.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-10-01

It was moved and seconded that
Mrs, M. Olson be granted 81. 90 per
month assistance. Motion carried.
There being no further business
the board upon motion adjourned.
r. A. Herring.
Town Clerk.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-10-01

GENERAL FUND.
Name Purpose Amount
Fred II. Yates chairman . $25 90
Nose Jerome supervisor IL &c
Mike Thoreson - 16 66
A Herring clerk. 81 so
q Weseott chief of policee. So 90
Gideon Chauyin natrOlman 80 90
Andrew Johnson :. ...... 80 90
Andrew Lefd ianitor II SO
Beausoliel fire warden, and pound.
master. .................. 20 w
M Thoreson, labor Ashland Jet and
Benoit-fare ................... IL %
Olson sprinkling street crossings 20 90
Erick Olson for right Of way through
his land. Observation-Disclosures. lO w
John Hanson flush. ng sewers - S 90
A Herring, postage, express etc.. IS
Bayfield, County Bank, int hydrant
rental orders ........... ........., 10I ~
Washburn L & Co lights .... AIS 60
Barney Dunn blowing fire whistles. Zoo
L III Lien services as assessor ........ 10 90
Larson special police. ........... w
VIM Downs IS Sc " 90
HIGHWAY FUND.
Mike Larson overseer of highways $32 50
Knute Elleson road work dynimite
plant and city ........... .......... u 10
Hans Swanby road work to dyuimite
plant aud city,. ......... 7SS
Gilbert Olson road work to dynimite
plant and city ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. "A w
Clarence Larson road work dyniIaite
plant and city ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SO
Ole Hove road work to dynimite plant
and CITY,. w
Olson road work to dynsmite
plant and city,. 81 w
Freeberg road work dynimite plant
and City ........ .................. "a w
Ole Holgren road work to dynimite
and city OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10
Jas Casperson road work 90 dynimite
ana city ............ ........... Il w
o Nicholson road work to dynimite 10 25
Fred Rickhoff overseerer ........... 81 80
Stems Mosinack, work w and Ash road 20 90
John Musolf . 20 90
Amos Nelson i" 20 40
O'Connors =" :" 20 90
Henry Reickhoff :" % So team Al %
Thoreson & Stock blacksmithing II rs
Kinney & Oscar part pay't road cotract 900 90
POOR FUND.
Gertrude Mosinak, assistance..... s eco
Mrs Nichols, .......... 90
Mrs Shombo, ......... %
Mrs j Barney ......... $50
Mrs Norgren ...... 500
Mrs Legacy ....... 80
Teriault care of Sophie Shombo... 4 20
MrsI Couseneau care of Il Phillion
and M Martin -. .......,..... Is IL
ii Mertens poor physician :. 100
three rigs to Mrs. Norgren 20
Mrs @ hurry meals to prisoners 49,. 200
Jas Peterson digging graves w Burk
and 4 Anderson 500
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02
Laborers and the Classified Service.

To the Editor Of The Evening Star:
Some days ago I read in The Evening
Star that "A delegation representing some
five hundred persons had called upon Sena-
tor Hanna with a petition requesting him
to use his influence in having them changed
from laborers' to the classified service and
urged a reason that they had passed a
civil service examination and were only paid
$50 a month for doing work that others in
the classified service were paid 81 600 or
more" An answer to the above complaint
was given by some one who seemed to
speak with authority that these govern
ment employees were classed as "laborers''
their full quota under the civil service reg
ulations." One might infer from this they
were there by sufferance. Now, 1 would
like to ask for information. Why is it these
five hundred persons are there at all
when every southern and southwestern
state. If l am not mistaken. are short of
their full quota Of employees in the CLASH
fed service in the different departments of
the government? It cannot be that these
men capable Of filling these places nor from
any indifference to obtain them, as under
stand there are eligibles for these places
from those states, but 1t seems there are no
vacancies Why are there no vacancies?
Is it not because these five hundred labor
ers" are filling positions to which they are
not entitled under the civil service rules?
Are not these five hundred laborers'' who
are petitioning to be placed in the "classi-
fed service in order to get their salaries
raised actually filling places that in JUS
tice belong to those states which have not
their ftdl quota of employees in the govern
ment ssrvice? Why this discrimination? Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02

with other fashionable fads; and that In
turn would be a great benefit to the manu-
facturers and dealers in this line of highly
useful and esthetic articles.
1t might be little unpleasant or aWk-
ward at first, but would soon get used
to It, and whatever squeamishness one
might have on the subject would be over
come by the consciousness of the vast bene-
fit he was comforting on humanity by ex-
terminating the pesky germs!
Some may object to this plan, but there
will be no force in their objection, for we
all agree that the preservation of human
life and health is of paramount Importance,
and If it Is right and proper to adopt means
to accomplish this, then it is not only right,
but the duty of those in authority to adopt
the best and most effective means and 1
submit that none has been suggested that
can begin to compare with this in efficiency.
Although l claim this original with my
self, yet desiring to contribute my quota to
the benefit of my fellow citizens have re-
Trained from patentirg it, SO our worthy
Commissioners and all others are free to
adopt it and as ready means of introduce
ing it l suggest that the Commissioners
should set an example by first equipping
themselves. OBSERVER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02
THE STATIONARY ENGINEERS.
Plans Forming for Suitable Memorial
to Robert Fulton,

The National Association of Stationary
Engineers of the District of Columbia, No
!, held its regular meeting at it's hall, 18th
and Pennsylvania avenue last night. A re-
port was made by the different committees
appointed to look out for the annual con-
vention of 1904, SO as to have 1t held in this
city. The matter is progressing favorably,
and the association is making arrangements
to have printed beautiful souvenir of the
public buildings and grounds, statues, etc,
of the national capital, with fine descrdp-
tlon to be presented to the visitors, of
which quite number is expected.
A circular will be sent out to the % 600
members, notifying them Of the desire Of
No. l of this city, and asking their hearty
cooperation to make the convention sue
cess.
During the evening a paper was read by
Mr.. Joseph I. Keefer, VINO has been for
some time trying to get a suitable memorial
to mark the place on Rock creek where
Robert Fulton tried his first steamboat He
gave a history Of Robert Fulton and his ex-
periments. His first wheel boat was run
across the creek at the odd Pierce Mill site
on the klingle road. Afterward, when he
came back from England, Mr.. Keefer said
he tried his submarine boats at a place on
the creek back of Oak Hill cemetery and
not far from the residences of Count Rum
ford and joel Barlow the poeD, which were
located on what was called KalOrama
Heights then, now 25th and streets north
west The old house in which Joel Barlow
lived was standing up to about five years
ago, when it was torn down to make room
for more modern structures. Fulton died in
1915. Count Rumford died in about 1898,
and Joel Barlow lived to ripe age, dying
about 1895
Robert Fulton Is buried in Trinity church
yard, New York city, and in December
1902, a society of engineers had a memorial
service and erected a tablet to his memory.
continued Mr.. Keefer. Many people of
Washington were present The speakers told
of Fulton's early experiments and his final
success with the steamboat. They told Of
how the grave in Trinity churchyard had
gone practically unmarked for all these
years until now. The addresses were made
by Rear Admiral Melville, Chief Engineer
3. F. sherwood of the navy, and DR.. r. H
Thurston.
The Washington society has taken the
matter in charge and the members will en-
deavor to have during the convention time
| something said and done about Robert Full
| ton and his first steamboat experiments and
his subsequent torpedo boat in which he
submerged himself for over hour under
| water in old Rock creek.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02
HE WALKED AWAY.
"Pat' Carr Makes Escape From the
Work house.

James alias Pat" Carr is giving trou-
BILE to the local authorities. He is fugi-
tive from the workhouse. Just when or
under what circumstances he managed to
get away the guards say they do not know.
He was assigned to street work this morn
ing, and when the time for him to go out
on the street arrived he was not to be
found.
He had walked away, it was stated at the
workhouse, and no trace Of him could be
discovered. AS soon as it was known that
he had escaped the police authorities were
notified and his absence was discussed
about the Police Court, where he is well
known.
Carr is twenty-five years old, and the
police were informed that his home is at
rs Oath street. He was arrested the Goth
of March by Policeman Vermillion of the
sixth precinct and charged with the theft
of suit of clothes from ]. A. Taggart At
the time 1t was stated he was wanted as a
deserter from the army. The case was
tried in the Police Court, and sentence Of
$40. with thirty days on the farm as the
alternative, was imposed.
Being unable to pay the fine he was sent
down. The striped uniform Of the prison
was put on him. and he was scheduled to
work on the street today. He disap pointed
the guards, and an effort is being made by
the wOrkhouse officials to apprehend him.
The fugitive's description has been tele-
phoned to the several police stations and
the police instructed to lookout for him.
Later in the day 1T was learned that Carr
had been seen in the vicinity of TWining
| City, and guards were sent from the work.
house in pursuit of him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02
Cutting Lawn Grass.
To the Editor Of The Evening Star:


1 notice in Wednesdays issue of The Star
an article entitled Care of the Lawn"
take the liberty of criticising some of the
advice given in it from the standpoint of
one having forty years experience with
lawns in this and other countries. 1t is
recommended in the article that the grass
on a new lawn should be allowed to grow
seven or eight inches in length before 1t is
cut l think this is mistake. In my ex-
perience 1 have found the best results by
cutting the grass when it is not over three
or four inches in height This prevents 1t
getting coarse and stalky, and it Will grow
faster after being cut, and also grow
thicker The writer also states that II 1t
is desired to kill the grass the lawn mower
should be run over it frequently. This
also is a mistaken idea, experience
proves that the oftener a lawn is cut the
finer and thicker the grass becomes. L
have made lawn in three months and
began to cut the grass as soon as 1t was
long enough to cut, and never allowed IL
to get over three inches in length. and gen.
orally cut it leaving the stubble about
three-quarters of an inch long. In other
respects / consider the article very good.
T. COLDWEIIL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02

this Il OF subject for presidential ana con
pressfonal inquiry? Instead of granting the
''peti ion of these five hundred laborers' for
promotion should it not lead to an investi-
CATION as to whether the civil service rules
are heing complied with? Turn on the
light There can be no doubt in the mind
Of any we'll informed person that the law
is often ruthlessly set aside to serve the
interest of some influential senator or rep
resentative who has only to make known
his wish to some departmental chief that
such and such a one must be provided for.
The question of merit is not considered in
these particular cases. but the influence OF
the senator or representative making the
request, 1 was about to say, but demand
would be more appropriate OF course no
human law or its enforcement can be per-
feet but is there not a wide margin here
for Improvement? JOHN NJ. SlMPSON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02

for less than $4,000. In the last four years
property in this general neighborhood, in
Guiding the square mentioned, has been
steadily increasing in value. When the ap-
preparation bill was under consideration In
the Senate the committee had before it an
estimate of the supervising architect Of
the treasury, the total of which exceeded by
some fifty thousand dollars the amount
finally appropriated by Congress. 1t was
considered by the committees Of Congress
dealing with the subject that the amount
finally agreed upon was a fair approximate
to the present real value of the square. No
one will deny that Senator Stewards prop
erty is the most desirable in the square. II
the sum appropriated is to be considered
the approximate value of the property, then
the price for which Senator Stewart has
offered his property to the government is
something more than ii per cent less than
what he would receive if the whole amount
were appropriated in the purchase Of the
land in question. F. l.. SIDDONS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02
The Big Trees of California.
he Editor of The Evening Star:

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
Several articles which have appeared
lately in The Star about the threatened de-
struction of the big trees In the Calaveras
Grove, Cal, have aroused my interest and
indignation greatly, and I wish to add one
more protest, from American woman
who loves all this broad land, against such
a wicked and unnecessary sacrifice. 1t
seems impossible that the wanton destruc-
ton Of those grand old giants can be all
lowed. 1t means the humiliation of one of
the most interesting of natural objects in
this country to cut down in a few months
what has taken centuries perhaps mil
lenaries. for growth. For these trees are
the oldest objects in this land executing the
very mountains and rocks themselves.
Travellers from all parts of the civilized
world have stood filled with admiration
and wonder and even with awe, in that
magnificent grove. and how will it look to
foreign nations if we allow its destruction !?
Can refute it If they call us mer-
cenary and submerged in a greed for gain ?
We watched with apathy and Indifference
the cruel determination of our buffaloes
We have made some efforts to protect the
seals, because of their market value. We
have aroused to the prote ction of the pal
isades of the Hudson before they have been
much defaced. Canyons, mountains, glaciers
Esd waterfalls are not easily defaced bv
mans desire for gain, and these are ali
found in many lands, but these majestic
trees are unique, we OF America alone have
them, and to the whole country, but es-
pecially to California, will be the disgrace
if we show ourselves too Indifferent or I'M
able to protect them. They are a living
link with the past ages of this continent
We have not got old bell towers, palaces
and cathedrals to connect us with the past,
but nature has given us these living monu-
ments, such as no human skill could make
that were waving their green heads when
the son of Eric the Norseman drifted from
the coast Of Greenland onto the shores OF
Vineland and discovered this new world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02
Long Distance Smoke Prevention Hint.

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
I get you away off here, up in the noun
tains $500 feet above level, where we
had a temperature of 10 degrees below zero
on the morning of February 3, while down
here, they had warm weather such you
note at Phoenix. 1 am twenty-five miles
from the post Office my nearest white
neighbor, all my help and neighbors being
Indians, and only OF them that speaks
English. You may judge that when l get
The Star eight days old | read and appre-
ciate it. read great many communion
tons about the smoke law and the black
smoke. 1t IS a well-known fact to engineers
who understand their business that by
properly distributing the coal over the CRATE
bars SO as to allow enough of oxygen of the
air to combine with the hydrogen in the
much greater heat IS produced, sometimes
as much as 1900 degrees, and no black
smoke saving from Is to 1-3 of the coal.
The coal should be kept we'll wet to pre-
vent the fine dust from being carried out
the top of the chimney. Any one interested
should 60 into the office If Mr. Joseph Hill,
superintendent of the Interior Department
buildings and engines. Go in off E street,
and If Mr.. Hill is not in ask the captain of
the watch to let you sit at the window look
ing out at the top of the stack; and If you
are there for hour l don't think you will
see smoke more than once, and only one
Hin comes in / am Sure he will take pleas
ure in showing the modus operandi in full
AS bitumfnous coal is the fuel for steaming
and heating, all who profess should know
how to fire it GEO. w. s.
San Carlos Agency, Ariz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02
The Mississippi Floods.
, the Editor Of The Evening Star


The editorial in your valuable paper of
March 81, 1903. pleased me very much and
as my father has labored necessarily since
January /, 1867, to drain and develop our
wonderfully fertile Mississippi valley.
take the liberty of thanking you for that
splendid editorial; and yet. if you will gra-
ciously permit me, l would like to call pub
bic attention to the fact that the f1ood-pIane
can and must be switched into the Gulf Of
Mexico waters as near the mouth of Red
river as possible, without in the least in
terfering with the flood-plane which should
be kept in front of New Orleans if that be
possible for all time to come. The confr-
sion of this one point in the public mind
has caused many years of toll on my faith
er's part, and the wasting of more than
fifty million dollars by the national gov
eminent since 1879 in trying to hold the
floods. which always run over the levees
break them in many places or cave them
into the river as they madly rush onward
10 the Gulf of Mexico. My fathers outlet
system alone will save our lowlands
JAMES SELDOM COWDON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02

centuries before Columbus was born; when
Alfred the Great ruled England some OF
them may even have been thrifty young
saplings when Julius Caesar led the con-
quering Romans and st. Paul wrote his
epistles to the young church. And can we
allow them to be cut down to make boards
to enrich a grasping syndicate? Is there no
law of the United States or the state of
California to save them? If not then are
there not some among the millionaires Of
this land who will come to the rescue for
the honor of the country whose protection
and laws enabled them to gain the power
to do SO?
If national pride, love of the beautiful
and wonderful in nature and sentiment are
of no consideration If mercenary motives
or even utility are all that can gain pro-
lection, then God help us before we have
to blush at being called Americans.
j. S. F. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-02
Individual Cuspidors Proposed.
o the Editor of The Evening Star:

To the Editor Of The Evening Star:
In the discussion of the burning ques-
ton whether to spit not to spit on the
sidewalks there seems to be considerable
difference Of opinion The medical fratern-
hy advocates the adoption Of the regulation
on hygienic grounds, and the ladies be-
cause their skirts are soifed. On the other
hand 1t is contended by some that to ex-
pectorate on the street pavement instead Of
the sidewalk in no manner lessons the dan
ger from the germs, so that between them
and those who contend uhat II VIII II seems
to be stand off. = =slhi
AS to the women who are so unre asona BILE
and foolish as to wear bong skirts. sweep
ing and gathering up the filth and germs
from the streets, they are not entitled TO
any consideration oravoics in the matter.
Now, it strikes me that 1t is perfectly
easy to remedy the trouble entirely. All
that is necessary is for the Commissioners
to make regulation winch shall require
every expectorating biped to be equipped
with a cuspidor, which he shall carry on his
person whenever he leaves his own house
and use it whenever he desires to expector-
ate.
IT, that way you see the germs would all
be imprisoned and prevented from doing
any injury to any one; and to make "assur-
ance doubly sure the regulation should
require each cuspidor to be freshly charged
before starting out with some effective
germicide that would destroy the death
dealing germs.
These infantile cuspiders could be carried
either under or outside of the coat by a
strap or cord over the shoulder, the same
as a soldier carries his canteen, where It
could be readily reached when needed.
They would be made OF gold or silver for
society swells, and of cheaper materials for
the common herd. Once introduced, the
manufa cturers would soon devise all sorts
OF fancy and ornamental shapes and de-
signs. SO that in short time there would
be the same rivalry among the purchasers
to buy the most unique that there Is now