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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
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The News Y


Well, the two-minute trotter is here
at last.
If Turkey is TO be carved John Bull
woud like at least a wing.
Oyster Bay i so lively now that the
native biyalycs are losing a lot Of sleep.
You could lia rdly blame King Edward
If be were TO talk with brogue hence
forth.
Pera can certainly report progress II
has seated new president with no
shooting
Bulgurians threaten to do Prince Fer.
dinand favor by taking his throne
away from him.
A witness In the Kentucky feud case
has died % appendicitis, thus cternally
disgracing his family.
Since a fedcrsl court has discovered
that the merger does no violence to the
laws Jim" Hill perhaps will cease to see
Danics.
This year has seen the trotting. pacing
and running records all broken. Il looks
as though the horse were making des-
perate effort TO distract attention from
the automobile.
Naturally those operators who corner
I'd the cotton market object 70 being
allied gamblers. but an old farmer like
Secretary Wilson likes to call things By
their right names
Prof. Langley wants secrecy because
he is experimenting with a machine for
the government 20 use in case u war. Is
il designed TO lure the enemy TO take
passage In the flying machine?
Now that her trial is over Nine. The
rese Humbert viii exercise her little pull
to show that the jury did not know what
II was talking .1out when st said she
would Lave TO serve FIVE years.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
Low Tariff ana Trust Rnating.


1t is interesting, but not important.
10 speculate apon the Democratic cam
didate for next year. The policy of
the party is about fixed Ii proposes
to make its fight on low tariff. a
tariff for revenue only asthe Demo
cratic State convention Of Iowa put it
not long ago. and such an issue cannot
possibly be a winning one. no matter
where the nomination goes.
The low tariff is TO be demanded on
the ground that by this means alone
can the trusts be smashed. Even
Cleveland himself has this idea. The
trusts, the Democratic argument runs,
are made possible by the protective
policy, hence they can be unmade by
the withdrawal OF protection.
And SO the Democratic cry will be,
Smash the tarilf and bust the trusts.
There Is much food for thought for
business man nd working man alike
in that cry.
Smash the tan 4, What does that
meang An uphes al of all business. a
closing down of n, e, the throwing out
of work Of countless thousands. The
country has had its experience, aud
under Cleveland, too
AS for trust busting, the Democrats
make no distinction between legitimate
combinations of capital and the con-
splIacies among capitalists that are
harmful. Here is where the difference
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
WARM wEArAEs Helps CROPS.
Corn Grows Fast Everywhere, but
Rain Is Now Nee lei in Places.

The weather bureaus weekly sum
mary of crop conditions is as follows:
While complaints of cool nights dur
ing the early par, of the week are report
ed from the States of the central Mis-
sissippi aud oaio valleys, temperature
conditions throughout the coantry as a
whole have been very favorable. the up
per Missouri and upper Mississippi val
leys, lake region and Rocky Mountain
Districts, the greater part of which has
suffered from abnormally low tempera-
tire for several weeks. receiving more
than normal heat.
Portions of the south Atlantic States
experienced heavy rains. while the Ohio
valley. the greater part Of Texas and
the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast
| districts are suffering from drouth.
On the whole she eorif crop has made
favorable progress. especially ovar the
central and western portions of the corn
belt the most decided advance being re-
ported from Nebraska and Kansas. In
the upper Ohio valley corn is suffering
seriously for rain. which is also needed
in portions of Illinois and Missouri and
much of the crop in Iowa viii suffer un-
less rain falls soon The reports indicate
that early corn will be safe from frost
By Sept. 10 to Oct. ] and late corn from
Oct, / 10 Is.
Considerable spring wheat remains to
be cut in North Dakota. but harvesting
is practically finished elsewhere in the
spring wheat region. and thrashing is in
progress In southern Minnesota much
grain in shock is damp. In South Da-
kota, Nebraska and Kansas the weather
has been highly favorable for stacking
and thrashing. Harvesting is nearly en-
ished in Oregon and advancing rapidly
in Washington the grain being Of supe-
rior quality.
Cotton has suffered materially from
heavy rains and lack of sunshine over a
large part of tile central aud eastern
districts of the coton region. The plant.
however. is generally well fruited
Throughout the belt A little picking has
been done throughout the southern por-
tons of the belt, but this work is not
yet general.
The condition of tobacco IN Tennessee
is exceptionally favorable and fair crop
is promised in Kentucky. 4 fair to good
crop is being cut in Maryland and Vir-
ginia.
reports indicate a general decline in
the condition of apples. except in the
southern portion of middle Atlantic
States. where the outlook continues fay-
orable
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
DOOM ALL BuLGARIANS.
Turks Plan to Accomplish Their To-
tai Extirpatien.

According to a Sofia telegram the
Turkish repressive measures ID Macedo-
Aia have reached the utmost limits of
barbarism and il is evident that it is
the intention TO accomplish by degrees
the total extirpation of the Bulgarian
population.
Within the last few days. aays a cor
respondent, twelve more Christian VII
lagos have been handed over to fire and
sword and the women. children and the
aged have been massacred indiscrimi-
nately. Conveys of prisoners dispatched
to Monastir have been murdered by
their .scorts on the way.
A private letter from foreign resi-
dent hi Monastir says even the local
Turks are Disguised and mediate assas-
sinating the consuls in order to awaken
European intervention.
The insurgents are doubtless taking a
terrible revenge and are executing the
revolutionary program to the letter. The
reported concentration of large Turkish
forces in the Adrianople district at Mus
tafa- Pasta. Kizylagach and other points
ON the Bulgarian frontier is regarded
With much apprehension in Sofia, as it
Is well known that in case OF war an in
yasion would occur from this direction.
According to reports from CONSTANT
nople a rumor was current that war had
already been declared against Bulgaria.
1t was proved to be unfOunded, bat the
state Of popular feeling is said to beisach
that no other issue is regarded as possi-
bic.
1t is further stated that although the
Russian squadron was withdrawn FROM
Inada il continues to cruise near the
Bosperls.
The insurgents in the Debr district are
said to be destroying the villages and
numbering their inhabitants.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02

comes in between the Roosevelt and
the Cleveland propositions. The Re-
publican idea is TO regulate trusts-to
prevent extortion and monopoly, but
not to disturb enterprise III every way
legitimate just because they take on
large proportions. The Cleveland idea
Is to cut the tariff to q revenue basis
and TO hit specially, even viciously, at
every so-c.llled trust.
As a matter of fact. the trust prob
lem Is regulating itself. 1t seems quite
certain that Congress has ample au-
thority to provide for supervision over
all corporations and to apply the rem
edy when one of them ovcrsteps the
limit. This being the case, what else
could be asked in reason? And espe-
cially as the day of combinations built
largely out Of wafer seems to be over.
The people are no longer to be gulled.
The asphalt trust has given US such a
lesson in deception and greed that to
organize another company on any sim
liar basis woul,l be out OF the question.
The Consolidated Lake superior Com
pdus II dhVllhCA EphNttH tHdt heAu ott
glittering allurements. and has made
1t impossible FOR like condition Of
affairs TO be brough about again.
Then there is thar shipbuilding trust,
in which Schwab is concerned through
the Betllehen Steel Works.
Oh No. there will be no more of
such colcerns capitalized far beyond
the power TO earn dividends. The
death knell Of the vicious trusts has
already been sounded
y SO we fancy that our Democratic
friends viii not have very easy time
of it next year in inducing the country
to elect a Democratic President. Phil
adelpkia inquirer
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02

British military officer. DE Sable came
here in the commercial interests of the
French. and lived in his cabin till 1876,
when he sold out to man named lie
Mai, also a French trader, who made
some improvements and stayed till 1904.
In the summer of 1903 Capt. John
Whistler, H. s. A.. then stationed in
Detroit. was ordered to take his com
pany to Chicago, to occupy the post and
build fort The summer and autumn
were occupied in the building Of the fort,
which was named after Gen. Dearborn,
at that time Secretary of War.
In the spring Of 1904 Johlt Einzie. the
first white settler, bought lie MATS prop
erty and came here with his family from
Niles, Mich.
Aug Is, 1912, occurred the massacre
Of Fort Dearborn, when out Of 6S men
and 81 women and children who left the
fort under the escort Of the alleged
friendly Indians. only % men aud II
women ard children escaped death. The
following day the fort was burned and
IN 1916 was rebuilt,
The worst disaster which ever visited
the city was the great FIRE Of 1874. which
deyoured three and half square miles
Of the best portion Of the city. 1t ate
its way over a territory four miles IN
length and mile and a quarter in width.
The buildings destroyed were 1850. and
nearly 100000 persons were left home
less. Street frontage 20 miles in extent
was burned. with loss Of $200000.0o0.
Although a passing commemorauon Of
the city's centennial was observed Mon
dav and Tuesday the great celebration
will not take place until toward he close
of September, when an enti,e week viii
be given over to festivities and suitable
exercises Of various kinds I''gminated
floats, Mardi Gras features an ther at
tractions will give 10 the city the great.
est celebration in its history.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
The rufy Failures.

The free trade press is. of course, ex-
peeted 10 give prominence to the July
failures and the fact that they were
the heaviest for ten years. When the
situation is fully anaiyzed, however, a
step the free trader does NOT take-a
much different view is shown.
II we deduct from the 915 defaults
the % OF great size which supplied
s109l1.504. or almost two-thirds of the
total liabilities. we find that the re-
maining SOB defaults averaged only
5000 each, or less than any year for
Eve years As regards the manufac-
turing bankruptcies. twelve Of the 253
failures proved liabilities amounting
to 81 .093 .269. leaving only S94s3 on an
average for the. remaining PAL. bet
ter showing than has been made for
The past seven years
Our free trade friends will not be
able to bald any an.isprotectionist ar
guments ON the July 'ailurcs.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
OPEN TO HOMESTEAD.
Many Acres of Rich Vacant Public
Land in Missouri.

According 10 the records on file az the
Office 81 the secretary of the Missouri
State Board Of Agriculture there are
about 23.J. 1913 acres Of vacant public land
in Missouri which may be homesteaded
or purch ased outright for S1.25 an acre.
Much of this land is well timbered and
some Of II Is adapted TO fruit orchards,
while. Of course, a large part of ii is
worthless for agricultural purposes.
The State is divide into three dis
triefs. known as the Springfield. Irouton
and BoonviIe districts. with land offices
at Sprit saeld. Ironton and Boonville re
spectively Each district is ia ehargy Of
land register and receiver. appointed
by this resident, who look after all gov
ernme1t land matters.
The government land Of Missouri IL
rapidly disappearing. As railroad facili-
ties increase and as land becomes more
valuable, the government land is either
horesteaded or purchased. In 1899 there
were 337 .94s acres IN the State, de-
crease Of over 10000 acres since that
time
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
cHlcAeo,s CENTENNIAL.
An Entire Week Will Re Given Over
10 Suitable Exercises.


Monday was the centennial Of the be-
ginning Of Fort Dearborn, the pivoe
around which Chicago's history turns.
One hundred years ago the FIRST shovelful
of earth was turned 10 make room for
the fortress on the prair;es that was e
protect a handful Of settlers. 1t marked
the permanent settlement of the village
at the mouth Of mild river. This tiny
village, almost in the space of life
time, has leaped and become the second
city in the United States, with a popu-
lation of 2,23i 600.
Its growth by decades is interesting.
In 1910 it had population of 1853. Ten
years later the number was 29.963. In
1870 the population had reached 29S,00o
and decade later $4,000. The census
of 1900 gave Chicago l,69S5775.t and now
the population is estimated at 2,231, 600.
The first rude cabin to appear in what
is now Chicago was that of Baptiste
Pointe de Sable, negro from San Dor
miDgo, who established his home here
July 4, ITO according to the record Of a
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
Short News Notes.

jefferson City. Mo-. business streets
are TO be macadasnized
Ostriches have been given a elassi6-
cation in the worlds fair live stock show.
Muskogee. |. T., has granted fran
chise TO Eastern men for a street car
line About six miles Of track are to be
built.
Kansas leads oil other States in Gal
loway cattle. according to r. W. Park,
secretary Of the American Galloway As
sociation.
Oliver W. Marble. prominent lodge
and club man and architect. formerly Of
Chicago, Yves convicted by a jury at
sandusky. Ohio, Of practicsng medicine
without a license relying OF faith e
make his patients we'll
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
STORM SWEEPS WEST.
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas aud Montana
Arc Flooded.

Arc Flooded.
The worst rain Of the season was re-
ported from points throughout Iowa
Thursday, Crops in many places are
badly damaged and streams are over
their banks. There have been many
washouts. in Montana along the line of
the Great Northern, and the streams
are flooding the country The State of
Nebraska has been visited by unusually
heavy rains and much crop damage is
claimed. Kansas rivers and streams are
oycraowing and many farms are inun-
dated.
the worst rain of the season fell all We'd
nesday night and Thursday morning. The
who'll country is flooded and streams are
oHt o. their banks Numerous splall
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
fIRsT WHITE MALE
BORN IN CHICAGO.

Alexander Beaubien of Chicago, beliey-
cd TO be the oldest policeman in the
world, has been retired from active duty
ending a service extending over period
of fifty years. Beaubien is 81 years old
and is the FIRST white male child born on
the site Of Chicago He participated in
almost every ''firstv event in the city's
history. When he was a boy he hunted
deer in the woods along the lake front
where now stands the city's most impos-
ing mansions. Beaubien is tall athletic
and robust and objects to his retire
ment.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02

past few days of panic in Wall street.
Well, it Is rather odd to find Repub-
leah newspaper nowadays ignoring
the part which free trade tariff
played in the ruinous time of 1898
and the part which protective tariff
now plays in holding the business OF
the country on a level. sound, secure
basis. Perhaps the Press forgot.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02

The oniy difference which the Phila-
delpina Press is able 70 perceive be-
tween hnarciaI conditions in 1893 and
in 1908 Is expressed ia the remark:
.If American currency had been
sound In 1895 and 1891 panic wc-ild
have leen prevented he then. II
came because 10 one cauld be certain
as 10 The standard CT value. To-day
American carreney IS a. scInd as any
In Tie wo1ll TAe result IS today ap-
parcut. No such fail iii values on the
stscg market rs Is row IN progress
has ever come before without bringing
great failures and creating a panic
None Las come now +"
whercat the Baltimore News Is
novel d manifest surprise that the
Press sa3ald mink hat The currency
h-d cveFything and the tariff nothing
ut all L, 10 with CO editions ten years
;tgo. and that better currency and
not better tariff s what has kept
the country safe FROM harm IN the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
VICE CONSUL, is SLAIN
UNITED STATES OFFICIAL AS.
SAsSiNA1ED IN SYRIA.
William c. Mageissen Killed in .s,e
Streets OF Beirut = washington IL
Aroused American Minister to De-
mand Quicik Action By Turkey.

The State Department Thursday ~
ceived a cablegram from Minister Leisci,-
man at Constantinople announcing that
William c. Magelssen, United States
vice-consul at Isrs-ut, Syria, was assas-
sinaSed while riding in carriage. The
American minister Immediately brought
the crime TO the attention of the govern
ment and demanded action by Turkey.
Acting Secretary Loomis cabled Minis
ter Leischmap instructing him to de-
mand the inmediate arrest and punish
ment of the persons guilty Of the murder.
Magelssen was a native Of and 'vas APP
pointed from Minnesota.
Admiral Cotton, commanding the Eu-
ropean squadron, was csbled by the
Navy Department 10 have his vessels IN
readiness to move TO Beirut. which is
on the eastern shore Of the Mediter-
ranean sea, in case the demands of the
United States government are not COM
piled with. The Brooklyn and the San
Francisco are at Vile Franche and the
Machias is at Genoa.
Magelssen. who is Scandinavian.
was appointed viee~consul at Beirut Sept.
20. 1899 by Consul Gabriel Bic Ravu-
ud4, Nho - VI LUIS same hdAH talltgs Az
the time of his appointment as vice
consul he was a consular clerk in Tur-
key. Magelssen was appointed on the
recommendation of Senator Nelson of
Minnesota, who says that he was the
son of a prominent Lutheran minister.
He was born at Bratsburg, Fillmore
County, MINI.
Lay Murder TO Plot.
The murder is ascribed by some to a
plot reported early in the week TO kill
MI the foreign consals in Turkish citieg.
Methods OF the Sultan. it was explained,
had so Disguised some Of the Turks that
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02

ent Governor Of the
Philippines will
succeed him as Sec
rotary of War. Gen.
Luke E. Wright,
the present vice gov
ernor Of the island,
will be made GOV
ernor. The state
ment that these
changes viii be
made is omcaily
authorized.
Regarding the APP
~. r ~
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
We Al Remc,,,her.

After a hard struggle. tariff reform
is directly before us. A redhct:cn Of
tariff changes upon the necessities Of
life VIII bring benefits, palpable and
substantial. seen and felt by thou
sands who win be better fed and bet
ter clothed and better sheltered. -
Grover Cleveland in 1893. And we al
remember what happcned--WsrTea:
iohioj Chronicle.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02

States or in vain endeavor to exait
some country above the station which
nature has assigned her.-Kansas City
Journal
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
TAFT TO SUCCEED ROOF

Present Governor of the Philippines
Aecep.s Portfolio of War. Baa
The resignation of Secreterxsof War
Elihu Root viii 20 into effect about Jan.
/, and Judge William H. Taft. the pres
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02
Our Industrial Yalne.

Measured the gross value of prod
ucts for the year, as scheduled by the
census of 1900. our industrial value in
that year was S13.039, 2T9, 566 That
enormous result was reached by the
following stages:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02

-
enormous result was reached by the
following stages:
1850 .-................ $1.019, 106.616
1850 ...............-.. 1.SS5, S61,0I6
1870 ............ 4,232. 325, 442
1880 COMMUNICATIONS. 5.369, $40, 191
| 1920 ............ g,3T2. 49,. 2S3
1900 ..,............... 1908, 2T9,566
Divided into fifteen groups If main
and allied products. the showing is:
/. Food and kindred pro
duets ..... SIT, 10000
.. Iron and Steel and their
products ............ 1,f93. 400, sos
3. Textiles ...,........ 1861, asa. 4S4
4. Hand trades ....... /, 1S3 ,615.4IS
5. Lumber, and its manu-
factsres ....... 1896. a06,579
6. Miscellaneous industries 1.004 .O92 ,294
{. Metals, other than iron
and steel ..... 74s, T95, AGA
:. Paper and printing -. 6o6,317, 76S
8. Leather aud its finished
produces ..-+.......,.. oSol3- ,146
TO- Chemicals and allied
products ..,... 552.s91.s77
IL. Vehicles for land trans
portation ..,....... sos, GAO. 129
u. Liquors and beverages 425,504, 16T
10. Clay. glass and stoAs
products .....-........ 293.564.235
IA. Tobacco .. S3.016,546
10. Shipbuilding ......... 14.5IS, 1853
This grand result gave employment
to 5,316,So2 wage-earners. earning So
32s,691. 254; 3o1,.1T4 officials and clerks.
earning S4o4...80.2T4, in 512,734 estab-
lishments.
Conseryatively estimating The in
crease in all lines for the three years
since 1900. and bearing in mind the
immense Immigration of each year. we
can safely assume our present indus
trial position TO be:
Establishments .... 100000
Workers and officials. 80. 100000
Yearly wages and salaries. SO, 80 100000
Yenrly product .......... 1900, 100000
Americauizei.
There is no more striking and graft
flying fact in our history than the ra-
pidity and completeness with which
the uncouth foreigners who have come
here from the peasantry of Europe
become Americanized not only in man
ners and dress, but in thought and
feeling. The fears of the past have
not been realized, and there 8, little
doubt that the misgivings Of the pres
ent VIII be as effectually dissipated as
these new contributions to the Drawn
and rough laboring force of the coun-
try wear of their foreign earlnarks
and become Americanized. 1t is well
enough to keep out the paupers, the
infirm, the diseased, and. IL possible.
/ the anarchists. but the coming here Of
! laborers that are as assiinilable and
/ progressive as those that Europe FUR
nsnes has not proved harmful but
/ beneficial iii the past, and it is not
/ likely 10 be any more harmful or any
i less beneficial in the future. Pliiladel-
! phia Press.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-05-16

NEW YORK, May 16.-The business
and social friends Of Mr.. Il. w. Harden
have had good laugh over the fact
that the marriage on Tuesday next of
his old time friend, Mr.. Frank A. Van
derlip, to Miss Narcissa Cox will cost
him quite pretty penny. 1t got out a
few days ago that Mr.. Vanderlip and
Mr.. Harden. had made an agreement
when they were both newspaper men
that whichever of the two married first
should enjoy wedding trip at the ex-
pense of the other Mr.. Vanderlip be-
came assistant secretary of the treas
ury under Secretary Gage Mr., Harden
is to be Mr.. Vanderlip's best man, and
when after the ceremony he steps up
and wishes bride and bridegroom a
happy married life and hopes they may
have the jolliest sort of trip to Europe
he will have to 'look pleasant and
forget that he (Mr. Harden) has to bear
the expenses of the honeymoon tour.