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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03

Northwestern travelling men have fled
petitions for a new mileage ticket.
During the summer the California linn
tied trains of the Santa Fe will run semi
weekly only between Chicago, Kansas
City, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Twelve miles will be taken off the Big
Four's mileage between indianapolis and
St. Louis by the new cutoff between
Hillsboro and East st. Louis, now I'M
der construction.
The telegraphers of the Illinois Central
and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Rail-
road have completed new schedule OF
wages for the two systems and will de-
mand an increase over present wages.
Oklahoma and st. Louis Railway Off
cials announce that an agreement has
been concluded whereby road is to be
built from Oklahoma City northwest to
point on the Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient, about 100 miles. The line is to
be completed within two years and in
operation between Oklahoma City and
Kingfsher by July 1, 1904.
Operators and station men on the
western end of the Erie have not taken
kindly to the order requiring them to
buy and wear uniforms. Out of twenty
five all but two refused to obey, on the
ground that they could not do so on the
salaries they receive.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
has contracted for the building of a con-
Meeting link of twenty-four miles between
Delphos, on its own line, and Mandate,
on the Findlay, Fort Wayne and West
ern. This will give it the shortest
through air line from Cincinnati to Fort
Wayne.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
Using Bordeaux M;xtnra

AS fruit growers become more famil-
lar with the use of bordeaux mixture
they more fully appreciate it's value,
although experiments during the past
season demonstrate that it has been
used stronger than is necessary ex-
cept where the plants have been In
tested unusually bad. The most de-
-sirable formula is four pounds Of cop
per sulphate and four pounds of I'M
slaked lime to forty gallons of water
Place the copper in an old bag and
hang it in few gallons of water IN
til dissolved. The lime should be
slaked and then strained into the cop
per solution, at the same time adding
the balance Of the water. When the
mixture Is to be used it should be kept
stirred, so that the ingredients will be
we'll mixed. AS the mixture Is given
it is used mainly for scale, and when
it is to be used on insects, such as po-
tato bugs, paris green may be added
at the rate of one pound to $50 gal.
Ions of the bordeaux.-St. Paul Dis
patch.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
State Items of Interegse

Joseph Petersen. an engineer Of Mil
waukee, died in st. Petersburg of small
pox.
yrantsburg is the home town of Jockey
Helgason, the winner of the American
Derby, and the place is wild over his
success
The business men of BeIoit have or
ganized an association for mutual protec-
tion Mt times Of strikes, and to steady
the conditions OF labor.
The corner stone of the Fond du Lac
nublie library was laid. The building IS
70 cost $4,000, of which $4,000 is CIV
en- by Andrew Carnegie.
The Oshkosh Common Council has I'M
der consideration an ordinance intended
70 keen clairyoyants, fortune tellers ana
mountebanks out of the city.
The Soldiers and Sailors Union OF
Green County held its annual reunion at
Rrodhaad. Speeches were made by Capt.
Raudeu, Gen Byers and others.
~ An effort has been launched TO estab-
Iish a county agricultural school for JET
ferson County Superintendent Cary OF
Madison addressed u meeting OF those
Interested
WD tr1flpS. eINIiIS LIeAA AAtiAAANS -
Harry Mccoy and Charles Seigison, are
said to have burglarized the residence OF
Charles Huber in the town of Fort Win
pebago. \ watch and a sum OF money
was secured. Mccoy was captured, but
Seigison escaped.
After a search of nearly six months
George Woods, suspected of implication
in the Wholesale theft of castings from
the Janesville machine works, was cap
tlred at Fond du Lac by the pe1lce OF
that city.
Department Commander j. f Rundie
of Milwaukee is pronulgating the orders
in regard to the per capita tax. This
is now 10 cents for each member 'of the
Grand Army in good standing. It was
reduced at the encampment held recently
at Chippewa Falls. There are now 9,01I
member, in the Wisconsin department in
good standing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
NEED 100000 MEN.
Wanted to Gather the Harvest in Great
Wheat Fields of the West.

From the big wheat counties of Kan
sas comes a cry for help. The farmers
cannot harvest their grain crops, unless
an army of labOrers comes to the rescue.
Railroads, press and public have been
appealed to, to bring in the helpers.
Within the next fortnight $4,000 men
will be required to gather the wheat af-
ter the machines and get it into shock
ready for the thresher. To make the
harvest expeditions $4,000 men are nee
essary. Farm labor has been put at
wage premium to attract helpers, but
even with this inducement there is grave
danger that not enough men will be OBJ
tanned to garner and save the whole OF
the crop. There was a similar dearth
of harvest hands last year, but this year
the need is greater than ever.
Appeal after appeal has gone out from
the employment bureau. The agricul
tural press in some instances has agreed
to publish free of charge any sources of
supply from which laborers may be OBJ
tanned. The great railroad systems trav-
eraing the western wheat belt have made
special low rates to transport men from
other States and from populous centers
to the places of greatest need. Some
good has resulted from this, but the de-
ficiency is still alarming.
Farmers are freely offering $3.50 a
day and board. In places where the
need is most acute wages considerably
in excess of those quoted are offered.
Kansas is not the only State ham
pered by a dearth of farm laborers.
South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska,
Montana and the great wheat sections in
western Canada are in similar straits.
An army of more than a hundred thou
sand men would not be a whit too large
to care for the crop.
It is a race between the various Sec
tons as to which shall offer the best in
ducements to get the men. This prob
lem is becoming graver every year The
era of prosperity and the good wages
have taken laborers away from the
farms and drawn them to cities.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03

loop-like rou on wagon end gate, SO
chain can turn easily; d is chain run
ming from c to e, which is half-lnch
hook for hanging chain. on the othef
hook. @, at other end of rod, b, hang
the kettle. This arrangement allows
the kettle to be swung off the IRE
easily at any moment, and without
legs or anything under the kettle to
Interfere with building a fire. Such a
hanger is easy tc make, bat should De
made of only good, strong material
and put up substantial or tirm.-E. T.
Rnarrisser. in Farm and Home.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
Lose Land to Minnesota.

z. FL. Smith and p. e. Bradshaw of
West Superior are the Wisconsin men
who were recently declared losers IN the
contest with the State for strip of iron
land in northern Minnesota said to be
worth $1,000,0OO. The strip which the
State is awarded as swamp land in
cludes about thirty-six acres. That is
only about one-fourth of the entire strip
which these men won out on only a short
time ago, however. The land is near
Virginia, where an error was discovered
by Mr.. Smith in the government sur
veys. The two surveys did not meet and
right alongside some of the most paying
mines on the range lay a strip a mile in
length and 1000 feet in width at the
base, being triangular. 1t had taken sew
eral years for them to get possession.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
WlSCONSIN'S RECORD.
FAITHFULLY TOLD IN READARl {
SHAPE.
hermit of the Mississippi-Forced to
'e Up Strip of Swamp Land to
Mhnnesota-Saved from Iniury-Pa.
tient Awakes in Midst of O,erat;or

About two miles south of Mineiesia, on
the oank OF the Mississippi river, is a
mammoth and ugly shaped castle in
when resides an old hermit with hair as
"hlte as snow and with beard reaching
nearly to his waist This Rip Van Win
kle Is said to be more than 100 years old
ana no one knows his name or whence
ne came. His home is called Crazy
MANS Castle and is built on piling from
oH1twood and pieces of wrecked boats
On the four corners are steeples tower
ing Tar above the rude roof. The build
Ing Is three stories high, the two upper
noors being reached by means of ladders.
At no time of the year is there a stove in
the building and when the thermometer
begins to hover around the zero point
the old hermit seeks the friendly shell
ter OF cave, where he made his home
before he constructed his rude house. 1t
Is said that when the old man first land
ed In the vicinity he was we'll dressed
and appeared to be a man Of considerable
refinement. Immediately he isolated him
self from mankind and soon adopted
habits but little above those of the abo-
rhymes and each year he has grown more
barbaric in his way.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
BLACKS KILL AT ALTAR.
Georgia Planter Who Seeks TO Break
I'm Revival Ie Shot.

Up Revival 1s Shot.
Negroes in Harris County, Georgia,
killed John Cash, white man, who en-
tered church for colored people Sun
day and tried to break up the services.
Cash was a planter and the negroes
have a church near his home. A revival
has been in progress at the church and
Sunday night there was a great congre-
CATION and much shouting. The noise
disturbed Cash and he decided to break
up the meeting. He entered the church
in a threatening manner and ordered the
negroes to get out
Hes profan-- Gods house. Kill
him. shouted the religion frenzied ne
groes.
BE merciful," cried the preacher, but
the negroes were overweight and began
firing at Cash, who stood near the pulpit.
Probably 800 shots were fired, many of
them striking Cash, who fell in pool
of blood at the altar.
All during the fusllade the negroes
kept shouting, xiii the profanerw while
the preacher pleaded, BE merciful."
Only one negro, Henry White, has been
arrested, but it is not believed he will
be prosecuted. Henry Whites father
once killed a white man who was leading
a whitecap party.
Leading negroes of Philadelphia met
and decided to send a petition to Gar
Nicholas of Russia through Count Cas-
SIM, the Russian ambassador, asking him
to appeal to President Roosevelt to take
steps on behalf of the colored race in
this country. The Gar is expected by
the negroes to ask about race troubles
in this country in return for Americas
interest in the Kishenev affair.
A mob of fifty marched from Larkin-
vile, Ala, Monday night and took An
drew Diggs, colored, from the Scots
boro Jail and thence to the woods to be
lynched. Digs had been arrested for
attacking Miss Alma Smith, white, at
Larkinville. Sheriff d. 0. Austin re-
sisted the mob until he was shot down
and the keys taken from him.
At Peoria, ILL.,, special grand jury
convened to consider the case of John
McCray, the negro who week ago shot
and instantly killed Detective Murphy.
McCray is in the Galesburg Jail, where
he was taken to prevent lynching at the
hands Of a mob that surrounded the jail
for two nights. The people were only
appeased by promises of a speedy trial.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
Farm Hand Saves Employer.

A farm hand employed by Charles
HANSON, leading farmer, residing near
the Taylor orphan asylum, two and a
half miles southwest of Racine, saved
his employer and 2-year-old child from
being torn to pieces by a large New
foundland dog. Just as the father grasp
ed the child in his arms to save him
from being attacked, the dog jumped and
was about to leap on the father and child
the farm hand discharged the contents of
shotgun and struck the animal in the
head and the body fell to the porch, a
foot from where the father stood.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
Farmers Wives and the Cow


The wives Of the farmers of Mis-
souri, are getting so Industrious and
thrifty that it is becoming a question
"hether they or their husbands are
contributing more to the prosperity OF
the State. They have stimulated +ha
activity Of the Missouri hen mill that
valuable member of barnyard society
IS almost laying gold dollars, and now
they are making the Missouri COW MO-
comphsh results that would have as
founded her ancestors. Here for in
stance, Is Mrs. Anna GOWN. of Pom
lar Bluff, who, without, perhaps, being
the champion dairy woman Of the
State, Is doing an amount Of business
IN this line sufficient to keep her and
her husband comfortably without 9th
er resources. II kept account of the
MIX ana butter we sold last year."
Mrs. Gown writes to her mother. Mrs.
W. ii. Boulder, Of Farber, beginning
the LIST of last May, and by the LIST
or this month we had sold 2,19O gal.
Ions of milk and 1,439 pounds Of but-
ter. We got % cents O pound for all
the butter and 10 cents gallon for
the milk. Charlie Dayault is always
Dragging about how much the Audrain
women sell, but l don't think anv of
them can beat that on milk and but
ter" Probably not. Mrs. GOWNS re-
ceipts from milk and butter were
$o78.7o, or almost $4825 per month.
They show how much the farmers of
Missouri have lost by not giving the
Missouri COW the chance and encour-
agement she serves.-Kansas City
Journal
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
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- EhXg7 Ezzl,syS.,.sE "
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The investment in the government
printing Office is $2,429, 900.
One factory has marketed 10000 cleo
trical fatirons this season.
The Democratic Labor Union in Ma
Mia has a membership of $4,000.
In shipbuilding, Pennsylvania stands
first and New York second, while Cali
fornia is a good third.
Returns of British trades unions show
a gradual decrease of unemployed mem
bers in the engineering trades.
Although one-fourth of the worlds SUI
gar crop is consumed in the United
States, but one-twentieth of it is grown
here.
Ar Industrial census Of Bohemia shows
that of its 2,006,OO0 population of 469,-
327 are engaged in manufactures and o.t
these POI, $50 are women. Most of +
work is done by hand and at home. &C
The Chicago Printers Union has TAX
en- steps to increase its members bene-
fits. The union now sets aside $3.50
month, from which sum every member
who for twenty years has been a con-
tributing member of the union, and is
physically unfit for work, will receive a
pension Of So a week.
Skilled labor in Indiana controlled by
corporations average S2.43 day and I'M
skilled labor $133, boys II cents, girls
and women 90 cents.
New York City viii no longer take it's
refuse to sea and dump it, but will make
it into briquettes, with bituminous f1ux,
which will probably be burned in a mu-
nicipa lighting plant.
Publishers of San Francisco dailies
have entered into an agreement with the
Newspaper Writer'S Union Of that city,
chartered by the International Typo
graphical Union, and providing for a
minimum wage scale.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03

Years ago the writer par
$3.50 in the work Of laying
aud acl trees in autumn and
|lessed tlem in various ways to
mid lem through the winter and
g eles This plan has been tried in
~ rays almost every year, and
49,. rays with success. In a sea-
Il aha he present one, when peaches
al IN be rarity, any scheme of
Getting lie fruit buds through the
eeord- Tnther is especially attract
sihess v. Paddock has recently
49, tie success of several grow
Nous parts Of Colorado who
ii pTacticing this method.
haS;s / profitable as a CONNER
has IRE. 1t looks like an i'm
some !,y 10 be sure, to lay down
an ho lilly cover a fruiting tree
sssaaT but it has been shown re-
as 49, that i is perfectly feasible.
"a Il use IS only about 10 or Is
Harm. ree and even a dozen good
VII almost cover the COST
Gentleman.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
u.s. New Road Material.

Roadways of tar-macadam have
hoan In successful use for some years
in Southern Ontario. The cost IS from
ona-third TO one-half that of asphalt or
yitrifed brick. it is more enduring than
either, and appears 20 stand well the
wear and tear Of heavy teamlng.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
Leaps Against the Doctors Knife.

Leaping from an operating table at st.
Luke's hospital in Racine, James Had
ding of Keokuk, Iowa, who was under
going an operation for throat trouble,
nearly met death on the knives the sur
geons were using. Hadding was given
chloroform, but the operation took longer
than was expected. The physicians for
got to keep the patient under the anes-
thetic, and in the middle Of the opera
ton he recovered consciousness.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
Whaaf for Eggs.

Wheat con tains n larger per cent oi
aIbumen than any other grain, and for
tbis reason is one of the best grains TO
feed for egg production. It should
not be made an exclusive ration, now
eyer,-Commercial Poultry.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
The Ant Nuisance.

Ant hillocks on lawns dull the lawn
mower and injure the SOD. olaAeu
lime or kerosene will drive most OF
them away, and little bisulphIde OF
carbon poured into each hillock ana
covered over with the loose earth VIII
clear them out thoroughly. For ants
in the house, rat poison in molasses
will kill a lot of them, and the rest
will take the hint and leave.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
A Kettle Swing.

An exceedingly simple yet conven-
lent hanger for a kettle is shown. Let
a represent post 4x36 inches; a
piece 3x4 edgewise, with a three-quar
ter-inch bolt through it and the post,
so b can turn easily; is a small iron
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
Loose Bolts.

On plows. wheel holes. wagon frames
and the like, where the jolt and strain
comes directly against the bolt, 1t IS
hard to keep them tight, Take OH the
Jolt and increase friction by using an
iron washer with a leather washer IN
der il. Turn very tight.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
Chnna Off His Foot,

Mike Polda, a farmer, chopped off halt
of his right foot accidentally while cut
ting fence posts on his farm near Patch
Grove. The blow split the bones from
the toes to and through the ankle. The
left foot was badly mangled in a horse
power a few years ago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
Farm Notes,

arm Notes.
@9.>ten commercial fertiliz-
7 sowing them on a windy
az W." prevent no inconsider-
Is the liner PARTICLES of avail
' ,eoO may be frequently
4, distances. This is a prac-
Y r. q, great Importance.
]. sd g, crops and the manner of
j determine the profit. While
i ~1,< barely SubSist on a farm
I >'."D acres, it Is not difficult
: % make small farms of only
Il pay There are some sec
.~'v4 a tWenty-acre farm is
large one, and yet such
Wei and their owners are
u labor may be made In
Vi " frequently using the
- Young weeds may be east
''~ u passing the rake be
'v"S, While by allowing the
.S~'~in until we'll rooted a
W necessary. Economy of
"a ASep.ng weeds and grass
~7.s seeds terminate, which
~e 'a~k easier.
>%e annual and biennial
., .~~ '~c perennials for perma-
-'', especially if the soil be
'.l~4e>> and moisture. The
I VIZ make but little herbage
! "4ee Years, because their
ar 10 establish strong
l. .'~ LIN on the contrary,
ss-. .''S Io)tS; their growth is
!. ground, and what re-
'~S~ supplies some food aud
-, 'y Of farms has many
> ~ Which are not known
~sHn F3,., "
a, '"Ein> are the rule. The
d - '5''er cultivated and cared
~, .~e Whole section bears a
=. appearance. Neighbors
5, al" generally of the most
|. day.. s'~>S> While roads are bet
s., les, SchoOlhouses, stores
(. l,"'enIcnces necessary to
a.. ~'aAeed civiliza ton are
'0>' which advantages can
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03
High School Athletics Pay.

Under the system Of graduate manage
ment of high school athletics in vogue
ut GAINESVILLE the financial report entered
For the past year shows balance on
&and, when past years have produced as
>eraafa deficit. Coach w. 3. Norris, an
instructor, has had entire financial con-
troll
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03

George Wheeler of Milwaukee kept his
savings in a tin can. His wife cleaned
house recently and threw the can into
the alley. Later she remembered that
if had been used as a savings bank ana
FASTENED to recover it. She found the
can, but the money, about $40, was MISS
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03

III stock Waterer'
b. :'s' Sor Dnra a source of sup
e at hand for watering aans
L pumped into an open
=. ;. avnosed for any length
y ~ becomes polluted and
~ w. animals to drink. This
!. u. .sa ease, according to the
Z. .ro stock-watering ap-
). shovn is put into use.
g., ..,. +. furnished to the tank
NV r.trcb this fountain is at
y u. GAINED that there is no
rrf,1 the animal that Is
an make it foul. The wa
..-. of a double drinking
=, n east iron, which is at
IN on+side of a tank or bar
:, inside is another chamber,
, which is a brass float and
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-07-03

De the more easily and conveniently
enjoyed.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27
THE FIRST COTTON MILL.
Mrs. Ramage Introduced Cotton Spin
ming Into South Carolina.

Mrs. Ramage Introduced Cotton Spin.
ming Into South Carolina.
Now that the increasing number of
southern mills attracts attention, it is
interesting to know that one of the
first factories for making cotton cloth
in the south, If not the very first, was
started by a woman.
In 1889 Mrs. Ramage. the widow Of
planter In South Carolina, started q
manufacturing plant on James island,
near Charleston.
There is no sign of cotton factory
on James island today. The island is
more remarkable for the starting Of
early cabbages, green peas and melons
than for plants of large growth. 1t is
known locally as Jim" island and
"Jeems" island. And members of
dusky vendors who keep their boats by
the city shore row over to James to
bring back the seasons delicacies.
But the island certainly had great
ambitions a century and more ago.
and had for resident a woman who,
had she lived among affairs of today,
would be described as new"
A Charleston paper of the date Jan.
"a, 1889, had these paragraphs con-
, corning the new enterprise:
at is with genuine pleasure we
mention that Mrs. Ramage has com
menced the manufacture of cotton
cloth on James island. We sincerely
hope she will meet with that en-.
couragement and support which will
enable her to carry on the manu-
facture to such an extent as may
induce others to follow so industrious
and laudable an example and which
may render in few years the i'm
portation of manufactures almost ur
necessary.
at Is so obvious to the discerning
that the raw materials can be raised
in this state on preferable terms Il
others that ii must seem surprising
that manufactures of various kind;
are not now adopted. as they certain!!
would be more advantageous to th'
citizens at large than any other specie
of speculation"
1t is far cry from the time OF thi
primitive island factory to the con
ditions that exist now. History ha
4 kept the secret of the pioneer woman
business, and its success or failure
not chronicled. Even the name o
Y Ramage has died out in that particula
y vicinity and is identified with othe
states and places, 1t is not know
whether there was child lator in thi
woman's mill, or what quality of good
she turned out. But she made brav
innovation at time when such effor
was notable.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27

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