Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-15
One Hundred Thousand Doll-rs
to Improve Court Rooms
the Beginning.
THE SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS
Handbook of Agriculture Is Interest
ing to Farmers-Indiana Women
to Hunt Our Deer.

state house provided for at the last ses-
sion of the legislature, it looks as
| though the initial steps had been taken
for a new capitol for Wisconsin. Six
have been chosen to serve on that COM
mittee-Justice John B. Wiuslow Of
the supreme court; Justice F.. D. Mar
shall, H. w. ChynOweth of Madison;
Edwin L. Reynolds, Milwaukee,; 0. H.
Ingram, Eau Claire; John A. Van
| Cleve, Marinette This body is en-
powered to select and pass on plans
for the enlargement of the supreme
court quarters, not to cost over $780,
900. These plans are to be so drawn,
it is understood, as to provide for the
rebuilding of the entire capitol, the
addition being so planned as to con-
form to the proposed new structure.
| A law enacted at the last session of
| the legislature provides for the sale
of state lands to the amount of $40, 600
acres According to the report of the
| commissioner of public lands for 1900
Oneida county had the largest acreage
-3S,O26-while ManitowOc and Fond
| du Lac have the least of any. The
sale is to begin Oct. Is and Nov. 10
next. In counties where there are L.
900 acres, the sale will take place in
the county. The same law provides
for the appointment of superinten-
dent of forestry who is to receive
salary of $1,000 year.
Bankers of Wisconsin.
The bankers of the state met in
convention in Milwaukee last week.
Congressman Fowler of New Jersey
and ex-Comptroller of the Currency
Eckles were debating the assets cur
rency proposition, in which discussion
| A. J. Frame of Waukesha shared. He
and Eckles opposed the plan-which is
to allow banks to issue currency not
only on government bonds but on other
holdings. The convention did not de-
clare formally on this dispute, but did
| declare against branch banking. Con
gresham Fowler, as a graduate OF
President Hadley's class at Yale c76),
| taught school and studied law after
| leaving college, out west part of the
| time, and then entrenched himself in
New Jersey. Of late he has made
great deal of money in interpretations,
and in forming one of the big trusts.
The new president Of the state associa-
ton is John M. Holley of Lacrosse.
The next convention will be held in
that city.
| In the last blue book is list of
| twenty new state banks, all with $25,
| 900 capital also eighteen new private
banks, with capital ranging from 49,,
600 to $4,000, and one (Hayward) to
$4,000. There are in al about $50
banks, state and private, to which, of
course, must be added national banks.
These banks do an enormous business.
The liabilities of the national banks
in Milwaukee alone amount to SAB,
| 100000, of which $27 100000 are indi-
vidual deposits. The total liabilities
of all the banks of the state, national,
state and private, are nearly $2O0,000,-
| 900. nearly $40 per capita. So we see
the Importance of wise banking and of
encouraging the industry that makes
all others possible.
The Merciful Putting to Sleep.
| A monument is to be erected at
Sacket's Harbor to Samuel Guthrie.
who is credited with having discovered
chloroform 1t is to take the form of
a forty-ton boulder It makes one
thoughtful to recall that until a COM
paratively late day QS5D the human
race knew not the alternating use of an
aesthesia Sure it is one of Gods
| best gifts to man. And yet, even in
Dane county, where intelligence and
the open mind are supposed to be,
there is to be found prejudice against
| chlOrofOrm TO an extent that deprives
even those in anguish of it's aid Not
withstanding for many years the most
successful practitioners used it with
out hurt in childbirth and like crises,
there are physicians, usually in the
country, who would not give the suf-
fering it's help. There is an ignorant
prejudice that runs close to crime.
Living in the twentieth century, every
man. woman and child is entitled to it's
benefits Men and physicians of for
eign births and ideas longest hug the
prejudice. And yet there are physi-
clans who have delivered hundreds and
thousands of children, who invariably
use chlorOform.
Tobacco Disappoints Some Farmers.
The farmers of Wisconsin are inter-
ested in the talk of the sugar beet,
especially in Dane and Rock counties,
where they are mostly tobacco growers
and are used to employing labor. In
this tobacco region the farmers find
that tobacco is extremely hard on the
soil and for an average of ten years
the crop does not exceed $50 an &C E.
A tobacco field has to be heavily fer
tilted too: not so in the case of the
sugar beet. Another point also in ia
vor of the sugar beet is that wind and
hail storms do not effect the plants so
! badly There is only one good sized
beet sugar factory in this state and
that is at MenOmOnee Falls, in the
eastern part. In the Chippewa val.
ley, where once the towering pine was