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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-05
DISCOVERY OF COBALT.
New Mineral Resource Which Has
Doubled Ore Values in an
Idaho County.

"The accidental discovery of cobalt
in Lemhi county ores has proved of
interest to my section said L. G..
Slater, of Boise City, Idaho, recently
reports the Washington Star.
''The presence of cobalt and nickel
in the copper ores of this camp had
been discovered by mining men, but
the importance of the minerals was
not fully realized until recently.
''The sale of group of claims in
the district has revived interest, which
has suffered from the effects of the
slump in copper prices.
"The Black Bird district has been
extensively developed and very large
ore bodies of copper-gold ores of
rather low grade have been exposed
The margin of values was regarded
as being below profitable working
limit under the present condition of
transportation facilities, and the camp
was in the list of dead camps, when
this discovery came as a spark of life
values to the recognized copper, gold
and. silver values of the millions of
tons of ore in this district gives to
Lemhi county a valuable asset. A
quarter of million of dollars has been
expended in development of the Black
Bird mines, which were in idleness,
because there was no apparent mar
gin of profit for any known scheme of
reduction.
SIT is now confidently asserted that
this discovery has added 100 per cent.
to the value of millions of tons of this
ore, which are already blocked out.
1t is claimed by those who are in a
position to know that an average of
five per cent. nickel and five per cent.
cobalt exists in the great bodies of
ore which are exposed in the old work
ings.
''These values occur in a sulphide
form, and these minerals can be saved
by simple methods of concentration
The nickel and cobalt occur in large
zones of schist slate without the
presence of iron in excessive quaint
ties, which can be reduced by inexpen-
sive machinery. A mining man who
recently Investigated this new mineral
resource believes the markets of the
world will be influenced by the ex-
cessive output of this district if the
whole field is ever developed to its
limits of production"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-05
The News Condensed.

Benjamin c. Rogers, a pioneer BUSH
ness man of Beloit, who had been
mayor, member of the board of edu-
cation, alderman and police justice,
died at the age OF so years in Pasa-
dena, Cal, where he went five years
ago because of i'll health. He had
large property interests in Beloit
Report of the special committee
appointed by the county board to in
vestigate and adopt plans for new
courthouse has been decided upon
and will be submitted to the board
at the coming spring session in Mani
towoc. The recommendation will be
for a $135,OOO building
Fire destroyed the furniture store
of w Beerman at Gutenberg. The
Standard, Belt and Garnaville Tele-
phone companies also suffered.
Nelson Bahke and George o. I'm
derahl, wealthy stockmen of Rio,
blew out the gas in their room at the
Manhattan hotel in Chicago and came
near losing their lives.
A camp of Sons of Veterans has been
organized at Waukesha.
A falling porch crushed the life out
of Sylvester Monson in Ashland, aged
five years.
The annual banquet of Superior
lawyers was held at the Superior hotel,
so bling present.
Sebastian Zirer, aged so, an inmate
of the Sheboygan poorhouse, was run
over and fatally injured.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dittman, ana Mrs.
Marie Miller, probably the Oldest liv-
ing twins in Milwaukee, celebrated the
eightY-third anniversary of their birth.
Plans are already being made in Mad
ison for state fisheries exhibit at the
St. Louis Worlds fair which VIII sur
pass anything ever before attempted
in that line.
William Nicholson, of Hayton, has,
although he is over 20 years of age. IN
the last six years cut five new teeth.
AS soon as one of the original grinders
is removed, a new one makes its APP
pearance.
Mrs. Minnie Lark, aged 50 years, wifi e
of prominent farmer near La CROSSE,
was burned to death in her bed. The
bedding is thought to have caught fire
from stove that was near by.
Sixty thousand dollars worth CT
shingles and, excelsior were burned
at Menasha. The fire was caused by
sparks from a locomotive
A fire in the S.anck marble works
in la Crosse caused several tbouSa1d
dollars damages.
Mons Anderson. of ba Crosse. the
''dry goods king" and once rated as a
millionaire, has been served with
papers intended to force him into bank
ruptcy.
The Home of the Friendless in She
noygan has been enriched by about
5000 through the masque ball given by
the charity societies of the city.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-05
CORN-COB SIDEWALKS.
Man from Iowa Tells of Novel
scheme Adopted by Grain
shipping Towns.

Because of the cob-pipe industry
Missouri has the reputation of being
the greatest corn-cob state in the
union, but Iowa has got its southern
neighoor beat when it comes to put
ting cobs to novel uses" said man
from Keokuk the other day, according
TO a Chicago paper. did you ever
hear of corn-cob sidewalks? Never
did? Well, sir, / made trip through
out big part of the state of Iowa
recently, and I found several grain
shipping towns that had corn-cob side
walks.
I'm spite of what one would think
about it cobs make a pretty good
walk. They are a little rough at first,
but when the cobs become trampled
down the walk is smooth. II is more
springy than a cinder path and wa
ter will not stand in little pools in
the low places.
From some of the little railroad
towns hundreds of thousands of bush
els of corn are shipped each year. The
grain is shelled at the local elevators
and as there is little demand for the
cobs for fuel they are carried in a
spout to a place some distance from
the elevator and allowed to form in
a huge pile. In order to get rid of
them they are generally burned. A
year or two ago somebody discovered
that they made a pretty good walk
and now they are being utilized in
many places"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-05

In Commerce and Subsequent
Investments James NJ Constable,
Henry g. Marquand, Adrian Iselin, Jo-
seph Millbank. of New York; Marshall
Field, L. Il. Letter, Potter Palmer, of
Chicago.
In Sugar Refning-H. o. Havemey-
er, of New York; Claus Spreckels, of
San Francisco; John Searles, Of New
York
In Banking and Other Investments
Darius o. Mills, J. Pierpont Morgan, of
New York
BY Inheritance and from the Tele-
phone--J. Malcolm Forbes, of Boston.
In Mining. B. Haggin, of Califor-
MIA; Mrs. George Hearst, of San Fran
cisco; w. A. Clark, of Montana; Mar
Gus DAILY, of Montana.
In Iron and Steel-Andrew Carnegie,
of New York.
In Steamboat, River and Lake Trans
portation-Alfred Van STANFORD, of
New York; NJ. A. Hanna, of Cleve-
land.
In Packing-Philip D. Armour, Of
Chicago.
If Americans would only be willing
to have their own college of heraldry,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-05
WHERE THE KAISER RULES.

The number of trusts in Germany
exceeds 400.
Germany has on an average SOC
orchard trees to the square mile. OF
these, there are 332 plum, PSI apple,
119 pear, and 104 cherry.
The manufacture of glass in Ger.
many has become thriving industry.
The number of factories has reached
400 and they give employment to
about $4,000 workmen.
There was recently held in Ger
many competitive exhibition of the
work of journeymen shoemakers. In
the United States the cutter is the
only skilled workman in the shoe in
dustry.
The kaiser has turned his atten-
ton to domestic science and expelled
from the royal palace all the pet
animals and birds. His royal high
ness surmised that they might en-
terrain microbes.
Germany has built the finest, fastest
vessels afioat although she is not geo.
graphically maritime country and no
other country is so largely dependent
on Others for the raw materials which
enter into the making of a ship.
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1rOck coat. croker feprONed MIN.
1.-The trut' is, Mr.. Croker" said the
counselor, 81 heard of the orr-rder
rather late, an by that time ! cudden't
hire a dhress suit in town. The byes
had 'em ALL"
Doblin, whose testimony in Washing
ton in a case of alleged bribery so
amazed the country, is an example of
the typical New York ward politician
upon the other side of the fence. The
Holland Submarine Boat company,
which is concerned in the allegations,
has now little to do with Holland, the
inventor, himself. He is the soul of
honor and the mirror of gentleness-a
quiet voiced, old-fashioned schoolmas-
ter, whose face is a guarantee of char
acter and an index of the enthusiasm
that sustained him through his eleven
years fight to make his invention go"
His only connection with the company
is that of consulting engineer" who
by his own account is never consulted.
A different man from Doblin was
Judge Pat" Diver, who has just been
gathered to his fathers.
Pat was the best known East slider.
He was the owner of several saloons
and of plenty of money. His was a
generous fist, ever open for charity,
never long closed against foe. He had
no education and cid not think like
Sullivan that he would be "a better
congressman than Dan Webster" 1t
was his ambition to be a judge-and
he achieved it, at what cost will never
be known. True, his bench was that
of a police court but from it he dis
pensed rude justice whose essential
value was seldom called in question.
Diver knew his people.
The man had another title to fame
He was once the champion beefsteaIi
eater of the city. The uneducated men
who in his heyday held the power had
few intellectual pleasures. They were
like the miner returning with his pile,
who shaved off by ordering $50 worth
of ham and eggs. If beefsteak is good,
more is better. Eating contests were
held in political clubs where half-raw
meat was cut in slices and eaten with
the fingers. Mayor Van Wyck's record
was seven pounds and a fraction; Div.
ver's a fraction under II pounds. This
was afterward beaten by a statesman
whose name / have forgotten, though
his proud achievement was ID pounds
So transitory is fame!
Diver died out of power and only SIS
years old. Ward politics demands vic
tins.
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GOOD WESTERN ENGLISH.
Only Part of the United States That
Gives the ar" Its Real
Xalue.

That which the rest of the country
accepts as the standard of correct pro-
nunciation, though seldom attaining
it, characterizeS th& speech of the ma
jority of the (people of the west. The
west is the only section that does not
badly misuuse r., says Leslie's Weekly.
1t is perhaps incorrect to say the
east and south misuse r. They hardly
use it at all. In the east and many
parts of the south r is, in effect, an
auxiliary vowel except at the begin
ming of words. 1t merely lengthens the
preceding vowel. Occasionally it re-
ceives a distinct vowel sound, that of
Italian A.
In many parts of the south it is not
heard at all. While the Georgian says
''befoah," his Alabama neighbors say
"befo'," deposing r from its position
a a vowel, or vowel modifier.
In the west, r is sounded with an ap-
proXima tion of correctness. Yet even
the westerners do not give it its full
value, as do the Irish and Scotch. Their
strong enunciation of the letter sounds
harsh to US, yet the letteris intended to
be pronounced and its use differenti-
ates words liable to be confused by the
ear.
The Anglo-Saxon seems to be doing
his best to depose r. Were it not for
the influence of the Irish and Scotch,
r would not be little more than a writ
ten letter, as silent as initial H in Span
iSh
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u L u a
loaves, bags of Had to Swim
money, a telephone receiver, Jumps Of
ore, steel rails, a portly pig. But none
of these folk have the courage to do
it, they needs must flock over to Eng
land and unearth the ghost of some
legendary lord or squire.
Yet if Senator Wellington's amend
ment were to be accepted, and the poor
millionaire not allowed to add an eX-
ira penny to his ten millions, how long
would his family be counted great,
how long would it form part of the
American aristocracy? Back in the
simple days of the revolution, fam
lily could sustain considerable state
with a fortune of a, few hundred thou
sands; but not so to-day, when vari-
Gus magnificent establishments, with
retinue of servants at each, a yacht
and other costly toys, are essentials.
No, the fortune of ten millions would
soon dwindle, and the family sink to
the level of the commonplace.
1t is interesting to look back over
different periods in our country's his
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find John Jacob Astor with his fur
trading enterprises and the great adj
ditions to his wealth he made by in
vestments in land in New York. AS
tor amassed the largest fortune that
up to that time had been made by any
American. In 1848, the year of his
death, his estate was estimated at $780,
OOO, 900. A. r. Stewart, whose realiza-
ton of woman's mania for shopping
led to the growth of his great dry
goods establishment, built up a for
tune which. at his death in 1876, was
valued at $50,OOO,00O.
But the wealth of Aston and of Stew
art was far outrivalled by that of Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, whose gigantic
steamboat and railroad enterprises en-
abled him to leave behind, when his
earthly career came to an end in 1887,
an estate valued at $90,000,000. Even
to-day $9O,O0OOO0 seems quite re-
spectacle accumula for one man,
although several of the multimillion-
aires of the present need three figures
where with to number their millions.
KATHERINE POPE.
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lndJ - WHAT
their successors are doing now.
few weeks ago the firm bought from
the receivers of~the Blakely Hall out
fit a fashy, ten-cent magazine which
they wanted as the basis of a venture
in that field. With it, because the
receiver refused to sell separately,
they acquired sporting daily. This
they have now issued in bigger and
gayer form as perhaps the sportiest
publication of its sort in the world.
Meanwhile Mr.. Munsey waits and
considers what to do with his three
newspapers-New York News, Bos
ton Journal, Washington Times. He
is ''layin' low" for the campaign of
1904. If he gets in good fighting trim
by then he will be satisfied.
Those associated with Mr.. Munsey
DENY the persistent rumor that j.
Pierpont Morgan is backing him.
They say he needs no backer and
that he plans ''chain" of newspa-
pers in different cities that will make
Mr.. Pulitzer with his two and Mr..
Hearst with his three 'sit up
1t is not strange that the rumor
goes that Morgan is backing Munsey.
That the former is behind five great
publications in New York alone is a
matter of common knowledge. But
so far as / know, he is not yet con-
cerned in any daily newspaper-ex-
cept the sporting sheet already men
toned. That must be said to have
Morgan, trustee of the Harper re-
organization, as its ultimate power.
Queer situation!
OWEN LANGDON.
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MetrIcaI Feet.

"Ah!' he sighed ecstatically, as he
whirled her round the room in the
sensuous measure of the waltz music,
dancing is truly the poetry OF mo-
ton
eyes" she answered, as he trod on
her very particular corn, especially
when the poet knows how to manage
his feet. brooklyn Eagle.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS
Lived over a Century.

Mrs. Julia Duplice, aged 103 years.
died at the home of her daughter in
Chippewa Falls. Had she lived until
March % she would have been 104
years old. Mrs. Duplice was born
at ST. Rock, Canada, in 1899, and came
to Chippewa Falls in 1867, where she
has since resided. She became blind
at the age Of 80 years, but her health
remained good until a few weeks ago.
Mrs. Duplice always insisted that her
remarkable age was due to the fact
that she had always refrained from
eating beef, preferring cold boiled
pork.
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mayor. The latest son TO step forward
is Frank Croker, the pride of the house
of he man who said on the witness
stanL that he was in politics for my
own pocket all the time"-an utterance
that will live as long as Tweed's What
are you going to do about it?'
Young Croker is a clean-shaven,
bright-eyed, rather athletic looking
fellow. He has not the sturdy physique
that brought his father to the fore in
the ''gashouse gang" by sheer power of
fists; he has what his father had not,
a fair education and knowledge of the
world acquired while he is yet young
He has power by circumstance.
Frank recently ordered that the old
sessions of the Democratic club should
recommence. was ludicrous to see
democrats of thrice his years tumble
over their Own feet in their haste to-
obey the boys orders. You see, they
do not know. Young Croker may be
cit" and he may not. 1t isn't safe to
take chances. Perhaps the senior Gro
ker has deputed him as boss by proxy.
Such terrors as these possibilities in
spire may be laughable, but they are
real. There are plenty of political
heelers who have no hope or ambition
save to live by officeholding. These
men do not have "their ears to the
ground" They do not need to have.
They do keep both eyes on the boss
or upon him who may be boss. If the
senior Croker should die the junior
Croker could not for single day retain
the little court of sycophants who now
gather nightly about him in "the club"
X X X
The ways of the Politicians.
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on Fifth avenue.
Once when the
Van Wyck admin
istration was all
powerful the edict
went forth from
Croker that no one
must appear in
1.-The club" save in
evening dress. The
next night "Coun-
selor" Nolan, a
queer character
now dead, APP
peared in his GUS
1OmarV L u S 1 v
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measures. One Of the latest brought
to notice was the introduction by Sen
ator Wellington of an amendment to
the constitution prohibiting the hold
ing Of fortune exceeding $10,000.00o
by any one individual in the United
States. For the millionaires with pos
sessions above the limit, the amend
ment provided that 1.-The excess shall
all be condemned, whether or not as
a public nuisance, public folly, or
public peril, and be accordingly for
feited into the United States treasury"
Have we so many very wealthy citi-
zens that it is necessary the legisla-
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Novel Bridal TOur.

Former President NJ. j. Magin, of
the Building Trades council, contem-
plates a honeymoon trip of two
years. With his bride, to whom he
will be married in Milwaukee next
spring, he will travel through every
state in the union. The couple are
to start without a cent in their peck
cts, earn their living on the way and
come back with five dollars. If they
fill the conditions they will win
wager of $4,000.
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Indians Sell Lands.

Recent sales of lots on the Oneida
Indian reservation to white men are
arousing discussion among people in
terested in Indian affairs, the gen
eral opinion being that these sales
mark the first steps in the absorb
ton of the precincts Of the red man
by white farmers. The sales were
negotiated by heirs of the Oneidas
to whom the lands were allotted. The
heirs desire to enter lines of business
they consider more profitable than
farming.
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tors seek to limit
The extentto which
they may gather
to t h e III S e " e ;
riches? Let us. in
vestigate, if but
hurri e d Iy an d
specifically.
Mr.. John Gilmer
Speed in Ainslie's
Magazine, gives us
intere sting infor-
nation regarding
our American men
and women o {
enormous. wealth,
-.
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that which OBJ
tanned in Phila-
delphia a year
ago when mil
lionaire O w n err $
w e r e struggling
for the mastery.
What would the
founders of Har-
per g. Bros. have
said to the prop
osition that they
should issue a
fla shy sporting
paper?
That iS what
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Train Wrecked.

Contraction of rails, due to intense
cold, is believed to have caused the
destruction of a special freight train
going south on the Northwestern
road near Kewaskum. The fireman
of the train was killed and the en-
gineer and brakeman were injured
and died soon afterwards.
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a piano and called it cheap at that;
another $1,000 for an old engraving.
In a perfectly proper way the city
itself helps on the general talk of
millions. BY Encouragement of the
assessment schedules upon Full
value" basis the limit of legal debt
expenditure has been raised in tins
single year by $140,000,000. The city
prepares to spend the money we'll and
wisely, on such scale of magniti-
cence as was never yet seen in
America.
All the world wondered when it
was announced that the city was to
spend $35,00O,000 upon a rapid tran
sit railroad and it was illustrated in
the weekly journals of Europe as an
instance Of American enterprise!
Little attention is paid to the $50,
900 which the city is now to spend
upon additions to the system.
1t will pay. So with the vast
scheme for new municipal building
which is to cost some $30,000000
more. This will beautify the city
greatly, and will be an economy, as
more than the interest Of that sum
is spent in rent for office room in
private buildings. Still, it sounds
big, doesn't it?
The group of buildings when com
pleted will be almost as impressive
as the capitol in Washington, and
something upon the same architectu-
raj order The new hall of records,
approaching completion at a cost of
some $6,0OO,0OO, will be one wing Of
the completed group, and its cost
must be added to the figure above.
X X x
The Newspaper Situation.
The newspaper situation in New
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uel Thomas, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Will
liam X. Vanderbilt, Frederick w. Van
derbilt, George W. Vanderbilt, Mrs.
William d. Sloane, William c. Whitney,
of New York; John l. Blair, of New
Jersey.
In Producing, Refining and Selling
Petroleum John d. Archbold, Henry
NJ. Flagler, John H. Flagler, H. H.
Rogers, William Rockefeller, John D..
Rockefeller, of New York; Oliver H.
Payne, of Cleveland.
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or SO used to pity MIR. Dana, because
at his age he had TO stand for hours
at hat frame and bow to flushed and
unsteady diners. He was satisfied,
however.
The fortune the coat man left was
small by comparison with the posi-
bilities of a waiter in a fashionable
restaurant. Some of these men die
worth their hundreds of thousands,
helped by lucky investments pointed
out by patrons in moments of good
nature. And of these flush patrons
how many will die poor?7
The tip system is lodged upon New
York. 1t is nowhere in the world SO
expensive to the public who pay.
You can give two cents to the wait
er in a cheap Paris eating house and
be treated with civility. In New
York nothing under ten cents would
be accepted anywhere. Walters often
turn up their noses at anything less
than quarter, though it is 'rula-
BILE" to offer ten per cent. of the bill
The old English rule was n penny in
shilling, or about eight per cent;
the French sou in the franc or five
per cent.
A dinner to three or four in fash
ionable restaurant costs from $40 up
ward, according to the hosts econ
omy. It the change" is less than
two dollars the waiter is apt 20 get
it. OF course this is absurd but
X X \
Giddy with the Talk Of millions.
But the very air is poisoned with
the talk of millions; it is giddy with