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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15

| Brazil practically conceded to Bolivia
| the latter's claims to the disputed
area-prObably with the idea that the
matter was not worth quarrelling
about any longer. Then came Brazil's
awakening to the fact that the Acre
country is very valuable; that it has
| thousands of miles of rubber trees
| that promise perhaps to make the
region a formidable rival to the fa-
nous Para rubber district, from
which the worlds purest rubber is
obtained. Bolivia and Peru were
awakened at the same time. All three
states began to show such "a vigorous
renewed interest that it was very APP
parent that all previous agreements
and concessions were looked upon as
null and void by the governments MAX
ing them except as they benefited
themselves. The awakening of the
three republics came about in pc
culiar way and the incident makes bit
of romantic history. This is the story
of it:
At some time previous to December,
1899, a certain baseball player in the
City of Mexico who had become tired
of ball playing as a means of livelihood,
drifted down into Bolivia with the
half uniformed notion of getting into
some paying enterprise in new coun-
try. He was an adventurous man and
stories that came to his ears concern
ing the mysterious Acre country con-
WINGED him that the region was just his
sort of stamping ground. He soon had
a following of comrades who, after
hearing his suggestions that they form
an expedition and penetrate the coun-
try, readily agreed to accompany him.
There were men from Punta de Avunas,
Alaska, Lisbon, CadiZ, London, Paris,
all of them adventurous spirits, who,
whatever they undertook, could not
become more penniless and adrift than
they were already. They were with
out the means thoroughly to equip and
arm themselves, but they prepared as
best they could and plunged into the
forest They toiled through hun
dreds of miles of Iuxuriant tropical for
ests, compelled much of the time to cut
their way step by step with knives and
hatchets through the dense under
brush, vines and foliage, of forests that
had never been disturbed by man.
They were in constant danger from
falling trees, which crashed about
them as they went, for in tropical for
ests that have been undisturbed it is
inevitable that there should be many
trees on the point of collapse. They
forded rivers, became entangled in
swamps. They fought sickness, fever,
wild beasts and native tribes. but at last
established themselves on the Aquiry
river and began to make rubber. The
woods, they discovered, were rich in
rubber trees.
1t is not particularly difficult to
make rubber; itdoes not require long
scientific process. One needs to take
from civilization only a knife that is
electro-plated to keep it from rusting
in the damp atmosphere, a small ak
and perhaps some tin cups, though the
latter are not necessary. 1t was there
fore a simple matter for the adven-
turers to start out making rubber.
Having built themselves cabins they
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15

DIRESTIONS.-For tying tie, bow or
scarf with the aid of these photographs
set the page up by the side of a mirror
and let your hands make the same move
ments in the mirror as the hands Of the
man in the photographs.
Remember that the man appears in the
photographs exactly as you do in the mir
ror; /. e., his right hand is on the left Of
the photograph, and vice versa.
There is nothing that goes to make
or to mar a 3an's appearance so much
as the tie he wears and the way he ties
it. Really well-dressed men regard the
ready-made article, however cleverly
counterfeited, as the height Of bad
form, as indeed it is. The madc-up tie
may be neat, but it is always tame.
Fashion and good taste by no means
go always hand in hand; but the pre-
sent day decree that the made-up dress
bow is the worst Of form is most right
eous. Fashion, for instance, says that
jtismore tolerable to appear in badly
arranged bow tie by the wearer than in
a neat but ready-made substitute.
The reason doubtless is that man
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15
The News Condensed.

The new management at the state
| school for the blind at GAINESVILLE has
| gone into effect, Prof. c. r. Showal-
| ter, the newly elected uperintendent,
| assuming charge.
The Elgin Creamery company at
Madison has offered to settle with
creditors at 40 cents on the dollar.
DR.. Otto Fielder, chemist of the Mil
waukee health department, confirms
the theory that lemon juice viii kill
typhoid fever germs, and says it can
be used as a preventive of the dis
ease.
Three miners lost their lives in the
Windsor mine at Hurley. They were
descending into the mine, riding on
the skip, and lost their balance, fall
ing 600 feet.
Christian Barber, aged "a years, of
Greenfield, was given a coal stove for
Christmas present, and, not under
standing how to regulate it, was suffo-
Gated by the fumes.
Henry Hamilton Hayden, aged 81
years, and known throughout the
state as an able lawyer, was found
dead in bed at Eau Claire. ApopleXy
was the cause of death.
In an encounter between n posse of
Eagle citizens and gang of four bur
glars and safe blowers, four miles
from Eagle, one robber was shot prob
ably fatally, one was captured and
the other two escaped.
The Edward Hines Lumber company
announces sales of lumber for 1903 de-
livery, to be sawed at Ashland, of 3d.,
100000 feet, to eastern and Chicago
men.
Miss Lulu Livermore, daughter of
G. d. Livermore, a well-known baker,
at Neenah, and Theodore Larson,
barber, eloped to MenOminee, Mich,
where they were married.
The new city directory gives Osh-
kosh population of 32,086, and the
city is now second in population in the
state.
Capt. Joseph Ankli, of the fishing
tug Hoffman, was lost in midlake off
Kenosha. A sudden lurch of the tug
threw him overheard and he sank be-
fore the tug could put about and get
him.
Arne Arneson, prominent citizen
Of Spring Valley, was instantly killed
by the falling of tree. He was mer-
chant, village assessor and school
clerk.
While funeral services were being
held in the Methodist church at Marsh
field over the remains of G. A. Lupient,
an old soldier, a defective furnace set
fire to the floor directly under the
casket. A rush for the doors was
made, and the coffin was carried out
over the seats.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Rhine
lander $12, 500 for library building on
The usual conditions.
Matthias Kappellan, a shoe dealer at
Neillsville, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy with the clerk of the United
States court here. He schedules his
liabilities at $4O,637 and his assets at
SLABS.
Charles William Stretch, one of the
oldest wagon makers in Wisconsin,
died at Oshkosh. He was born March
13, 1899, in the village of Sharneukau,
Germany.
Prof. A. j. Hutton, late of the James,
vile school for the blind, has taken
charge of the state industrial sshooI
for boys at Waukesha, succeeding
Prof. c. o. Merica, who resigned.
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tory Will be sent; that the expedition
which goes will start about Jan
uary 10.
The Acre dispute is being settled!
This seems almost past believing: for
the Acre country has long been sort
of buried bone which three dogs
Brazil, Bolivia and Peru-have each
had an interest in, but to which
neither has given much attention un-
less one of the others has showed a
disposition to dig it up.
a glance at the map of South
America will show the Acre district.
1t is that triangular piece in north
ern Bolivia; and the territory gets its
name from the Acre or Aquiry river
which rises in the region After en-
tering territory that is admittedly
Brazilian, this river joins the Purus,
which also has, its source in the Acre
territory, and the Purus river then
flows onward until it joins the Anna
zon.
The quarrel over the ownership of
this vague region of unknown re-
sources has been augmented at dif-
ferent times by various administra-
tiOns, only to be allowed to die down
again as minor conSidera ton. 1t
has even been 'settIed' before now,
only to break out anew when one of
the watch dogs suddenly awolle to
what it had lost by the peace bar
gain. TO be exact, in October, 1899,
an agreement was reached by which
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15

it's basement to the rapid transit line
which will be opened within a year;
other big apartment houses share this
advantage. You go from your room to
a restaurant on the roof, where 5000
people are daily fed, thence to gym
nasium in the basement, where YOU
can exercise under charge of ''profes-
sor;" thence to a barber shop, which
paws $4,000 rent per year, and thence
to your seat in the downtown train
without once having stepped out of
doors.
So from the Pennsylvania hotel one
can leave for any part of the United
States without getting out in the wet.
It will be a favorite staying place for
western people, just as the Grand
Union is now. This is practically a
railway hotel for the Central, though
to get to it you have to get across one
of the liveliest streets in the world.
I'd have to live in the city so years
longer before I'd get past shuddering
at that ordeal. OWEN LANGDON.
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Cuts Rate on Kisses.

Judge G. w. Burnell, in circuit court
in Oshkosh, cut down the price of
kisses fixed recently by Winnebago
jury. Ida Zachers, domestic, former
ly employed in the household of Miner
u. Ballou, wealthy mill owner of
Neenah, was some days ago given a
verdict of $500 for three kisses forci-
bly, snatched from her by Mr.. Ballou.
Judge Burnell cut down the amount
to $500, and judgment for that sum
was entered
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15

little difficulty; the best of care was
given him, and better risk as in
surance men would say, would have
been out long ago.
The younger generation of this
family does not seem to inherit much
physical stamina. The old commodore
was a giant, a great man mentally and
physically. William II. was too fat
and his life was cut off by apoplexy
caused by fit of anger. The Cornelius
of that generation was a failure as a
money-maker and an eccentric who
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15

from that office with no prospect of
getting the coveted senatorship, he
might as we'll attend to business and
let politics go. But who ever stopped
chasing the rainbow?
Odell is a strong man. We shall not
soon forget the surprise this man, I'M
til then known only as a machine con-
gresham and deputy boss under
Plat, gave US when as governor he
swung free of political dictation and
gave the state such an administration
as it had not seen since Tilden's. Even
Roosevelt, though equally strong and
willing, was not Odell's equal in ruling
the unruly legislature and overruling
Platt. The governor is to-day the
governor of the party, as well as of
the state. If he said the word he would
be Senator Odell. But he will not
In truth, this strong jawed, taciturn,
heavily-built, sad-eyed, not eloquent
but very positive man, with the heavy
lines in his face, is not ambitious. He
has refused more political chances in
his life than come to most men. Since
his son died in Washington, he does
not wish to go there. AS president,
perhaps-but that's different matter;
one not requiring present considera-
ton.
So in a "Let-the-old-man-h
he-wants" spirit the senatorship of
New York is to go to physical wreck
who has never been figure on the
floor of the upper house, whose health
is not equal to the duties of the Of
flee, and who is not even the boss of
the men who will send him there.
Queer affair, politics!
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Cornelius VanderbiIt's Friends.
The two most popular Vanderbilts
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15

Mr.. Platt practi-
cally promised the
senatorial seat to
Tiny Tim" Wood
ruff, of Brooklyn.
Tiny Tim, the son
of a senator, is
a b l e, personally
honest, but trains
in a bad crowd,
and is successful
in business. Hav-
ing been lieuten-
ant-governor and
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Science at the Table.

81 see," said the landlady's husband.
chat one of the scientific papers says
carp live for hundreds of years, and
that pike also may become centenari-
ans if they are left alone by the fish
ermen."
is that SOP" returned the star
boarder, making another effort to bite
a piece from the wing in his possession
Il wonder if anybody has ever really
found out how long it takes chicken
to die of old e?''-Chicago Record
Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15

Jackson l. Case, former mayor and
postmaster, died in Racine after an
illness of about year. Mr.. Case was
81 years of age, and leaves wife and
five children. He was a son OF the
late Jerome l. Case, the famous race
horse owner and manufacturer of
thrashing machines. The decedent
left a large fortune 10 his family, hav-
ing been heavily interested in manu-
featuring, street railways and other
enterprises.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15
Insane Over Ghosts.

Suffering with a mental hallucina-
ton that the ghost OF man for the
murder of whom he had been tried
and acquitted constantly appeared
before him and told him that he must
kill his father and mother before the
visits would be stopped, John Lom-
bard was declared insane at Amherst
and taken to the northern hospital
for insane at Oshkosh.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15

10 marry with the
idea of helping
him become sena-
tor or president.
Jessie Benton FIRE.
mont, who died
the other day in
California at the
age of Sc, did
that, though she
failed to grasp the
prize.
Nowadays if a
girl has beauty
she goes on the
stage; if wealth,
81 g. 4 4 n h11U q
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not write to the kings tailor?
have never had occasion to take his
majesty's measure. But if my guess
is to decide the knotty point, |
guess five feet seven inches. No
doubt plenty of people will be ready
to correct this off hand; but ] do
not believe l can be more than hall
an inch out either way. Certainly
both the figures given above are I'M
der the mark
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Left Her MiIIInna.

William H. Bradley, aged 65, of Mil
waukee and Tomahawl, multimillion-
aire and lumberman, was married to
his stenographer, Miss Marie Hanne-
myer, while he was on sick bed in
Milwaukee, and died two days after
wards. His will leaves all his property,
estimated at $10,000,OOO, to his wife.
Mrs. Bradley was born in Menominee,
is 80 years old, and had been in the
employ of Mr. Bradley for 20 years.
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over their new
station in New
York has set peo-
pl e wondering
whether the ex-
ample will not be
followed often. l
think it will. In
fact, we have what
a T e practically
railroad hotels al
T e a d y. Willie
Stokes huge An
sonia apartment
house has a sepa-
ro
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Pleasing News.

Marian-I showed those verses you
wrote me to papa, and he seemed
pleased.
Harry-He did?
Marian-Yes. He said he was so
glad to see you were not a poet
Spare Moments.
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Forced his wife
like a gentle
man." by taking
the blame himself,
and the younger
Cornelius, w h o
married against
his fathers impla-
cable opposition;
the same Cornell
Jus who has just
been fighting a
bad attack of ty-
phoid fever.
The young man
OuOht fO have had
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INDEPENDENTLY Rich.

Mrs. Dearborn-She must be very
rich.
Mrs. Wabash-Oh, she is.
do you know the source of her in
Gomez"
Yes; she draws alimony from five
former husbands" -Yonkers States
man.
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hands upon presi-
d e n t j a | timber.
Holidays are over,
n e w legisla lures
meeting, states
m e n swapping
views-with most
of the uncertain
ty, of course, on
t h e democratic
side.
Ii Coler had
been elected gov
ernor here [ don't
suppose Parker
would have bpen
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STORY OF A ROMANTIC DISPUTE
The Acre Difficulty That Gave Rise to
New Republic in South America
1T IS SAID TO BE SETTLED AT LAST

DISPATCH from La Paz,
the capital of Bolivia, says
that the Acre dispute is
being settled in Brazil and
that only one-half of the
proposed expedition to that
Observation-Disclosures terri-
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Politics Of AL Parties AS
Discussed i'm New York &&

lived in retirement. The next Cor
nelius died at the age of So, and for
years before that dragged himself to
his duty by a stress of heroism and
against load of illness that were lit
tie known. He used to drag himself
to the meetings of the charitable or
CARNATIONS of which he was the chief
support long after Wall street saw
him no more.
The present Cornelius is rheumatic at
80 and looks several years older. His
brothers, Alfred and Reggy, are slen-
der young fellows whose devotion to
sport" might save them if it took
more of a turn to sport on the green
turf and less to sport on the green
cloth. There is strong family re-
semblance between the brothers and
their cousin, Willie K, Jr. Not one
of them is a robust man. Cornelius
is a lieutenant in the national guard.
He took up soldering partly for the
exercise; it has the advantage that,
once committed to it, he cannot dodge
it, as a busy inventor might be in
cHned to do if it were indian clubs or
ping-pong.
o. o O.
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care they lovers?'
Eyes; didn't you notice how hard
it was to get them to talk to each
other at dinner? "-Detroit Free Press.
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PIatt, OdeII and Woodruff.

On the republican side there is a
contrast. Everything is 'cut and
dried -
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15

This is 1868; in II months politicians I
will need to know where to put their
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Cornelius VanderbiIt's Friends.
The two most popular Vanderbilts
are the senior William K, who di-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15

Fifty years ago the ambitious
American girl picked out. likely man
Arizona republican., 1903-10-31
The Rainbow, Claim

Attending the operations of the
Rainbow Gold Mining company there
is everything good to report, and with
what has been accomplished in the
short space of one year, backed up
with the showing of development work
honestly and practically expended, the
interested ones should beel elated to
say the least. This is company that
strikes one forcibly and yet favorably
in it's methods of mining. from the
fact that the president of the COM
pany to it's foreman las his coat off
and his sleeves rolled up in perform
ing even manual labor. l do not be-
lieve there is\a parallel case on record
among the regularly incorporated or
CARNATIONS, and it is probably due to
the fact that if an officer Of it wants
to earn his salary he must wade in
to do so. This company have title to
six claims and there are eleven in the
group. They are located one mile north
of the Gladiator and three and one
half miles nCrth of the Crowned King,
being in fact on a continuation of the
latter, which in itself is a very fav-
orable consideration. The principal
POINTS: A crosscut tunnel is being
run to tap the ledge at a depth of
about 200 feet, and the same is now
into the mountain over 200 feet. 1t is
expected that the vein win be struck
at any time, and one streak has al
ready been run into that gives a re-
markable showing, the ore going by
sample $64.30 to the ton in gold, silver
and copper At d point 800 feet north
there is a tunnel in 303 feet, while on
the surface above a shaft 81 feet deep
has been sunk, to connect with an up
raise from this tunnel that is now 60
feet upward. Both have a fine show
ing of ore and the vein will average at
least three feet across. Sampling from
this section of the mine across the
vein goes as high as 1888 to the ton,
while a general average of the same
will give not less than S25 to the ton.
In the tunnel also at all points the vein
is true and corries the same valuation.
Development on this property like in
other sections contiguous, shows that
depth invariably results in a sulphide
ore being reached, and an excellent
feature of the Rainbow is that the
values improve with that depth. There
is every reason to warrant the belief
at the present time that this property
has a good future, from the appear
ance of the mine at all points opened,
and the fact that it is on a fisSure that
supports the Crowned King, and the
methods that are being given by men
who are practical, Industrious and sin
cere. The superintendent of the COM
pany is F. a. Bowman, and the fore
man is A. S. Bowman, both of whom
were the locators of the ground being
operated.
With the good showing of the prop
erty at all points opened there is a
general belief that reduction works will
soon be 4 necessity to handle it's pro-
duct.