Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-05

ill lT:k0C DIT lu0 uoAl oloCllOu. MI.
Stephenson is pioneer of the state
and has done much to- build up it's in
dustries, as well as take considerable
interest in its politics. He came to
this state when only IS years of age
and, as Mr.. Curtis says, was one Of
the first to plow its SOIL"
Col. Villas Late Associate.
In the death Of Colonel j. H. Knight
is removed one of the best-known and
MIST prominent of the old-school Dem
Delaware and was type of the
shrewd easterner who saw the POSSIBLE
tiles Of wealth in northern Wisconsin
numbering and made the most of them.
He became a close friend and politi-
cal associate of ex-senator Villas
and profted politically and materially
thereby. He could take a hand in the
rough life of the frontier, as many
stories told Of him would indicate. He
was a great hunter and fisherman,
maintained preserves in Georgia and
was a genial boon companion. His
illness was the same that killed Gen
eral Grant, and he passed away at
Watertown, where his youngest
daughter, Mrs. j. E. Davies, lives.
1t is not generally known that Portia
Knight, the actress who brought suit
against the duke of Manchester for
breach Of promise and won $4,000,
was a niece of Colonel knight. Her
home is in San Francisco.
Oshkosh Fifty Years Old.
The semi-centennial celebration at
Oshkosh of the founding of the saw
dust city affords striking illustration
Of the growth of empire in the west.
1t has attained to population of 80
600, not so phenomenal as that Of Zion
City, for instance but founded on a
different basis. Though it's basis is
like that of many another northern
Wisconsin tOwn-one of sawduSt-
Oshkosh has been able to pass from a
numbering town to city with more
enduring interests. AS serving to link
the present with the past and to show
how short the remove from the from
tier has been, grandson of the old
Indian after whom the city takes its
name was one of the conspicuous fig
ures in the festivities and an Indian
brass band helped to furnish music.
The Shetland Pony Woman.
There is room enough in the world
for bright women. One drives into
the Madison market place nearly ev-
cry day with horses she is breaking
There is determination and nerve in
every line of her face. Mrs Minnie
Bracklin, the Shetland pony woman"
was formerly of Rice Lake. 1t seems
to be the old story of environment
and, possibly, heredity. In her child
hood she lived on a farm and her ia
Their was lover of good steeds. The
woman has a real love Of horses
Mrs. Bracklin recalls the names of all
the ponies she ever owned with per-
feet ease and speaks Of them as one
does of an old friend. She got into
the pony business from having one for
her little girl. A veteran in the bust
ness from Iowa suggested it to her as
means of livelihood. Last year there
were 40 ponies in her herd, but now
there are only eighty. This fall, how
ever, number of imported animals
will be added. In the winter she
makes bran mash for them twice
week and prepares tempting dishes
from carrots. She had pony once
that had human weakness for buck
wheat cakes and rice pudding. She is
clever in many ways. At depot one
day she even finished one of the
crates which contained a tiny pony
going on long journey, while the men
who watched were obviously surprised
to see the nails go in straight and
square.
Revival In Mining.
Mining Is picking up in the southern
part of the state. Where few years
ago there were many abandoned
shafts, and where almost desolation
reigned, people are again hustling,
pumping out and sinking the shafts
deeper The Honest Bob mine at Ha-
Eel Green, in Grant county, which was
named after the present governor, is
being refitted with powerful machin-
cry In fact, considerable interest is
being maintained in Hazel Green
mines generally. The Black mine, IA
nous for it's lake of water, where
boats have been sailed for many rods,
and where valuable mineral has been
taken from the very opening of the
shaft, is again in operation after pc
riod of idleness of some twenty years.
1t took two months of steady pumping
to reach the bottom Of the old works
and yet it seems to pay 1t is reported
on good authority that millionaire OPP
orators from the east are endeavoring
to acquire holdings among the mines
around Platteville and raise them
from q state of innocuous desuetude.
Cranberry Cures Malice.
At the Gaynor-Blac kstone cranber-
nv marsh, where the luscious fruit is
grown in large quantities, picnic
of growers was recently held and from
there was given out the information