The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-04-21

Some OF the boys have been going
the "pork" market pretty strong,
but are confident that they know
where they are at, and perhaps they
do. But, from all reports, many OF
them are in good deal heavier than
they can afford to lose-but of course
you never found man specializing
yet who expected to lose. Opera
tions of considerable magnitude are
being carried on in the local board
of trade, if current rumors are to be
believed.
The town board held meeting
Wednesday night of last week for
the purpose of notifying the water.
works company that the town, or
rather city of Washburn, wanted to
buy the water works plant. It is
likely that the company will have no
objection to selling, providing the
city can find a way to finance the
transaction. Members Of the town
board evidently took the view that
the time for notifying the company
had not expired as was stated in
some of the recent public meetings.
The Bayfield, Press is authority for
tho statemt that an attempt will be
made to stock $500" river with trout
and close it to fishermen for period
OF five years. The $500" is one of
the prettiest streams in northern
Wisconsin, and natural home for
trout Owing to log drives and a
great amount of fishing, due to it's
closeness to large towns, 800"
river has become almost depleted of
the speckled beauty. The stream
ought to be closed for time at least,
and in the meantime we'll stocked
with fish.
The first meeting of the new town
board of the town of Washburn took
place at the Office of City Clerk
Herring last THURSDAY afternoon.
Chairman O. e.. Rowe presided. and
Messrs. Dahl and Hosmer helped
furnish the official town Judgment
The bonds of the clerk end treasurer
were fixed and filed, and some appli-
cations were received for highways,
but they were laid over for future
reference. The new board is deter
mined to give the town of Washburn
an economical and business like form
of government and are going at
their duties in asplendid manner.
The rumor that went out from the
congressional committee meeting
held at Spooner last week to the
effect that every indication points to
the denomination of Congressman
Jenkins to succeed himself is no
surprise as this is bound to be the
result if the wishes of the constitu-
ency are obeyed, and if he is nomin-
ated, which of course he will be, the
voters at their earliest opportunity
will proceed to carry out these wishes
by'giving our able representative
rousing endorsement Glenwoo6
Tribune.
In order to settle the question of
whether the death of the man Nosey,
brought here from,a "shack" near
Benton, was due to suicide or muir
der, it is said that one of the parties
interested took three shots at the
corpse, the result of this investiga-
ton showing that the man killed
himself. This was determined by
the way in which the powder marked
the body. the self-destruction theory
being demons trated by there being
no powder marks when the revolver
was held very close to the body.
1t is seldom necessary to shoot a
dead MAJ, but in the interests Of
science even these things are done
at times.
A meeting was held at the Knights
of Labor hall last week at which the
question of a cooperative creamery
was taken up and discussed. d. w.
Corning acted as chairman of the
meeting, and Nels M. Oscar was
secretary. A plan was formulated
to place the stock of the company
on the market at ten dollars share
and it is expected that $4,000 will
be raised in stock. This, it is in
tended, will start a frst-class cream
cry, and with the cooperation of the
farmers il is calculated that the
enterprise can be made a success.
Seven hundred cows will have to be
secured to keen tho Institution