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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-17
STRAWBERRIES BRING WEALTH.
Lone Island in Snake River Is a Car
den SPOT,

IL
den Spot.
A desert island in the middle of
Snake river is one Of the most unique
strawberry gardens in the State of
Washington. says the San Francisco
Chronicle. The land is surrounded by
water and vet so dry that even sage
brush and desert weeds will not grow
except under irrigation. For six months
in the year the residents are practi-
cally cut off from communication with
the outside world of humanity. High
waters make the river too dangerous to
cross in boats and the ice of winter
closes all approaches from either shore.
On this lonely spot grows the first
Strawberries of the Northwest
Strawberry island is government
property. The land has never been sur
veyed and probably will never be plat
ted as available for the homesteader.
1t is Il great mass Of sand dunes and
cactus covered stones. The Snake river
carries down from its mountain sources
immense deposits of sand bearing glist-
ening fakes of gold. Many acres Of
land have been created from these de-
and great dust storms obscure the sun
for days and even weeks in the spring
months. Yet the Strawberries grow
and ripen to perfection.
The loan claimant of this island has
six acres planted to early Strawberries.
Surrounding his cabin is great field
of forty acres planted to alfalfa: He
keeps a band of cattle and requires the
help of many women and children in
harvesting his berries and caring for
the milk and butter When other Sec
tons are clothed in nantes of snow
this sandy desert is ripening the straw
berries for which the people in the in
land cities of Spokane and Butte pay
% to 40 cents a cup. The grower re-
ceives from 81 to So crate for his
fruits.
Irrigation is the secret of success in
producing strawberries from the des-
ert Water is lifted from the river by
means of current motors or wheels
idSICd TO Il lIlON dDlS EcOuelILuGS
the river runs twenty feet below the
level of the beach. Then the pipes,
attached to the water motor are made
longer and the water lifted to Il higher
point When the river is high and
threatens to wash away the island the
water wheels work easily and pump
great volumes on the land Small
bitches carry water from the pumps
point of discharge to the fields, where
it is distributed in burrows.
Strawberry island is great producer
of wealth. The owner has an income
of about $500 an acre every year Last
season he made net profit of $1,000
from the field Of six acres planted to
berries. He grows none but the largest
and brightest colored varieties and does
zot attempt to compete with the ge1i-
eral market When others are ship
ping their berries he has completed his
work and the remnant is given to FAM
lilies OF campers. who pitch tents about
the island to fish for the great Column
bia river salmon.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-17

c h a / t a Wrested
from King John by
the English barons
at Runnymede June
10, 1915, has been
known for a long
time to possess lib
eral tendencies and
a qualified repug-
nance to bureau
cratic rule. This
arises in part from
the fact that he is
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-17
Forty Years Ago.

The Illinois House of KepFtsS
tives concurred in the Senate OD'
pealing the black laws. :.
The Cook county Qlll boaIa VI y,
,peryisors voted a bounty Oh S'V'
volunteers. ,.r,
President Lincoln returned 10 y
ington. The State Departures ,,,.
nounced that the peace nesotL'l ,s'
Fortress Monroe had come 10 ~,
The alien bill (anti-ConfedeFa's.. u
passed by the Canadian paii'"'"'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-17
Twenty Years Ago.

The trophies of Gen. OI .;rea %
ed BY Vanderbilt and g. sI, to tie |
widow, were given by nSi
eminent. .,.5 br a Dol
Three men were killed IT,, " np,l|
Audubon, Iowa. They D'
an old man. uo irish as'l
O'Donovan Rosa. t,le ~ ,' tbe sres|
was shot and wounded o Oh d 4
New York by Yseulte Duu'''
an. vious DeDp
visited president-elect -, ~ = spbI1
New York and found Dill y
garding his plans !, Years sNepl /
The worst storm in . !ec and cd|
Chicago, tying up tia'n'
much suffering.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-17

~ COASl'iNcA
ure in the House
of Representatives
if the rebate ques-
ton is threshed out
thoroughly. Hep
burn has been pub
licly described by
Democrats as "the
big gun Of the ma
jorlty," and as 1.-The
Long Tom of the
Republican side"
rho most DrOfOund
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-17
CHAPTER MN

Again there was the sudden cOncentric,
undulatOry movement that seemed to
impel the crowd to a position more com
pactly about the carriage, there were
loud, inarticulate cries and the brandsh-
ing of guns, held in excited hands Men
and boys began to climb up into already
flied wagons, holding on to those who
were standing in these vehicles packed
about the streets like regiment of az
tillery From their position in the wide
doorway of the court house, the very
deliberately dressed Congressman Biler,
probably at the suggestion of the two or
three gentlemen who sit behind him, and
who represent the S. & n. w, as against
the S. & S. W., gets upon a chair, and
begins to admonish the crowd to keep
order.
you shet up, Billy Biler." roared old
Coonrod Redden, in Il voice that effectu-
ally "shet" Mr.. Biler up, whether he
would or no. I'm do-un the talkun
now! You'll git chaincte after spell,
eff you've gut anytheng to say
Billy Biler grins in some confusion at
this rude and unexpected rebuff, and a
vast shout of laughter ripples outward
an. scientifically from the carriage to
where the regiment of farm wagons is
packed.
Il hope they are getting over that saw
age humor," Lizzy said standing up in
her excitement. Don't you think they
are? Don't you think by their laughing
that way. that they are?' The young
Doe bikes shook his head.
You CANT tell nuthun by thur laugh
un ataway. Eff they was plum ready
to boss up a Teller, I'm anythcng funny
I'd happen, they'd stop minute to laugh,
TN go right avn 4 hossun NV i'm up.
Ats the kline a fellers they air..
''They's a man h-yur ats ben with
urse un ben respectful un treated right
by urse Sandtown farmbers,' went on the
stentorian voice of old Coonrod Redeem
But e haint treated urse right. He's
ben a snake Ell the grasst. Ats whit
he's BEN
Now indeed is there very tidal wave
of uphcaval, and with it not a growl,
bat leonine roar and Il vast tumult
about the carriage, around which in a
little confused and narrowing space men
struggled with each other.
What are they doing? O. what are
they doing?" Lizzy cries i'll spasm of
horror.
BY gum, they're a go-un to boss up
the Teller. right h-yur en- the court house
yard. There goes the judge I'm the
shurf! But they'd III well keep outen
thar. No. BY gum. they've gut um kline
nh Quoted down. Coonrod I'm Uncle
Jim bikes w knocked down bout fifteen
ur twenty than Reelfoot Pom fellers.
Ats the only way YOU kin git any saince
ento than fellers' heads-is to knock ut
ento UNI. You git Coonrod I'm Uncle
Jim bikes I'm the Sparks boys tog-yuth-
er, I'm hit'll take a purity good crowd to
pile tham.'
There was on Indefinite and indie
terminate period of the widest uproar
and confusion all about and in the court
house yards Everywhere the judge, the
sheriff and Coonrod Redden could be seen
gesticulating wildly. Selling men by the
arms or collars, and shouting at the tops
of the highest voices in all the Sand
town district. Finally they seemed to
succeed in restoring order, to some ex-
tent: aud Immediately the selling was
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-17
WICkLYS WOODS
w. TAYLOR
BY II. w. TAYLOR

surging, roaring throng of armed men
all about him. Inside the court house
yard, the crowd was so dense that men
could scarcely move about, and their red
and heated faces all looked strained, ex-
cited and threatening
Not a word could be distinguished in
the roar of loud and vehement disputa-
ton that seemed to be going on Now
there was a rush of the buzzing mass
toward some distant point, and the ex-
carnations, Eight Fight" could be
heard. Then the crowd would settle
back, and the roar of excited voices go on
again as before. Once the keen, loud
report of a rife caused the crowd to
stream round the two sides of the court
house. But presently the refiuX of the
tide set in, and swept them all back
again. What a strange spectacle this
Wild, hot, angry, roaring crowd, pushing
this way and that, and filling the summer
air with the roar of their voices. and yet
remaining riddle to the lockers On--so
far as anything that was thought or said
or done, was concerned.
"Haint much satisfaction a lookup
thisaway" the young Doc said. You
CANT tell nothun at they're sayun ur a
do-un, no moren eff you was acrost on
h-yan side the river
But at this moment the tall form of
COonrod Redden was seen to Chamber up
to the top board of the court house fence.
'Lissun! Lissun! Shet up your talk
un! Coonrod's a go-1n to make 4 speech .
Lissun! Lissunw were the numerous eX-
CARNATIONS under which the roar died
away in swift diminuendo, and perfect
silence prevailed.
'Gen-tuhmenr' began the old Hoosier.
with short jerk of his left forearm
and extended palm, forward and to the
left, and then back to his side again.
We've cum h-yur to en-Quar ento some
thengs cawn-cern-un Nv the Sandtown
Farmers Bank. I'm nallso cawncernun Nv
a lot ah moggijis Nv ourn at wair hilt by
the Farmbers' Bank. when hit busted.
Than moggijis have ben foreclosed. TN
the lan's gut to be sole to-day. They
haint no gittun roun that. Hits the law.
Tn the laws gut to be inforced. But
we know at somebody's ben tryun to
git the best Nv urse Sandtown farmhers."
Angry and threatening looks are here
directed toward the carriage in which
Mr.. Mason sits, calm and unmoved, save
perhaps that slight pallor of the face
which betokens the greatest determine
| ton, the most unfaltering purpose.
Not alone threatening looks. There is
a low growl that seems to come from
the circumference towards the center of
the throng, stirring it in an inconceivable
manner, as if the groWl emanated from a
sudden concentric earth-wave that i'm
parted its sound and its undulatory move
ment to each individual of the vast mass.
'Jist keep kline uh qui-ut, men. We
don't wawnt no furse'n h-yur. lemmy
tell yuh.' He looked round over the
crowd as he spoke, and then glanced
covertly back into the carriage.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-17
o1~~~oo~

Because he is chairman of the Con-
mittee on Interstate Commerce Con-
pressman William p. Hepburn will be
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05

When sardines in tens of thousands
reach the factory they are cleaned by
long rows of women with short knives
and go for two hours into the salt watts.
They next have bath Of sea water
in coarse baskets under a pump and
are put to dry In the open on wire
racks till they begin to shrivel. when
they are taken to the tanks of boiling
oil. Into one of these each rack ia
plunged for a moment or two and then
set aside to drip, after which the fish
are selected and laid carefully in tin
boxes, which are filled up with oil.
The box now passes to the hands of
the solderer to be sealed, and when
this is completed hole is punched in
the lid to let out any imprisoned air
and closed at once with solder. AS a
final stage the tins are placed in a
huge iron crate and lowered into tanks
of boiling water, when they will ex-
plode if any air is still shut in. Those
that stand this test are packed in wood
en- cases for expectation.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05
Papyrus Books.

Early writer's made use of linen or
cotton fabrics, of skins and even Of
scales of fishes for writing. For long
period papyrus was used, the books
being made in rolls, being about one
and one-half feet wide and sometimes
fifty feet long. Papyrus was flag or
bulrush, growing eight or ten feet
high, found in the marshes of Egypt;
from it's inner pith the form of paper
called papyrus was made. Papyrus
sheets were neatly joined, attached to
a stick and rolled upon it (whence we
have our word volume from the
Latin volvere, to rOlD. The titles
were written on tags attached to the
sticks or inscribed on the outside Of
the rolls. The rolls were kept in
round wooden boxes resembling the
old fashioned bandboxes and could
easily be carried about.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05


e&nmittees, and upon which no hear
ings have been held. Some Of the best
Informed senators express the opinion
that the prospect for an adjournment
before June / is exceedingly remote.
The first evidence of desire for adj
journment came to light when Sena-
tor Roehr introduced a joint resolu-
ton designed to cut off business on
May Is and fixing the time of final
adjournment on May 49,. The resolu-
ton went to the committee on rules.
Tt will be considered and be reported
back.
The Stout 800 foot bill. limiting the
location of saloons within school
bounds. was. upon motion OF Senator
Rogers, by and with the consent Of
Senator Stout, laid over for one week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05
InjunctiOn starts Street Cars.

Kenosha. Wis.,*April 29.-The street
cars of the Kenoslla electric street
railway are running again. Near MIDI
night Court, Commissioner James
Cavanagl granted an injunction
against y the city of Kenosha, Mayor
. James German and Chief of Police
Fred Reynolds, preventing them from
interfering with the running of cars.
The injunction is based on a suit for
$4,000 claimed for damages caused by
the action of the mayor in stopping the
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05
WIRELESS MESSAGES FLY
German Steamer Gets Them, but Can't
Make Elm Out-Latest News of
Rojestvensky.

Tsingtau. May 3 The German
cruiser Furst Bismarck received off
Tsingtau April 30 a number of wire
less Geographic messages which are be-
lieved to have come from distance of
were unable to translate the MESA ges.
Saigon. May 2.-The Russian squad
ron is lying off Port Dayet, forty miles
north of Kamranh bay. and in Biuh-
kang bay near Kamranh bay, outside
of territorial waters. Russian. Ger
man. and British transports are off
Cape st. James. near Saigon, and in
the Saigon river
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05
VIEWS OF BISHOP GRAFTON
He Ia for Russia, as Christians, Against
Japan, and Says the Japs Are
Great Liars.

Fond dur Lac, Wis, April 2S-Epis-
cOpal Bishop Grafton, at meeting OF
the Twilight club, at which the war in
the Far East was discussed, declared
himself as follows:
Japanese are great liars. They are
a sensual people and have no idea OF
the meaning of the Judgment day.
Russia has a higher feeling and the
people are Christians. The japanese
are heathens. l excuse Russia for
wanting to occupy Manchuria. Man
churia needs it. / want Russia to
VIM Bishop Grafton recently returned
from Russia
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO ] -
LUCAS COUNTY, SS


Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the firm of f. j.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the city
of Toledo, county and state aforesaid,
and that said firm will pay the sum of
One Hundred Dollars for each and every
case of catarrh that cannot be cured by
the use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
tea s.a,-@ FRANK J~CHENEY,
Sworn to before me end subscribed in
my presence. this 9th day of December,
A. D., 1896.
A. w. GLEASON,
~ Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and nue.
Gus surfaces of the system. Send for
testimonials, free. r. J. Cheney & Co,
"a Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05

home a wedge into the ranks of the
Chicago Team Owners association
This latter organization is composed OF
men who do teaming for many of the
large business houses, and particularly
in the matter of hauling coal They
have fought shy so far Of aiding the
employers to the extent of making de-
liyeries on their contracts going to the
length of asking employers to refrain
from requesting them to haul coal or
other merchandise, and asserting that
ii their men were stopped while on the
street there was nothing for them to
do but to return to the barn.
The employers have at last informed
the team owners that they must make
deliveries at once and continue to make
them from this time on. The question
of coal was becoming vital in the strug
gle and they did not propose to be.
crippled while contracts existed which
entitled them to a full delivery ACCORD
ing to their needs. The five largest
team owning companies were informei
that if the coal was not delivered al:
of their contracts would be cancelled
at once, and they would not be re-
newed at any time herea fter. strike Or
no strike. The team owners then agreed
to make deliveries as demanded
The Union labor leaders who were
,.ldicted last Saturday in connection,
with the strike appeared at the crimi-
nal court building and gave bonds III
the sum of $1,000 each. Sheriff. Barrett
refused to appoint union men as depu-
ties as he had been requested to do by
the Chicago Federation of Labor. Dur
ing the day the sheriff swOre in as dep
uties several men who are the heads
of firms that are involved in the strike
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05
Additions to the Number Of the
Idle at Chicago Hit the Cit.
liens Table.
GROCERY DRIVERS QUIT WORK
No Let-Up to the Rioting, Which
Grows with the Strike.
Police Disarr1 All NOn-Union Drivers
and Employers Now Propose to
Use Winchester Rifles
Riot Incidents.

Chicago, May 2.-ConditiOns in tho
transfers strike are worse than at any
preceding time. The strikers were in
more ugly mood the riOting was more
open and vicious, and the attacks OF
non-uniOn men more frequent and dar-
ing than at any time since the COM
mencement of the trouble. The chief
cause for the increased beligerency ON
the part of the strikers and their
friends is laid to the fact that the En-
ployers Teaming company has
brought 1900 men into the city to take
their places and 500 more are said to
be now On the way and will arrive
within twelve hours. These men will
receive the full pay of union men, and
it has been guaranteed to them that
their positions will be permanent.
winchester. Rifles as Arms.
A new features appeared in the strike.
and it will be in full evidence today
whenever wagon of the Employers
leaning company goes through the
streets. This feature will be the Win
chester rifle. 1t will be carried on all
wagons of the Employers Teaming
company in open view. During the
last week there has been much com
plant OH the part of strike sympathiz-
ers of the readiness with which the
non-union men, particularly negroes,
have drawn and used revOlvers. Many
of them have been arrested on the
charge of carrying concealed weapons
and the attorneys of the Employers
leaning company called upon Chief
of Police O'Neill and asked if their
men had not the right to carry weap-
Ons provided they were held in open
view and were not concealed. o~
No Law Against Arms i'm Sight.
Chief O'Neill replied that there was
no law against it. and arrangements
were promptly made by the employers
to place Winchester rifles ON every one
of their wagons. Over 1000 of these
weapons were purchased and a num-
Der of wagons went through the streets
with a rifle lying across the knees OF
the driver and his assistant.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05
Officers After John Dietz.

Ladysmith, Wis. April 20. = Eleven
United States officers and deputies have
started from here for Cameron dam to
effect the capture of John F. Dietz,
should he fail to appear in court at
Madison on Monday. He is to show
cause why the injunction restraining
him from interfering with the driving
of logs through the dam should not be
made permanent.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05
Terrific Race with Death

death was fast approaching" writes
Ralph F. Fernandez, of Tampa, Fla, de-
scribing his fearful race with death, "as
a result of liver trouble and heart di-
sease, which had robbed me OF sleep and
of all interest in life. I had tried many
many different doctors and several med
icines but got no benefit until I began
to use Electric Bitters. So wonderful
was their effect that in three days / felt
like new man, and today | am cured OF
all my troubles" Guaranteed at III. j.
Stangl's drug store; price SOC.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05
SERGEANT CUMMINGS Is DEAD
Was HurS During Blockade CAUSED BY
Sympathetic Teamsters.

Was H0rs During = Blockade Caussd BY
Sympathetic Transfers.
The death list has one more name
that of Sergeant Richard Cummings,
who was in charge of police squad
guarding a number of wagons Thurs
day, when he was knocked down in
Washington street near Dearborn By
the horses attached to bus The bus
was trying to pass blockade of teams
caused by sympathetic union drivers
who were not on strike.
Shortly before 10 a. M. ten trucks in
charge of colOred non-uniOn men left
the west side stables Of the Employ
ers' Teaming company for the whole
sale grocery OF Sprasue, Warner 4
Co. When the wagons left the stables
a crowd of several hundred persons
followed, jeering the drivers, and at
Clinton and Van Buren, streets the
crowd became bOisterous. 1.-THE fellow
sitting on thHt third wagon drew a gun
this morning." shouted some one in the
crowd
This was signal for those in the
crowd to begin violent methods, and
bricks, sticks, stones and other missiles
were thrown at the nOn-uniOn team
sters. After struggle the police dis
persed the crowd and arrested Claude
Davanger and Timothy Kenney This
is a specimen of what is going on all
day wherever there is any attempt to
move goods to or from "struck" houses.
Two serious riots took place last
night. The first was at the intersec-
ton of Harrison and Desplaines street.
where mob containing many women.
and numbering fully 1000 attacked a
crowd of sixteen non-union men who
were being taken to the railway sta
ton under the guard of a squad Of
police. Stones and missiles of all kinds
were hurled at the men. Several of
the nOn-rniOn men were injured with
stones, and many of the mob suffered
broken heads from the clubs of the
police. A number of arrests was made.
The second fight took place at Tween
ty-SecOnd and State streets. when y
crowd attacked four coalwagons which
urder the guard Of eight private detec-
tives was returning to the yards Of
the Daniels company after making the
delivery Of coal at nearby plant.
The non-uniOn men were pelted with
stones thrown from the secOnd-story
of building which they were pass
ing, and the detectives. drawing their
revOlvers charged into the place. The
inmates fed. and no shots were fired.
The detectives were arrested for car
rying concealed weapons.
Five men were seriously hurt during
fights, but the number actually in
jured is greatly in excess Of this. hut
it Is impossible to state accurately for
the rea son that many of those hurt
disappear in the crowd or are carried
away by their friends as soon as pos
sible after being injured Those sert-
ously hurt are: Otto Helmer, shot in
the leg: Jno. Williacs and G. +. Ingalls,.
non-union teamsters. badly beaten; VIM.
Crockett. hon-uniOn teamster dubbed
and stoned until insensible; Charles
Kullett, non-union teamster. badly
beaten by mob nose broken and head
cut in several places.