River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-01-12

last evening. The list will appear
next week with that of other or
ders.
Hon. E. Y. Saylers, the new Gov
ernor of North Dakota, is a Pierce
county boy. He is the son of Rev.
Saylers who was pastor of the M.
E. church at Prescott for four years
and was afterwards presiding elder
of this district for six years.
Sheriff Johnson of St. Croix coun-
ty, entering upon the discharge of
his official duties the first Tuesday
of the year, appointed Hans Hage-
stad his deputy. Mr.. Hagestad
was the deputy of Sheriff Harry o.
Harris and is brother of MIR.
Harris widow.
The almanacs predict snow and
cold weather about this time of
year. They generally strike it cor
rectly, and it doesn't intimate that
the makers are gifted with so much
foresight as hindsight. Snow and
cold weather predomnated more
last winter than last summer.
The Roberts Telephone Co. ex-
tended it's line into Pleasant Valley
and Kinnickinnic last fall and will
further extend it in the spring. In
Kinnickinnic the line reaches to
VIM. M. Bankers " who with his
neighbors near on the north and
east have phones in their houses.
Judge Charles Smith will edit
page in the Superior Saturday
Evening Telegram. His salutatory,
initial page, appears in the issue of
last Saturday. This page will be
devoted to the discussion of matters
relating to agriculture and the
home. This frst-page venture is
replete with interesting features.
The New Richmond papers are
publishing the value of the improve
ments made in that city the past
year The figures are imposing
and look nearly as big as Mrs. Chad
wick's debts. Our neighbor is to
be congratulated on its prosperity
and increase in values, but when the
assessor gets onto the business
next June the cornucopia will be
"t'other end up" Hudson True
Republican.
Chapter III of "The Story of
Pierce County," running in the
Spring Valley Sun, takes the history
down TO the division of St. Croix
county into three counties = St.
Croix, Polk and Pierce. Conse-
quently, Chapter ", appearing in
this weeks issue, starts with the
history of Pierce county as sepa-
rate political division. The date of
the official entrance of this territory
as a distinct county is 1858.
Mr.. Wilson, the Secretary of the
Agricultural Department, says that
although the wheat crop of 1904 is
smaller than that of any year since
1900 it's farm value is greater than
that of any year since 1881. This
is all right for the fellows that raised
the wheat the past year but little
rough on those who had none and
the great mass who have to buy
-four. Flour is so to 70 per cent
higher than it was few years ago.
Sam Trip, the notorious horse
thief, and a crook by the name of
Burton, slipped out of the Hudson
jail week ago yesterday morning
and made good their escape into
Minnesota, but Trip was recap
tured in St. Paul and brought back.
The other fellow is still at large.
They made their exit from the cage
of the Jail by picking the lock,
which had not been fully thrown
and got out of the corridor by saw
ing off the steel bars.
Judge Charles Smith enters upon
his third term as Judge of the SUI
perior Court at Superior at the be-
ginning of 1905. He was first elect
ed in 1898 and again in 1898 and
last spring was elected for another
sit years without opposition. Judge
Smith has stirred up considerable
of a sensation by publishing an
open letter in which he says Doug
las county has been Systematically
looted for the past eighteen years,
the aggregate summing up to $780,
900 to $250,000.
A large number of the citizens OF
Idaho are Mormons. 1t is even
said that majority of the voters
have some connections with Nor
monism. Bills have been intro
duced in both branches of the legis-