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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
NO koWToWlNc FOR HIM.
motel Man Who Was Not to Be Over
awed by Dignitaries of
State.

They tell this one on former Gov.
George Hoadly of Ohio:
Once upon a time, in the midst of
campaign, MIR. Hoadly was to deliver
a speech at a little town in the great
and glorious Buckeye State. When he
reached the one hotel the town boast
ed he walked up to the register and
wrote his name The proprietor-head-
porter steward headwaiter- depot run
ner was behind the desk in his shirt
sleeves, his hat on the back of his
head, and cigar stump held between
his teeth. When the visitor had put
down his John Hancock the factotum
turned the register around, read with
out the flicker of an eyelid the name
there written, wrote 40" beside 1t
with lead pencil, and said:
you kin jest take yer grip right up
that stairway there an back down the
hall clean to tn end. Yer rooms right
on tn left hand side of tn hall, in tn
corner--number TO-
With considerable establishment and
not little injured dignity Ohio's chief
executive pointed to his name, smiled
family, and said:
II am George Hoadly"
yep; notice" said the rustic
without turning hair. "An' yer
rooms right there at tn end of tn
hall-number 10. Can't miss it."
With more hauteur, and almost
quivering With outraged Importance,
40 OK al
Il am George Hoadly, governor of
the state of Ohio"
Turning, then, with look of ex-
asperated Impotence on his face, the
hotel man exclaimed:
well, what dye expect me t. do
kiss we ?"-Judge
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31

couldn't hold hold a candle TO him
as an all-around rough rider and cow
how combined. So pa hired about
dozen of the cowboys to go with our
show. and then we went into camp
for the night, and the cowboys told
of a pIace about 20 uiles away, where
some scientists had a camp, where
they were excavating to dig out petri-
fed homes of animals supposed to be
extinct. like the dinosaurs and the
hoday. and pa wanted to go there and
see about it, and the next day we took
half a dozen of tho cowboys pa had
hired and we rode to the camp.
Gee. but | never believed that such
animals ever did exist in this coun-
.rv but the scientists had one animal
picture that showed the dinosaurs as
he existed when alive, an animal over
20 feet long. that would weigh as
mnch as a dozen of our largest ele-
phants, with a neck as long as Is
giratfes, and then they showed us
bones of these animals that they dug
out and put together, and the complet-
ed mess of bones showed that the
dinosaurs could eat out of a six-story
window. and pas circus instinct told
him that if he could find such an ami
NAL alive, and capture it for the
show, our fortunes would be made.
We stayed there all night, and pa
asked questions about the probability
OF there being such animals alive at
this day, and the scientists promptly
told pa these animals only existed
ages and ages ago. when the country
vas covered with water and was part
of the ocean, and that the animals
lived on the high places, but when the
water receded, and the ocean became
a desert, the dinosaurs died of a
broken heart and all we had to show
for it was these petrified bones.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
NUGGETS OF KNOWLEDGE.

There are ladies' smoking cars on
English railways.
Alligator, popular native dish in
India, tastes like veal.
The wood used in the best pianos
has been seasoned 40 years.
Those who reach 80 in good health
are likely, statistics show, to last to
70.
Over 100000 pounds of human hair,
valued at 100000, is sold annually
IN Paris.
The majority of criminals can draw
and paint. That is why artists can
rarely get credit.
In many parts of Switzerland the
government buries the dead, supplying
collins and undertaken free of cost.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31

Pa ought to have believed the scien-
lists, cause they know all about
their business, but after the scientists
had gone to bed the cowboys began TO
string pa They told him that about
a hundred miles to the north, in a
valley in the mountains, the d.
nosaurus still existed, alive, and that
no man dare go there. One cowboy
said he was herding bunch of cattle
in valley up there once, and the
bunch got into drove of dinosauruses,
and the first thing he knew big
dinosaurs reached out his neck and
picked up steer, raised it In the air
about so feet, as easy as derrick
would pick up dog house, and the
dinosaurs swallowed the steer whole,
and the other dinosauruses each swal-
lowed a steer. The cowboy said be-
fore he knew It his whole bunch OF
steers was swallowed whole, and they
would have swallowed him and his
horse If he hadn't skinned out on q
gallon. He said he could hear the
dinosauruses for miles, making noise
like distant thunder, whether from
eating the steers, giving them pain,
or whether bidding defiance to him
and his horse, he never could make
out, but he said nothing but money
could ever induce him to go into that
valley again.
Pa asked the other cowboys if they
had ever been to that dinosaurus val
ley, and they winked at each other and
said they had heard of it, but there
was not money enough to hire them
to go there, cause Iey had heard that
mans life was not safe minute
Bill, who had told the story, was the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31

the scientists, but they are alive in
Alaska The north pole is extinct,
but some dub in balloon will find
see live dinosaurs, or bust. You
hear me?" and pa heard them cooking
breakfast, and we got up.
Before noon pa had organized a pack
train and hired three cowboys, and
got some diagrams and pictures of
dinosauruses from the scientists, and
we started north on the biggest fool
expedition that ever was, but pa was
as earnest and excited as Peary plan
ming north pole expedition, and as
busy as a boy killing snakes. After
the cowboys and the scientists had
tried to get pa to make his will before
he went, and got the addresses where
pa wanted our remains sent to in
case of our being found dried up on
the prairie, and our bones polished
by wolves, we were on the move, and
pa was so happy you would think he
had already found a live dinosaurus,
and had him in a cage.
For four days we rode along Up
and down foothills, and divides, and
small mountains, and all the time pa
was telling the boys how, after we
had located our dinosauruses, we
would so back east and organize an
expedition with derricks and cages as
big as house. and come back and
drive the animals in. And when we
got them with the show people we
would run trains hundreds of miles
to see the rarest animals any show
ever exhibited to a discriminating pub
lie. and we could charge five dollars
for tickets, and people would mob
each other to get up to the ticket
wagon Then the boys would wink
at each other. and tap their foreheads
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
Orders Railroad to Build.

The railroad rate commission has
ordered that new station be erected
at the village of Catawba, Wis, on
the Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste
Marie line. Complaint was made
against the shipping facilities of that
station last October and the matter
has been thoroughly investigated
since then. The station ordered is to
be similar to one erected at Prentiss.
Sixty days time will be allowed by the
commission. 1t also orders 1900 feet
of side track to be built to facilitate
shipment. The Medford Fruit Pack
ing company, which charged the Wis
consin Central railroad with excessive
rates in the carrying of berry-boxes,
has won decision temporarily favor
abe to them before the railroad COM
mission The packing company held
that the rates were both excessive and
under a wrong classification. I'VE are
of the opinion" concludes the decision
of the railroad commission. that the
existing rules and rates constitute an
unfair discrimination against boxes
shown at the hearing; and it is further
our judgment and determination that
the present rates charged for The
transportation of lumber with a mini
mum of 10000 pounds, as applied to
nestled boxes are remunerative and that
such rates should also be charged for
the transportation of berry boxes. eff
no such classification and schedule of
rates can be agreed upon by the car
riers and manufacturers and others in
interest, the commission will proceed
as soon as practicable upon it's own
motion to investigate further the ex-
listing classification and rates for fruit
packages"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
New Railroad Project.

The Wisconsin & Northern Railroad
company, which proposes to build a
new line from Menasha to point on
the Minneapolis. st. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie line near North Crandon juno
ton, in Forest county, filed articles OF
incorporation The road is to be l25
miles long and will pass through Win
nebago, Outagamie, Shawano, Lang
lade and Forest counties. The COM
pany is capitalized at S1.00o,000. The
promoters, Chicago and Wisconsin
capitalists.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
state Turner's Choose Madison.

The annual meeting of the VISION
sin State Turner's society was held in
Mayville May 10 and 20. 1t was decided
that Madison would be the next meet
ing place of the society and will be
held there next summer, the date not
having been decided upon. Ten dele
gates were elected to attend this meet
ing. The next athletic meet of the
society will be held in Green Bay this
summer, at which time turner's from
all parts of the state will participate
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
Wisconsin Liquor Traffic.

Wisconsin Liquor Traffic.
In concluding his elaborate COM
ment on the liquor traits in Wis
consin and the United States, j. ID.
Beck, state commissioner of labor and
industrial statistics, IN part third Of
the twelfth biennial report of the de-
partment for 1905-e6 says: 1T is evil
dent that the liquor traffic is about as
deeply rooted and important a bCri-
ness in Wisconsin AS it is else where
in the United States The commits
sioner says: In the United S ate cut
of total of $3.50 persons con il ed
of crime, who were interviewed in
gathering these statistics, -, 451, or SO
per cent. were addicted to the Sc of
liquor Of this total number &C.. icted
of crime. less than one per est. used
wine only, IL per cent. malt liquor
only, and 76 per. cent. used two or more
only, three per cent. disti ed liquor
kinds of liquor. Out of $50 cases of
insanity examined, GIL, or 81 per cent,
were addicted to the use OF liquor, and
one-half this number is classed as eX-
cessive drinkers, and over % per cent.
of the 1886 cases Of insanity were
caused directly by the use of liquors.
OF the poverty which comes under the
observation of charity organizations,
IS per cent. is directly due to the use
of liquor. The per capita consumption
of alcoholic liquors in the United
States has increased from 4 1-5 gallons
in 1910 to about 20 gallons in 1903
This enormous increase is mainly at
tributed to the ever increasing demand
for malt liquors, which contains a
small per cent. of alcohol as compared
with an equal amount of distilled IL
quor. In the same period the use of
malt liquors has increased from / 1-3
gallons to over Is gallons per capita,
and the average annual consumption OF
distilled liquors has decreased from 21a
gallons in 1910 to liz gallons per CAPT
ia in 1903. Out of 11S cities in Wiscon-
sin 113 have licenses, of 204 villages
1879 have licenses, and of the 099
towns 500 have licenses. Five cities,
Is villages and 376 towns voted mo IL
cense.' The remaining towns and vii
lagos have mo license because no APP
plication for license was made. 1t
would appear from the report that a
majority of about II per cent. of the
population of the state are against Ii
cense, that when saloons ar located
according to industry of the people
nearly every manufacturing center in
the state has saloons, and that every
no-licensed town, city or village is not
a manufacturing center, with possibly
two exceptions" The commissioner
says that the value of all property
employed in the liquor traffic, both
owned and rented, is about $33, 500 coo,
of which $26300,000 is in real estate
and the remainder in fixtures and sun
dries. The total tax paid by the liquor
| traffic in the state is about 1894 600
| The total number OF persons in the
state dependent on the liquor traffic
for livelihood is $4,000. The total
annual revenue from the manufacture
and traffic in alcoholic liquors in Wis
consin for federal, state and municipal
government is about $S,384,7S6.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
How to Go

When you have occasion TO travel, use the
same discrimination in buying ticket that
you would in buying anything else. Assure
Yourself in advance of what you may expect
in the way of comfort and convenience EN-
route If there is any information you want
about prospective trip, write me. | will
gladly give you the information. Address
w. S. ST. GEORGE
General Passenger Agent, NJ *. & I. R'y
ST. Louis, Missouri
w. T.. LINDSAY.
$40 Robert Street. st. Paul Mimi.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
Echo of Bribery Charge.

Friends of Secretary of State Houser
say that if Insurance Commissioner
Host begins proceedings based on the
charge that the secretary offered
50 900 bride in behalf of the Equitable
Life Assurance society that official will
retaliate by accusing Host of taking
out a $4,000 policy in the Northwest
ern Mutual Life Insurance company
soon after an examination of the COM
pany on which he made a favorable
report Friends of Host say he has
proof he paid full premiums for his in
surance in the Northwestern.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
To Hear Arguments May 90

At the request of the attorneys for
the New York Mutual and the Home
Life Insurance companies of New
York city the attorney general set May
% as the date for hearing on Insur-
ance Commissioner Hosts letter ask
ing advice as to what action, if any,
he should take in view of the testi-
mony of the general agents of these
two companies before the legislative
insurance investigation committee
that they were disregarding the laws
of the state by writing long deferred
dividend policies
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
Appeal for Reassessment.

The state tax commission has taken
under consideration the appeal by the
village of North Milwaukee for a re-
assessment of the entire county. If
granted it would cost $25, 900, of which
the city of Milwaukee would pay 500
600. North Milwaukee claims it paid
SOAP more than was just. The COM
mission has reserved decision
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
Suicide of Wealthy Man.

T. B. Wheelock, 81 years old. a
wealthy resident of Moline, ILL.,,
drowned himself IN a horse watering
tank at the Battle Creek sanitariup at
South Madison He had been at the in
stitution two days, but had been suf-
fering from i'll health for several
wears.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
Bishop,s Address a Sensation.

A paper written by Archbishop Mess
mer of Milwaukee diocese, which was
read before the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon
League convention at Madison, has
caused a sensation. Archbishop Mess
mer is now on his way to Europe and
his paper was read by a clergyman
whom lie delegated to the task. That
moderate enjoyment Of an exhilarating
liquor is no greater wrong than the en-
joyment of n cooling dish of ice cream
or plate of citron favored blue points
was one of the contentious contained
in the address.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
Collar Town.

Teacher-Tommy, can you tell me
anything about Helen of Troy?
Tommy-Sure. She lived in Troy,
on de Hudson river, an supported her
widowed mudder an little brudder by
workin' in collar factorys-C Chicago
Daily News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
Her Legal Status.

The Dominine-Are you your moth
sr's little darling?
Baby Ethel-Only half the time.
You see the court decided that papa
Eas to have me for six months every
Year-The Wasp.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31

When / saw pa clinging to the sad
die which had got loose from the
horse that he was riding when he
jassooed the black steer around the
belly, and the steer was running away,
dragging pa and the saddle across the
plains, | thought / never would see
him alive again. But the cowboys
said they would bring his remains
back all right When they rode away
to capture the steer and release pa,
/ stopped crying and laid down under
the chuck wagon with the dogs, to
think over what / would do, alone in
the world, and | must have fallen
asleep, for the newt thing / knew
the dogs barked and woke me up, and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
Author Of Peck's Bad Boy Abroad. Etc
CC0DJrirht By J. B. Bowies.I

Pa, the Bad Boy and a Band Of Cow
boys Go in Search of a Live Di-
nosaurus-The Expedition Is Cap
tured by Gang of Train Robbers
and Pa Is Held for Ransom.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
f--A.--~
KIT
Travel Right
to Oklahoma

The Missouri, Kansas & Texas
R'y has recently inaugurated addi-
tional daily train for Oklahoma City,
Guthrie, Cleveland, Bartlesville,
Coffeyville, etc. With this added
service the M. X. & T. R'y is the
logical line between St. Louis and
Kansas City and all principal points
IN Oklahoma
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31

Change OF cars is one OF the greatest
inconVeniences of travel You don't
have TO change cars il you travel via
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway.
Through trains tower its own rails run
between ST. Louis and Kansas City and
Oklahoma City, Dallas, IT. Worth, San
Antonio and Galveston. All through
trains have Chair Cars and Pullman
2lappers
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31
A WOMAN'S ORDEAL
BREADS DOCTOR'S QUESTIONS

There can be no more terrible ordeal
to delicate, sensitive, refined woman
than to be obliged to answer certain
questions in regard to her private ills,
even when those questions are asked
by her family physician, and many
New-York tribune., 1906-12-09

dressing gown After few remarks upon our
magazine arrangements. ne said ne wanted me to
witness his signature to- what for a moment
thought his Will: but it turned out to be a
deed rcnunciatory OF holy orders. under the Act of
1870. He said grmiy that he really a reverend
he thought ii well To himself adrift of a
calling for which. to the least. he had always
been utterly unfit. The deed executed with
due fOTmality. Our conversation then turned upon
thcolOgeS decayed and defunct the origin of things
the constitution of matter. the unreaty of time
wasted much time systems of religion and meta
physics. and that the theory of vortex rings
had staggering fascination Tor him.
Human as he was. thinker he lived in u
kind of dry light. and at the university he i'm
presses us as the kind of man who would in
evitabiy reach the mood indicated in Mr.
Hardy's aneceote The record of his spiritual
development may however, be traced in his
published works We are more concerned here
with the concrete facts of his earthly pilgrim
age with his entrance into journalism. and.
thereafter, his adoption of literature as call
ing. He soon discovered the joys of Alpine
climbing. and gave. first and last. considerable
time TO those exercises of which he wrote with
such fervor in The Playground of Europe, -
but though he always man for relaxation
and amusement, he was no less assiduous as a
worker One result of his visit to this country
at the time of the Civil War. vigorous
pamphlet against the attitude of The London
New-York tribune., 1906-12-09

THE PRISONER AT THE BAR SiteIishts a..
Arthnr Train Svo pp. WI 54e Charles Srib-
ner's Sons
Assistant District Attorney Trains hook -
not without a serious purpose. and u IL z" he
hoped that some of his recommendations for the
simplifying and expediting OF criminal proceed
ure may result in the legislation necessary -
bring them into effect But whether the volume
is read from the standpoint of the possible Grim
inaI who may desire 10 inform himself oil t''
routine through which he must pass TO trial
verdict and sentence. or from that OF the cltH u
interested in the orderly administration OF ias-
tice. 10 which he may be called upon at any ti'''
TO contribute as complainant. juryuan or WI
ness it will be found as entertaining Is it Is
likewise illuminating and suggestive. The al
thor makes free use OF anecdotes TO inustrat"
his points and many of them are highly anus
ing Thus. in spite of the grave and often de-
pressing nature of his topic. he succeeds in iE-
vesting it with interest considerably exceed
ing that of the ordinary nOvei-an encOmiuul.
which if he is much given to the perusaI OF cur
rent fiction he may not regard excessive
compliment.
One object of the book is 70 divest the mind
of the public of the impression il gets OF the
ordinary of criminal procedure through th'
sensational reports of sensational trials in sew
sational newspapers. In successive chapters
the author conducts the reader through the en-
tire process followed in the case OF the III
the street who has been accused of an tufrlctiNn
of the law We witness his arrest. his arraisu-
ment in the police court. the action of the grand
jury. his trial. the conduct Of the judge. tn
petty jury, the witnesses and the attorneys.
learn how the verdict is arrived at and how t5'
sentence is determined and pronounced \ S'0-
arate chapter is devoted 10 Women IN J5.'
Courts. and in three others the author 81, X
TO lind answers TO the question. What Is
Crime Who Are the Real Criminals unI
What Fosters Crime
one curious fact brought out by Mr. Train is
that few professional criminals ,trr ever t1-f
in the courts The reason for this is twof,IL