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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
GREAT SHIP ON ROCKS
STEAMER VALENCIA AT MERCY
OF PACIFIC STORM.
Reef OF Vancouver Island, Long
Dreaded by Mariners, Is Obstruc-
ton Upon Which Vessel Is Dash
ed-Many Reported Lost.

The steamer Valencia of me Pacific
Coast Steamship Company's fleet on
the San Puget Sound route,
with ninety-nine passengers and a
crew Of fifty on board, went ashore on
the rocks at the base of a precipitous
cliff on the most inaccessible section of
the Vancouver Island coast The Va
lencia drove on to the rocks during a
| dense fog while trying to make the
entrance Of Juan de Fuca strait early
Tuesday.
Although only the most meager in
formation Of the wreck was obtain
able up to a late hour, it is known
that several lives were lost in attempts
to reach the shore. Exactly how many
persisted in this way and in the first
confusion attending the wreck is not
definitely known.
The Valencia sailed from San Fran
cisco Saturday evening and carried up
ward of 100 passengers and sailors
At noon Tuesday she was to have tied
to her pier in Seattle harbor. Instead,
bits of her wreckage were being dash
ed wildly against the cliffs and the
sands of the beach of Vancouver ISL
and.
OF those on board when the vessel
went down, only nine are known to
have got to land and safety. These
were picked up by Indians on the
west coast of Vancouver, near a fish
ing village known as Carmanah 1t is
learned from these that the Valencia
struck the rocks near Beale Point. In
an instant she was sinking. Out of
the blackness of the waters arose a
false light which beckoned her to
death. She dashed upon the reef witIr
out warning. And like Il shell, she
was ground into fragments. Those
who escaped did so clinging to parti-
cles of the wreckage.
The accident happened when half
the passengers were in their state
rooms. Some were undressed None
was prepared to take to the below
ing waves. In the west the clouds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01

were lack. Far over the mountain tops
to the east fell the gray streaks of APP
preaching dawn. The survivors re-
port incidents of the most narrowing
character.
Crash Comes without Warming.
When the boat crashed upon the hid
den reefs a gale was blowing. Huge
waves were being dashed over deck ana
bridge. But now that making port
was but matter Of a little While the
officers were not alarmed. In an in
slant came the grinding notes.-the
noise of a monster boat going rapidly
by wind and steam, striking at full
speed one of the great, heavy rocks.
And then out of cabin and saloon
there arose the frantic screams of de-
spair. No one had warning. The first
the passengers felt was the crash. Then
followed the sweep of the sea. Now
came the quick plunge to escape the
sinking craft. Some went down with
it. Some plunged headlong against the
concealed rocks, to be dashed to in
SrdQI OedI1. Olu6IS NeIS plShCo up ny
the waves and carried to open waters.
There a few held fast to floating tim
bers, and these, blown by the gale driv-
ing madly from the west, were brought
to safety. How many thus were res
cued is not known.
The Valencia was owned by the Pa
cific> Coast Steamship Company and
was being used as an extra boat in
the California and Alaska trade. At
ter the recent accident to the steamer
City of Pueblo she was placed in the
Seattle-San Francisco trade in connec-
ton with her sister ships, the Umatilla
ana the Queen. Last summer the Val
encia was on the Nome run and was
one of the best known vessels on the
coast. She has brought to Seattle mil
lions of gold and thousands of fortu-
nate, returning miners.
The scene of the wreck is 100 miles
north of Vancouver and near a barren
coast
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
All Over the State.

Stanley B. Smith, president Of the
First National bank of GAINESVILLE, is
dead.
Paul Anker prominent resident OF
Waukechon, was killed while at work in
John Kadletz's sawmill.
B. F. Smith of Virginia has obtained
control for himself and associates of the
old Lafayette lead mine in Lafayette
county.
Marcus Drummel, a Milwaukee saloon
keeper, was shot ;.nd probably fatally
wounded by two masked hold-up men.
who fled without robbing the place.
While changing belts in a Cashton feed
mill Rudolph Solheim, aged -, a foreign
err, was caught in the shafting, sustaining
frightful injuries from which he died
three hours later.
John Mateska, who shot and killed
Felix Wargin at La Crosse, while pre-.
pairing to mask as a cowboy was dis
charged from custody. He didn't know
the gun was loaded.
Wilburn Markins of Juneau county
was taken to La Crosse and arraigned
before Judge Fruit for burglary. He
Dledueu Pulll4 anu W do SthltilCtu " hAiC
penitentiary for three gears.
Edward Moe of Rice Lake was stab.
bed in the leg, it is alleged, by Axel
Peterson, who threatened to whip three
young men. The trio threw him to the
floor. and Peterson. they charge, drew
blade and stabbed Moe. He will re-
cover. Peterson is in Jail.
The capitol building commission has
taken a new start toward the building of
a new statehouse to cost SJ,000,000. The
commission enaged L. f. Porter. a Madi-
son architect, to prepare plans for
capitol. 1t is understood that an entire
ly new proposition has been undertaken.
The work of reconstruction or renewal
will be gradual, one wing costing not to
exceed 100000. being constructed first.
Mrs. Isaac Stephenson, wife of the
richest man in Wisconsin and liberal con-
tributor to all of Senator La Foliette's
campaigns, joined the Christian Science
church Jan. A. Eight years ago she
sought Christian Science, she says, not
because she believed in it, but because
she wished to be cured from an ailment
which her physicians had pronounced in
curable She says she found complete
cure.
Mrs Mary Hunt of Beloit is 104 years
old. She is seemingly as bright mentally
as at any time in her life and is in good
health She reads of the events of the
times, discusses them with interest and
writes well.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
RUNAWAY HUSBANDS.
New York. Authorities Are Trying
to Find 10000 of Them.

to Find 10000 of Them.
According to the testimony of those
who know, the New York authorities at
present are trying to trace the where
abouts of upwards of 10000 runaway
husbands. Chicago has $4,000. What a
vast burden is thus thrust on the COM
munity at large by individual Sinking
of the responsibilities of the married
state can we'll be imagined; and the
evil is growing at such rapid rate that
the powers that be have become alarm
ed.
One of New Yorks best known mag
istrates has declared that the matter is
the gravest problem that the city has
TO deal with; and ministers of all de-
nominations have borne testimony to the
callous indifference shown by husbands
towards their marriage vows. In some
cases it is the wife who deserts the hus-
band. but that is the exception, in nine
ty-nine cases out of a hundred the re-
verse being the fact. The most signif-
cant feature of those wholesale deser-
lions is that in nearly every instance the
runaway husband leaves two or three
children, as we'll as a wife, as a tax on
the community.
There are exceedingly few desertions
of childless wives, which clearly shows
that the object of the desertion is to
evade the responsibility of providing for
a family.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
CT ApTER w

1t was on the ensuing morning that
Starlight visited the lodge where the
interview already mentioned took place
between her and Allan Norwood.
There was a great commotion at the
village when It was known that Fanny
Uarrod had escaped. \ council was i'm
mediately called to see what should be
done While they were gravely smok-
ing the pipe. as an Indispensable pre-
liminary, Otter-Lifter appeared among
them. One warrior arose and advised
that the warriors be punished who had
been appointed to watch over the cap
tive, which duty they had not faithfully
performed. Another recommended that
small war party be instantly dispatch
ed in pursuit of the captive. Otter
LITTER arose calmly to his feet and looked
deliberately around upon the faces of the
assembled chiefs and warriors.
1T was my hand that liberated the
young white woman" he said. 81 re-
ioice that / did so, because it is a deed
that will give me pleasure whenever
think of it. | sent the Pale-Lily under
an escort of my warriors; and by this
time she is far beyond pursuit. If these
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
TAVERNS OF EDINBURGH.
They Were Very Popular Resorts
with III CIasSeS of Men.


with All Glasses of Men.
Some excuse may be found for the
universal devotion to tavern life
which formerly prevailed in Edinburgh
in the harshness of the northern win
ter, says the London Globe. ut is one
of the Yilest climates under heaven"
wrote Stevenson, as if he shivered at
the remembrance of it; you are liable
to be beaten upon by all the winds
that blow, to be drenched with rain,
to be buried in cold sea fogs out of
the east, or to be powdered with the
snow as it comes flying southwark
from the Highland hills"
1t is small wonder that a Scots
mans ideal of enjoyment should have
been a warm coy corner by the fire
side in one of the innumerable
''hOwfs' or laughs" taverns and oys-
ter cellars which studded the closes
on either side of the High street, or
that every poet, from Allan Ramsay to
Ferguson and Burns should have
sung of the delights Of the joyous
evenings at John Dowie's or the
Crochallan club, with high jinks, the
uproarious mirth, the hilarious songs,
when the air was thick with the steam
from the punch bowls.
Another reason for the popularity of
the tavern was the cramped space and
limited accommodation in the tall flats
and lands, where a large family was
often crowded into a couple of small
rooms. There could be no comfort or
social enjoyment in such narrow quar-
tiers, and so the tavern became the
mutual rendezvous for business and
pleasure, and it was here that doctors
would see their patients, lawyers in
terview their clients and tradesmen
time had not long passed since the
lord provost Of the day would invite
his guests to supper at Clerihugh's or
Fortunes.
Even men of the highest social posi-
ton preferred the ease and freedom
from restraint at the "howf" to the
decorous dullness of their own fire
sides and just as the Baron of Brad
wardine's guests left the castle to fin
ish the evening in the genial license
Of Luck:e MaCAlrOy's tavern. so Lord
COckbUrn il his youth saw some dozen
of the aristocracy of Midlothian, in
Guiding the Duke of Buccleugh and
the lord advocate, crowded in the low
rooted room of a village ale house,
making the rafters echo with songs
and toasts and uproarious festiyity.
These taverns varied in degree and
quality from the larger and more fash
ionable 'howfs,' frequented by the
lords of ses 'ions, the great advocates
and men of letters, to the humble
''laigh Shops" where clerks and shop
assistants repaired after the days
work and where fun and merriment
were as unrestrained as at "Poosie
Nancy's," which sheltered the Jolly
Beggars." The prices-for eatables,
at all events-ruled low, and at many
of the clubs with strange and con-
vivial names, of which the humor has
now evaporated, a man might sup fru-
gaIly off collops or a paddock or a
roasted skate and onions for a few
pence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
FRANCE AND VENEZUELA.
Cause of the Present Rupture b
tween the Two Governments.

tween the Two Governments.
The rupture between France and
Venezuela has resulted Immediately
from the latter's refusal to recognize
the French diplomatic representative.
France persuaded President Castro to
withdraw his offensive note, but could
not induce him to deal with u Taigny,
the French charge d'affaires, although
declaring that the official act which
made him obnoxious, was exactly in
accordance with directions from the
French foreign office. France assumed
all responsibility in the matter, but
this was not sufficient to satisfy Pres
ident Castro, who appears to have
taken personal dislike to NJ. Taigny.
OF course, the original cause of the
strained relations between France and
Venezuela was the alleged failure Of
the French Cable Company to live up
to its franchise obligations, and this
alleged failure appears to have appeal
ed all the more urgently to President
Castro, because of the Cable Com
pany's assistance to reyOlutioniSts
whom President Castro at the time
was engaged in suppressing. Indeed,
the Cable Company was charged by
President Castro with supplying the
revolutionists botL information and
money, and whether this is true or not,
it served as an excellent pretext for
giving the Cable Company's failures
in other directions immediate atten-
ton. The French government entered
protest, President castro answered
smartly and it was in the ensuing con-
troversy that NJ. Taigny incurred
President Castros disfavOr.
France has a large fleet in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Venezuela, and
will probably use it, if it shall fail to
adjust matters through the agency Of
the American minister who now repre-
sents the French foreign Office. But
whether or not France employs force
in compelling Castro to behave de-
Gently, it is a foregone conclusion that
Venezuela will receive little, if any,
encouragement from this country. 1t
is not impossible that France may be
even joined by the United States in her
efforts to compel respect for foreign
interests.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
A PernIeNed Poet.

An Indiana poet recently sent a po-
EN-, accompanied by the following
note, to the editor of a magazine:
Dear Sir-I have written these
lines for your consideration"
Instead of getting the ordinary re-
lection slip lie received this reply:
"Why?"
He is still wondering whether he
ought to explain or not.-Chicago Rec.
ord Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
DIVORCE WAS NO JOKE.
Sharon Man Must Now Stand Suit
Brought by Wife.

Luther Arnold, a wealthy farmer, mer-
chant and cattle buyer of Sharon. has
been served with summons in an action
for divorce brought by his wife. Cruel
and inhuman treatment and the trump
ing up of charges, in order that he might
secure divorce, and infdelity are charg-
ed in the complaint. Last August Ar
mold was granted a divorce at Kenosha
Mrs. Arnold failed to appear in court
the summons and complaint having been
given her by a son, as she believed a
joke was being practiced on her. When
she found that a decree had been grant
ed she had it set aside.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
Wisconsin
State News
Insurance Business in This State
Will Be Thoroughly Gone Into.

I'VE propose to make the most thor
ough and complete investigation of life
insurance that can be made and one that
the people will have full confidence in.
No other would be satisfactory or any
thing but a farce. 1t necessarily would
take a long time and entail quite an ex-
pense but we believe the people will be
satisfied with the investment" So spoke
Senator Roehr, of the special insurance
investigating committee appointed at a
recent special session of the Legislature
to look into the subject of life insur
ance in this State. The committee met
for the first time in the State capitol the
other day and organized by selecting
Senator Frear chairman and Assembly
man Ekern secretary. Other prelimi
narieS to organization and investigation
were made and after session an adj
Journment was taken for about two
weeks. When all the details have been
arranged the investigation will be car
ried on from Milwaukee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
GOOD SCHOOL RECORD,
MenOmonie Claims Banner as Elk
ponent of Anti-Race Suicide Idea.

Menomonie Claims Banner as Elk
ponent of Anti-Race Suicide Idea.
Menomonie has more children in pro-
portion TO its population attending its
public schools than any other city in the
United States, according to State Sena-
tor James H. Stout. who told President
Roosevelt of the wonderful record of his
home, while calling upon him in COM
pany with Senator Spooner. Senator
Stout is a multi-millionaire who believes
in giving his money to help primary edu-
cational institutions instead of colleges
and universities. He has established 500
circulating libraries throughout Wiscon-
sin in connection with public schools,
and has also assisted them in other
ways. He said that out of population
of $500 the town of Menomonie had
1000 children attending the public
schools, record he claimed was not
eQualed anywhere else in the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
BANK GETS BAD CHECKS.
Racine Institution Suffers from AL
Legged E0rceris.a.

Charles w. Bingham, who, it is al
legged, has been issuing forged checks and
drafts on the Manufacturers National
bank of Racine. is not known in that
city. For more than six weeks these
checks have been coming in from differ
ent cities of the country. B. B. Nor
throp, cashier of the bank, says that in
some manner the alleged Bingham had
secured one of their check books. He
estimates that perhaps half dozen bo-
gus checks for from $50 to $50 have
come in, and also a number of drafts.
Some of them were from Augusta. Fla,
Charleston, 5. c., New York, and also
Michigan towns.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
VICTIM MADE HUMAN TORCH.
Wisconsin Men Accused of Tortur-
ing Companion After Quarrel.

ing Companion After Quarrel.
Making a human torch of companion
Is the story of an outrage said to be
unparalleled in the history of Wisconsin
and charged to an Indian and French
Canadian now in Jail at Hayward. Joe
Buckwheat and Joe Lebouff attended a
dance near Winters. and it is alleged that
after quarrel with another man they
caught him in the woods, saturated his
clothing with alcohol, set him on fire and
thrust knives into his body. When the
flames had enveloped the entire body of
the victim, it is said. the tormentors,
fearing the consequences of the possible
murder, cut the clothing from his body,
thereby burning their hands badly AL
though the man will live. his hair is said
to be entirely gone, and that he is ter
ribly burned. His knife wounds are also
SeriOuS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01

Competent statisticians declare that
twenty-five acres of land are neces-
sary to sustain one man on fresh meat
The same space of land, if devoted to
wheat culture, would feed II people:
if to oats, IS; potatoes, Indian corn and
rice, 176, and if to the plaintain or
banana, over 5000 people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01

were lack. Far over the mountain tops
to the east fell the gray streaks OF ap-
preaching dawn. The survivors re-
port incidents of the most narrowing
chara'cfpr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01

ago and came to the United States in
1851. He was for number of terms
president of the New York Produce
Exchange and served several years
as president of the Chamber of Com
MERGE
-
1t is stated that Winston Churchill
is to receive the sum of $4,000 down
and royalties for his biography of his
father, the late Lord Randolph Church
i'll.
Mr.. Akiopi is soon to bring over 300
families from Japan, who will settle in
Bee county, Texas, to engage in tea
farming and silk culture.
-
Julien Tiersot, the noted French au-
thor, is at present lecturing in this coun-
try. He is librarian of the National
Conservatory in Paris and author Of
several works on music.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
CHAPTER XXI.

lnnis Mckee cast a lingering and anX-
ious look at the scout. and then languidly
resumed her seat by the dim and ftfully
blazing fire. She reflected upon her own
isolated and friendless condition. She
wondered if the woodsman really felt an
interest in such an untaught being as
She felt herself to be. He had given
utterance to sentiments that had sound
ed most pleasantly to her ears: she had
never had such words addressed to her
before
While she recalled his earnest manner
and subdued tones, she felt herself less
wretched. and encouraged trembling
hope of a brighter future to come at
some very distant day. The kindly
words of the scout were like so many
notes of music elected from what APP
peared to Ter the disordered harp of
human society.
Restless and uneasy, she sat until the
clouds were crimson with the dawning,
Her mother awolle from her heavy SUM
Der and looked about the dim and
gloomy tavern with a duh and vacant
stare. Fer eyes wandered mechanically
to the spot where Ballard had been left
by her husband: her apathy was gone
she was fully awake.
He is gone" said Innis. in answer to
her startled and inquiring look. Hes
free
And YOU
Assisted him." added the girl.
Ne more was said by either party.
Mrs. Mckee produced pipe. and ex-
| Aaled column after column of smoke
with Indian stoicisn; and Innis en-
deavored to initiate her Indifference.
This mode of life does not please me,
and care but little what happens"
| said the latter, after a long interval of
! the deepest silence.
Mrs. Mckee made no rejoinder, but
buried herself in the fumes of the to-
| bacco.
The young women at Boonesborough
lead better life; they have been taught
many things which l know nothing
about. l shall go there and see them,
perhaps"
Innis ceased speaking. for she heard
her fathers footsteps The color forsook
her face, and she instinctively pressed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
SHE MARRIED TO ROB HIM.
Marinette Man Says DOttie Wilson
Stole $500 Soon After Wedding.

Threatening to commit suicide, it is
alleged by the police, Hilmer Sherman,
a Marinette man, was picked up by an
officer and placed in Jail. The other
night in Menominee, he was married to
a woman saying she was Dottie Wilson.
She remained with him for two days,
since which time he was unable to find
her, he says. She had arisen during the
night and fled from the town with $500
belonging to Sherman, his savings of
year. The police charge that the woman
deliberately married Sherman in order to
rob him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
In Contest for Children.

Mrs. Lillian Clifford McCabe of Mil
waukee has filed a petition in Circuit
Court in Oshkosh for a revision of the
judgment granting her the legal GUS
tody of the children. Otis and Marion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01
AWARD WHIPPED PUPIL 800.

Accused school Teacher May Have
to Pay Amount of Damages.
Charged with Furnishing a school boy.
Frank Last, so severely that the lads
left shoulder was dislocated and he was
i'll for a long time, George L. Arnold,
formerly principal of Smith public school
in Oshkosh, may have to pay the boys
guardian $400. In the trial of the case
in the Circuit Court the jury brught i'll
special verdict giving the plaitniff
that amount of damages. Mr.. Arnold
denied that he punished the boy Suffi-
GENTLY to injure him. He declares he
will appeal the case to the higher court
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01

The State civil service commission has
completed the marking and grading of
the applicants for readers of examina-
ton papers and ten of eighteen passed.
Five of the eligibles have already been
got work