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Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-13

community is not a matter for news
paper comment unless there Is a public
interest involved. It is then, and then
only, that the News will give attention
thereto. This points out the difference
in, conception Of the profession. The
public will understand it, if the little
iackalls Of journalision do not.
It is not at all unusual that newspapers
under criminal and civil prosecution
resort to continual stream of personal
abuse. The situation suggests it, and
those who work themselves into such
state Of affairs usually are of the
abusive nature. The public understands
this-hence we pay very little attention
to it.
But the summing up time comes and
all these journalistic misdemeanors
count. 1t has we'll been said that
.whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad''.
There were certain things that the
| News felt needed attention during the
campaign. It discussed them not the
personality of the parties involved,
What we might or might not have
truthfully said about the persons IS not
material. The fact is that a majority
of the people decided the political ques-
tion-for the immediate present at
least the News was inclined to
dismiss the subject. The principles
then discussed will become seasonable
subjects for sensible comment in the
future, when the News will again dis
cuss them. In the meantime there are
other matters that deserve attention.
AS to the vicious personal abuse of
the Budget we merely remark that it
will all be taken care Of in the Deem
Der term of court. We have done our
part. We have had H. w. True placed
under bonds in criminal action and as
defendant in two civil actions. That
ought to suffice, but if At doesn't we
shall proceed farther.
The News believes that we live in a
community where decency, as was said
of right, will Finally and powerfully
prevail" and where excuseless per
sonal attacks, especially in malignant
and odious form will be severely con-
demned.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-13
A. N. ANDERSEN.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Receivers Sale.

Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to the Order of the District Court of
the United States of the Western Dis
trict of Wisconsin, the undersigned as
Receiver of the First National Bank of
Ladysmith, Wisconsin, will, on the 9th
day of October, A. D., 1906, at the
hour of ten C0) o'clock a. m. of that
dav. at the office of the undersigned in
the said city of Ladysmith, Wisconsin,
sell at Public sale to the highest and
best bidder therefore, a lot Of notes
and claims against various porties, the
same being a part of the assets Of the
said First National Bank, and now due
and owing to the said Bank and to the
undersigned as such Receiver, the same
to be sold in parcels as desired by bid
ders and agreed to by the undersigned
aud terms of sale to be cash, payable
at time of sale. The list and descrip-
ton of the property and effects, so to
be sold, can be examined at said office
of said Receiver at any time before the
date of sale and property to be sold can
be examined before date of sale by any
intending purchaser or bidder. The
Receiver reserves the right, by order
of court and on certain conditions, to
dispose of any of the property, prior to
the date of sale.
P. R. Earring.
Receiver of the First National Bank of
:. Ladysmith, Wis.
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Summons.
denned.

State of Wisconsin, Circuit Court,
Rusk county.
Annie Profit, plaintiff, VS.. August
Profit, defendant.
State of Wisconsin to the said de1en-
dants:
You are hereby summoned to app ear
within twenty days after se4vice of
this summons upon you, exclusive OF
the day of service, and defend the
above entitled action, in the court
aforesaid, and in case of your failure
so to do, judgment will be rendered
against you, according to the demands
of the complaint, a copy OF which is
herewith served upon you.
THEODORE M. THOMAS,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
P. 0. address, Ladysmith, Rusk Co.,
Wis.
The summons and complaint in the
above entitled action are on file in the
office of Clerk of Circuit Court, Rusk
county, Wisconsin.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-13

Redistribution of Swollen" Fortunes.
President Rooseveltis said to have in
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-13
Continues It's Abuse.

The Budget continues it's abuse of
the editor of the News. It amounts to
nothing simply the calling of names.
Any blackguard can do. that. We can
do it too, but we don't for two reasons
first, because it ism It right, and, second
because it doesn't pay. The jackalls
of journalism know no better and are
fitted for nothing better.
The News believes in progressive,
constructive journalism. The personal
itv of an individual or a faction or g
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Sixteen Per Cent Dividends.


Elsewhere we reproduce from the Wall
Street Journal an article on the Hill poll
CIV of limiting dividends to Z per cent.
The article was melted by Vice Presl-
dent Farrington's statement in the rate
investigation before our state commits
sion that it had always been Mr.. Hills
policy to limit dividends to that figure.
Mr.. harrington stated farther that the
surplus earnings above expenses and Z
per cent stock dividends were used IN
making extensions of the lines and i'm
provements, and when the expenditure OF
surplus thusmade amounted to$25, 100000
stock was issued to that amount and
offered to present holders at par in the
ratio of one share of new to each five
shares of old stock held by them.
Very interesting reading will this an
alysis be to those partner" of Mr.. Hill,
the people along the lines of his railway,
who have Furnished the freightage and
paid the rates which have made possible
this astounding system of finance, by
which those why pay the freight are not
only made to furnish the money with
which extensions are built and improve
ments m"de, but from which his other
partners, the stockholders, get not mere
ly the per cent dividends, but what
amounts to an average during the seuen-
teen years of operation of this system
of finance, to 16 per cent.
The Great Northern swallowed the
other companies in 1889. 1t was notuntil
1893 that the system made its first issue
of SIS, 900, 600 stock torepresent the accu-
mutation of surplus, and the market
value of the right of stockholders to take
the new stock was SIS per share. By
1898, in spite of the panic and strikes,
the surplus had gathered to $25, 900, 900
and. with the market value of stock at
176, the value of the right to take the
new stood; including the annual per
cedt divinend was Silica share. To 1905
these stock issues to represent surpluses
went on, and the total increase aggre-
gates $104, 900, 600. Starting in 1889 with
capital stock of 500, 900, 900, the system
has evolved a cabital of about $3.50, 000,
600, and "of the difference all but $685.
600, 900 has been sold to the stockholders
at par or less"
Averaging the values of these rights
to fresh issues of stock, the Wall Street
Journal demonstrates that the market
value of these rights to new issues,
whether sold on the market or used in
getting additional stock amounted to$186
per share in seventeen years, which,
added to the $3.50 received from the divi-
dends, Limited to 7 per cent, makes
$272, or an annual average of Is per
cent dividend.
All this but reinforces and makes in
vincible the contention of the Dispatch
that the true standard for measuring
reasonableness of rates is the market
value of stocks, and when they go above
par it is conclusive proof that rates are
too high. st. Paul Dispatch.
Redistribution of Swollen" Fortunes
President Rooseveltis said to have in
~S
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Read about Indians And Outdoor Lii

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WANTED Enough men and boys t

WANTED Enough men and boys to
buy our entire line of suits, pants and
hats which will be closed out at greatly
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Now is the time to purchase. Come
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You cannot afford to miss this chance
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LADYsMITH MERCANTILE Co.
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Land For Sale.

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The above for sale at SIS per acre.
Good farming lands, accessible and fine
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Warranty deed.
DR.. CORNELIUS WILLIAMS.
I36 West 4th St., st. Paul, MINI.
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STATE or WISCONSIN, DEPART.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, DEPART
ment of State, IS.
To Silver Star Creamery; National
Investment 4 Collection Co.; Apollonia
Land Improvement & Colonization Co.
Notice is hereby given you and each
of you that having failed to comply
with the requirements of Sections {
and Z Of Chapter 507, of the Laws of
1905, blanks for which were sent yor
as therein required now unless yop
make such compliance by filing here
the report and affidavit as therein re-
CURED, and pay the fees for printing
this notice, before January 1st, 1907,
he rights and franchises of each one
so failing to comply will be duly for
feited March l, 1907.
W. T.. HOUSER,
Secretary of State.
Dated Sept. %, 1906. 1O-1s
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STATE OF WISCONSIN, DEPART

STATE OF w lOOONOlN, LEI AN
ment of State, IS.
To Glen Flora Mfg. Co.
Flambeau Town Company.
Flambeau Industrial Co.
Flambeau Improvement & Loan Co.
Bruce Creamery Assn.
Robert Corbett Lumber Co.
Newman Land & Cattle Co.
: Level Land Swivel Plow Co.
Ladysmith Light & Power Co.
Ladysmith Gas Light & Power Co.
Nickle Plate Mining Co.
Gates County Land Co.
Gates County Abstract Co.
Robert Corbett Lumber Co.
Gates County Mercantile Co.
Notice is hereby given you and each
of you that having fai ed to comply
with thu requirements of Sections )
and of Chapter 507, of the Laws of
1905 b anks for which were sent you
as therein require now, unless you
make such compliance by filing here
the report and affidavit as therein re-
quired, and pay the fees for printing
this notice, before January LIST, 1907,
the rights and franchises of each one
so failing to comply will be Gully for
feited March /, 1907.
w. L. HOUSER,
Secretary of State.
Dated Oct. 8, 1906. 1O-ls
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Guided In a draft OF his annual message
to congress- a recommendation for the
necessary legislation for national tax
on inheritances, graduated in such man
ner that it would take from the power OF
the owner of the fortunes Swollen be-
yond all healthy limits, = to pass on to
anv one individual more than reason
able amount of property.
The president suggested this idea at
the time he made what was called his
"muck- rake speech" last spring, and it
attracted good deal of attention
throughout the country. We believe it is
the solution of the question growing out
of the enormous accumulations of prop
erty in few hands; for that is ques-
ton that awaits solution.
The idea is that it is not good thing
for the country to have it's wealth SO
largely owned by few persons. 1t is
difficult proposition to provide against
the accumulation of property by any
citizen, if legally done, and not at the
expense of other citizens, during his
lifetime; or to say to him that he may
not accumulate more than a certain
amount, for how long shall he be ac-
cumulating the permitted amount, and
what shall he do during the remainder
of his life?
The figures representing the accumu-
lations of such an estate as that of
Marshall Field, tied up as he tied his,
after the forty years life of the trust, =
are startling Imagine John D. Rookie
Teller putting his estate into the hands
of trustees, to administer for long
term of years, and see what the prop
erty would represent at the end of the
time, say forty years!
Or if the property is passed on to the
heirs at the time of the death of the
present owner, and they turn out to be
capable of caring for it, what will it
amount to at the end of their lives?
There would have to be definite
limit. What should it be? Ten mil
lions? Suppose it is ten millions. The
earnings of ten millions fairly invested,
would be from half million to mil
lion year,
The ten millions might be accumu-
lated in ten, and the offender have it
in hand at the age of 35, with forty
years to live. At the time of his death
his estate would, by the natural &C.
cretions of simple interest and divi-
dends, be away beyond the safe and
legal limit.
Such planniITgs are fit only for i'm
practicables. They never could come
to anything. There is no way to COM
pei 2 man to stop doing business, and
there is no way of telling him how fast
he may accumulate property, or what
he shall do with it after he gets it.
But it is practicable to tell him what
he may do with it when he comes to
leave it. And here is the safest dis
position of this whole troublesome
question of the concentration of the
wealth of the country in few hands.
If the president presents the subject
to congress, with a recommendation,
it will be brought before the country in
such form that it will continue to &C.
cupy the public mind until it is disposed
of. Milwaukee Free Press.
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Methodist Episcopal Church.

Service in the Christian church Sun
day next at p. m. Subject: Jesus
and the Multitudes. All are welcome.
D. JAYNE, pastor.
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Lutheran Church.

Services Sunday, Oct. 18th. at 2:30,
in the Scandinavian language.
OLAF HILL, pastor.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-13

Have your large posters printed a
the News Office where the equipment is
fine.
Correspondents shonld sign all com
'nunications to the News. We must in
sit upon this requirement.
Baby milk for the baby from the
same COW each day, all the same price.
See Baxter & Goocher.
Our correspondents will do us favor
by writing on only one side of the paper
and signing their articles. Try to let
us have the news each week even if
there be but little.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-13
Summons.

State of Wisconsin, Circuit Court,
Rusk County.
Eugene Sharrow, plaintiff, VS.. Maud
e. !S5ifrrarroW, defendant.
State of Wisconsin to the said Defen-
dant and each of Them:
You are hereby summoned to appear
within twenty days after service of
this summons, exclusive of the day of
service, and defend the above entitled
action in the Court aforesaid, and in
case of your failure so do do, judgment
will be rendered against you according
to the demands Of the complaint, OF
which copy is herewith served upon
you.
A. N. ANDERSEN.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
P. O. Address, Ladysmith, Rusk Co.,
Wisconsin.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-09-25
HEWN CHAMBERS JUST
DISCOVERED IN HOLY CITY
One of Them May Have Been the
Place Where the Christ Was Con-
fned--Picture on Wall Shows
Him in Stocks.

Considerable interest has recently
been awakened in Jerusalem in some
newly opened-up ancient subterranean
rock-hewn chambers which evidently
adjoined, IL they did not form part Of,
Pilates judgment hall. and the pave
ment," or the Gabbatha, of the New
Testament. This was contiguous to
Antonio, the Roman fortress which
bounded the temple area on the north.
AS is we'll known, a considerable area
of this pavement" as it was in the
time of Christ, was uncovered in about
1860, when the Sisters of Zion dug for
foundations for their school and the
Church of Ecce Homo. and now forms
one of the chief objects of interest to
visitors to the Holy City. 1t is in the
property adjoining that of the Sisters
of Zion on the west that the chambers
In question may now be seen. They
are at the base of the hill Bazetha, on
the north side of the Via Dolorosa, in
the scarped face of the rock which,
with its counterscarp on the south, is
thought to have formed the moat on
that side of the fortress of Antonio in
the time of the Romans. There are sew
eral of these rock-hewn chambers, at
different levels, connected with each
other by passages. The upper ones are
small, while one at lower level, semi
circular in form, is larger, and all of
them present unusual features in form
which make it difficult to determine the
use to which they were devoted
whether as mortuary chambers or as
stables and storerooms, or whether, as
is now claimed by the owners who
have opened them to the public for in
spection, they were used as dungeons
and places Of torture in ancient times.
Their adjoining the Roman Judgment
Hall favors the idea of the prison. In
several of the chambers there are holes
in the sides and ceiling at regular in
tervals through which ropes could be
fastened In one of the smaller rooms
there is rock-hewn ledge or bench of
rock, open beneath. with two large
holes through the ledge, which are
claimed to be stocks. There is an iron
eye fixed in the rock beneath the holes
as il to there tie or chain the feet of
the prisoner, while above, in the low
ceiling, there are three places cut out
through which ropes or chains could be
passed, suggesting the fastening up
of his head and outstretched hands.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-09-25

A well known Atlanta minister tells
IN amusing story of an Albanian who
las a vile with sharp tongue.
Jones had come home about two in
The morning rather the worse for a
few highballs. AS soon as he opened
he door lis wife, who was waiting for
aim IN the accustomed place at the
,op Of the stairs, where she could
watch his uncertain assent, started
apbraiding HIN for his conduct.
Jones went to bed, and when he
vas almost asleen could hear her still
1colding him numerically. He drop.
ped off TO s.oep and awoke after a
couple Of hours only 10 hear his wife
femaTk:
Il hope all the women don't have to
put up with such conduct as this''
Annie" said Jones, are you talk.
ng again or yet2.-Atlanta Geor
dan.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-09-25
PRISONS SMOKELESS POWDER
How TT is PUm IN SHELLS FOR
NAVAL PRACTICE.
Some Interesting Inside Information
About the Work Carried On at
the Great Naval Magazine
at Iona Island.

The loading of shells with smoke
less powder for use upon the many
ships of the United States navy is an
industry of large proportions, but one
about which the public seldom hears
and about which it knows practically
nothing. And yet one of the most
important Of the government plants is
the great naval magazine at Iona
island, located about 40 miles from
New York city, on the Hudson. The
strictest of rules prevails as to visit
alton, and about all that the outsider
ever sees is a distant glimpse Of the
buildings from the deck of the
steamer as he sails by.
There are 125 men employed in the
various departments of the plant,
which comprises six spacious brick
and stone powder magazines, 200 by
so feet in size, four shell houses, two
general storehouses and four powder
filling buildings.
re interior of one of the powder
filling houses on the island presents
a novel and animated sight. The
men are required to wear long white
serge suits and moccasins, and no
metal articles are allowed in the
pockets which might cause friction.
All the tools, tunnels, measure cups,
scales and other appliances used are
made of copper. Here the delicate
and somewhat dangerous business of
weighing out the various smokeless
powder charges is done. Even one or
two grams difference in weight is
carefully observed At the Indian
Head proving grounds the naval ordi-
nance experts by tests determine the
powder charge best adapted for the
various guns. These firing charges
are constantly being changed and re-
ivsed, which keeps the filling house
men very active. Daily boxes of
smokeless powder are emptied into a
long wooden trough. The powder
looks like cut up sticks of yellow can
dy with holes punched through them.
With a copper scoop the powder is
dipped out Of the trough, accurately
weighed and tied up in quarter, half
and full charges, in white bags. These
bags have several wide streamers at
tached, and each is tagged with the
date of filling and amount of the pow
der it contains. A small ignition
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-09-25

This chamber, as it appears, is cal
cula,ed to appeal strongly to the Wis
itor and its Greek church custodians
attach to il the idea of it's being the
prison of Christ" a picture in the
chamber representing Him as con-
fined in the stocks. This set of rock
hewn rooms were explored more than
80 years ago by the well-lInown arch
aoOlogist, Cleamont Ganneau, for the
Palestine expedition Fund, in whose
book Excavations in jerusalem
full and minute descriptions of these
chambers wore given. He makes no
mention Of The holes in the slab which
are so suggestive of stocks, or of the
iron staple beneath. He suggested
that this set of chambers may have
communicated in the north with the
quarries of Solomon, from which the
building stones of the temple were
doubtless obtained, and that they
we're used as stables and storerooms.
This would explain the existence of
he many rock-hewn lettering places
the walls.