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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-07
BAD ELEVATOR ACCIDENT.
Loaded Lift Falls from Third Floor
and Fatalities May Result.

Toledo, O., May 4.-Eleven persons
were badly and some possibly fatally
injured last night in an elevator ac-
cident in the wonderland building.
The people had been attending ban
ouet on the third floor of the building
and had just got into the elevator
when the cable parted and the eleva-
tor fell to the basement. Every per
son in the elevator was hurt and all
we're taken to hospital.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-07
NOTICE OF TAX SALE.

9 For the unpaid taxes for the year 1867
State of Wisconsin, sc
County of Villas.
hereby certify that the following list Is a
correct statement of all lands in the county of
Villas, for which the taxes for the year 1905 have
been returned delinquent and now remain un-
paid, excepting public lands held on contract
and lands mortgaged to the state, and notice is
hereby given that so much of each tract or par
eel of land herein described as may be neces-
sary, will on the third Tuesday of May next, be-
ceeding days, be sold by me at public auction,
at my office in the courthouse, in the village of
Eagle River, in said county of Villas, for the
payment of taxes. interest and charges thereon.
Dated this 7th day of April. A. D. 1906.
CHAS. LAU, JR.,
County Treasurer, Villas County, Wisconsin.
By A. G.. MILLER. Deputy.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-07
Posse May lynch Kidnapper.

Dubuque, Ia, May Am armed
posse is searching for man named
Johnson, who is accused of kidnap-
ping a 15-year-old daughter of George
Butler of Waukon Junction. A
brother of the victim is heading the
posse and there is a chance that John
son will be lynched if apprehended.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-07
Asphalt Pavement in Waves.

On made ground there is a notice
able settling of the earth, in many in.
stances this reaching a depth of five
feet. Fissures are in evidence and
on Van Ness avenue the asphalt pave
ment is now in waves, the elevation
reaching height of six inches Con-
crete walks were destroyed by the ac-
ton of the earth and buildings, shaken
by the quake, continued to fall at in
tervals during the day and night so
that moving about the city was ex-
ceedingly dangerous. Mr.. Richards
says that the newspaper views shown
are accurate representations of the
catastrophe, as he saw all the scenes
depicted. Mr.. Richards, who was
badly shaken himself, shook Frisco
Thursday evening, the day after the
quake and was eight days in reaching
Madison from Oakland. He has ac-
cepted the position of night engineer
at the Williamson street station of
the Madison Gas & Electric company
and began his duties Monday He
was in the employ of the company
prior to going to California last July
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-07
GERMANY DESERTS TURKEY.
Will Not Mix in Quarrel With Great
Britain.

London, May 4.-The Standard says
it understands that Count Wolf-Met-
ternich, German ambassador, has N.
formed the British government that
Turkey cannot rely upon German sup
port in the event of a quarrel with
Great Britain.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-07

the launching at Portsmouth, they
having been allowed to freely exam
inc the ship there. Many details re-
main secret and it is not believed that
any power has been able to secure
them.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-07
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

G. H. Finch, NJ P, the father Of
the house of commons" represents
the smallest county in England. He
is II years of age and has represent
ed Rutland since 1861.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-07
n. W. RICHARDS RETURNS FROM
SAN FRANCISCO.
HEARD CRASH OF TIMBERS
Saw Man With Whom He Had Been
Talking IS Seconds Before Crushed
to Death-ln Many Instances
There Was Settling of the Earth
of Five Inches.

H. w. Richards, brother of F. M.
Richards, superintendent OF the Madl-
son Gas & Electric company, has ar
rived in Madison from San Francisco
He was In the Inflated city during
the earthquake and had an exceed
ingly close call from injury and pos
sible death. Mr. Richards was tenn
porarily in the city, being registered
at the Winchester hotel on Third
street, near the famous Call building,
and had been in the city for a week.
On the morning of the quake, Mr..
Richards went down to the ferry
building at 5 to meet his employer,
who was expected to arrive on an
early boat He chatted for a moment
with a man on the covered dock, on
his way to the steamer j. d. Peters,
which runs between San Francisco
and Stockton and had just stepped on
board the vessel when the shock
came The boat was moved to the
piling on the wharf, which vibrated
to such an extent as to jerk the yes
sci violently, throwing men to the
deck with considerable force. Mr..
Richards heard the crash of the huge
timbers supporting the roofs of the
docks and saw the man with whom
he had been conversing not more
than Is seconds before, crushed to
death beneath their massive weight.
This occurred at 5:16 a. m. as the
ferry house clock stopped at that
hour. Mr.. Richards was cut off from
his hotel by fire, and lost all his bag.
gage. He was on the scene of death
and desolation from the moment of
vibration and says the horror will
never fade from his memory, espec-
tally as he recalls the fate of the man
with whom he had been conversing
but a quarter of a minute before the
shock came. Mr.. Richards saw four
men and six teams killed on Clay
street by the falling of the front OF
a brick building and in another in
stance was compelled to witness the
death of II men without being able
to render assistance.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-07
eel Town 40. Range 10.

All thal part of government lot sec. %, Up.
40. R. 10, east of the north and south quar-
ter line described in vol. Is of deeds on page
II, except that part of said lot described in
vol K of deeds on mage 4q7.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-07

McIntyre's addition to Eagle River, being part
of sw Sc sec. %, TIP. 40, R. 10.
All that piece or parcel of land described in Vol.
"a of Deeds page 457 Villas County Records,
being all of lot II, block s. except south 210
feet thereof, and entire lot r. block 5.
All that piece or parcel of land described in Vol
"a on page 257, Villas County Records, being
known as lots and s, block ).
c. L. Perrys first addition to the village of
Eagle River, being part of govt lot 4, sec. 2S,
I'm 40 r 10
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10
Hot Days Beneficial.

II Is strange we never stop TO re-
allie that the hot days are good for
us. They are tho. Just as they are
good for crops. Nature sends the hot
days to give us a good sweating -
II the use of the vulgar word Is per-
missable for in this way II eliminates
some OF the poisons from our sys-
tens. II we would get out of doors.
instead of sitting in the shady hooks,
and take two or three hours in tho
open air with the boiling sun" boi.-
ing us right we would feel lots bet
ter. and be lots better.
This Is a correct theory, and Is
the theory that prompted the inven-
ton Of the hot-air treatments / am
giving with such success in my prac-
tlce. When used in connection with
Osteopathy It is a specific for the
ailments that give us Paducahans
the most trouble. malaria. chills and
fever and biliousness. and | can in
just a few minutes show anyone sur
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10

popular vote at general election,
even though he may belong To the
party actually in the minority in the
legislature. In Illinois the primary
system extends to senatorial nomina-
tons. and Wisconsin has popular
lied, or is on the point of popularlz-
ing. senatorial elections. In states
like Minnesota and Pennsylvania the
delegate convention and legislative
caucus have not been entirely dis
carded, but the drift is plainly In
that direction. More power is being
asked for the individual voter at the
cost of a diminished role for the
political manager and manipulation.
We do not accept the theory that
good government can be obtained by
the mere substitution OF one piece OF
political machinery for another. II
the voters want pnrer politics and
better administration they can gel
them under the delegate convention
plan as well as through the agency
Of the popular primary. Yet there
is a simplicity and finality about the
method OF direct nomination which
must be conceded. The state of
Iowa is just now in the throes of a
bitter contest between two republi-
can factions. Delegates have been
chosen to a state convention. which
meets today, and though the fight
has ragged for months no one can say
definitely which faction has won.
The seats of several hundred dele
gates are contested. and neither side
will admit that the other has a ma
jorlty OF the Republican voters be-
hind 1t. There are no positive and
convincing data on which TO base an
opinion, and no means exist for de
termining the lawful will OF the ma
jority. A state primary. conducted
under all the safeguards of a regular
election, would at least have shown
how the Republican voters we're d.
vided and would have established by
prima facie evidence which faction
was in the majority and which in
the minority. But the windings and
intricacies of the delegate conven-
ton system have made II possible to
force a deadlock. in which personal
ambitions and enmities will play a
larger part than true regard for
party union and party welfare.
Situations like that in Iowa have
had much TO do with spreading the
popularity of the direct primary
method.--New York Tribune.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10

the population has grown since 1896
but 20 per cent, imports have grown
81 per cent and exports 100 per cent.
The classes of imports which show the
greatest gains are manufactures and
manufacturers materials. Manufact-
ures imported show an increase of AZ
per cent, and manufacturers mater
falls imported show an increase Of 80
per cent. On the export side agricult-
ural products and manufactures show
the largest gains. Agricultural pro-
ducts exported show an increase dur
ing the decade of 20 per cent, and
manufactures an increase Of iGS per
cent.
This increase has occurred in the
trade with all Of the grand divisions
of the world. but is especially marked
in the trade with Asia and Oceania.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10

the multiplicity OF candidates will not
result in hopelessly weakening the
strength of this county in the race. II
would be much to the advantage of
Paducah to have a representative in
congress. These congressman gener-
ally look after the interests Of the con-
stituency that means most to them be-
fore the primary. and as political
strength as well as charity begins at
home. Paducah might be accorded
some needed attentions in the way of
public building with a Paducah man
In Washington.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10
TEN YEARS WITH RAILROADS..

In considering changed conditions"
Mr.. Bryan must face figures of char
acter more astounding than those re-
lating to gold production.
Let him turn for instance to the
earnings of the Pennsylvania railroad.
In 1896 the Pennsylvania railroad
earnings-east of Pittsburg and Erie
for six months. ending June 80.
were $50, 5O5,275.
For the same period in the same
territory the earnings in 1906 were
$40, 236.676.
In June, 1896 the earnings of the
Pennsylvania in the described terri
tory were IS, 3O5,5ss. In June of this
memorable year of 1906 they were
s12, ago. $50.
These figures suffice for the VIII Die
country. They present in a compre-
hensive form the vast strides the coun-
try has made. and they prove the won'
derful activity Of the American people
at this time.
Nothing measures like railroad earn
ings the industrious employment of the
American people. Certainly the rec
ord OF the past ten years surpassed
anything Mr.. Bryan promised US from
free silver in 1s96.-Louisville Post.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10
Peek.a.Boo Bug is Getting Busy
With Social Affairs in the East

Ansonia. Conn. August To- The
"peek-a-boo bug" has made It's APP
pearance in this city and neighbor-
hood This does not mean that the
fashion of wearing peek-a-boo waists
has Just reached here; that came the
first time the mercury climbed high
the thermometrical ladder. The
"peek-a-boo bug" Is an insect. not
fad. The young women OF Ansonia
have given the bug its name because
1t delights TO feed on the many GASES
of pink flesh that dot the deserts of
peek-a- boo waists and open-work
stockings. The bug Is as voraeious as
ill-mannered. II has already inter
rupted three proposals Of marriage.
Just when the lovely young woman
was about to murmur yes" she
shrleked "Ouch!" and tried to grab
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10

Ollie James explodes great deal OF
rumor in his Louisville interview. He
said he has not been approached by
emissaries of the state administration
Much OF the talk about his candidacy
has come from sources that lend TO II
color of suspicion of desire to get him
out of the way in the First district.
Astute politicians have repeatedly
pointed out the facts that Ollie James
would consult his personal and polti-
cal friends in the First district before
announcing his candidacy for COVER
nor, and that none of these has yet
spoken his name in connection with
the race. But, just the same, "Our
Ollie" looks like man riding dark
horse.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10
NOTICE.

List Of new subscribers added by the
East Tennessee Telephone Com
pany Today:
s97-a-McKlnney Veneer and Pack
age Co, Third and Elizabeth.
l5O9-t--Nelson, Robert, res, Hin
klevIlle road
Smith. Mrs. VIII. res. il16
Jones.
5O9-5-Ware, s. NJ. res, Hlnkle-
vile road.
50s-S-williams r. E. res, Hin
kleville road.
5s7-2-Bidwell. o., res, Hinkle-
vile road.
Like other commodities telephone
service should be paid for according
to its worth and value.
We have in the city over 5000
subscribers or five times as many as
the Independent company; outside
the city and within the county we
have GO times as many subscribers as
the Independent company. Yet we
will place a telephone in your resi-
dence at the same rate the independ-
ent company. is supposed to charge,
and provide in addition, long dist
ance facilities which will enable you
to reach fifty million people from
your home
Call 800 for further information.
EAST TENNESSEE. TELEPHONE
COMPANY.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10

On Wednesday the Peters Shoe COM
travelling statesmen with an automobile
trip around the city. visiting the manu-
featuring. wholesale and retail dis
tricts, the residence section and the
parks. The object of all this expense
and trouble was TO give the travelling
statesmen a good opinion and general
knowledge Of st. Louis. The officers
OF the company realized that their
statesmen, representing a st. Louis
house, will talk more or less about the
city. They wished the men to know
something about the city and form a
good impression of il, so that on their
trips they will spread the gospel Of
st. Louis progress over the land. II
the good word of one or a score Of
travelling men is worth that expense
and trouble to a city the size of St.
Louis, what would It be worth to Pa
ducah in her efforts to build up popu-
latlon of 10000? II is the spiri OF
men like the officers of the Peters
Shoe company, that has made st.
Louis the city she is, and will gain for
her a million inhabitants In few
years. The Commercial club OF Padu-
cab in the exercise of its prope func-
tions constantly Is evolving new
schemes by which merchants can ad-
vertise the city without trouble or ex-
pense. Let the business man give
heed to the incident of the Peters Shoe
company and do something for Padu-
cab. 1t will come back to him multi
piled like bread upon the waters. II
will make OF him an up-to-date mer-
chant and Of Paducah an up-to-date
city.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10

her shOulder-blade or her ankle-bone.
Physicians have treated many
young women whom the peek-a-boo
bug has bitten. All the doctors can
do is to prescribe soothing lotions.
and ofteDest they have prescribed in
the dark, so to speak The doctors
have not been able to classify the
peek-a-boo bug" yet they give 1t
scientific name. Said a prominent
physician this morning: IL have seen
many bites by this new bug: many
other bites ! have not seen. but pre-
scribed for. The insect looks like an
ordinary house fly. but Isn't. The vi
rus II deposits is very poisonous The
swelling that follows IT'S bite Is great
and does not yield TO treatment
quickly. The flesh around the bite
becomes hard and the skin leathery
but painful"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10

Texas is the latest state to .aban-
don the indirect for the direct meth
cd of choosing United States sena-
tors. The primary election law
passed by the legislature in 1905
had its first trial on Saturday. and
besides naming candidates for state
Offices the Democratic voters of
Texas practically instructed the next
legislature to re-elect Senator Jo-
seph w. Bailey. The new law pro-
vides that only the majority party
shall make popular nominations, the
minority parties being left free to
follow the delegate convention
method. But Texas is so overwhelm-
ingly Democratic that the exception
in favor of the minority organiza-
lions is unimportant. II can be
taken for granted that the next leg
islature will be Democratic. and the
Democratic majority in the two
branches will be bound to ratify a
choice for senator made at the polls.
Texas thus joins the group of states
in which the constitutional power OF
legislatures to choose senator's Is
being nullifed as effectively as the
constitutional power of the electoral
college to choose a president and
vice-president is now nullifed the
country over.
This notification has been pretty
generally effected through the south.
where conditions prompted the
spread of the primary system as a
useful device for settling all politi-
cal questions within the white DEM
oeratic household. Senators are now
named by the voters in Virginia,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama. Mississippi. Louisiana.
Texas. Arkansas, Tennessee and
Kentucky. In Maryland there is IA
vigorous agitation afoot for the
adoption of the direct method, ami
The next legislature is likely to sane
ton the experiment. But outside
he south the idea is also spreading
Oregon has gone so far as to instruct
he legislature to choose the sena-
orial candidate having the larger
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10

A half foot fall was registered by
the guage at the foot Of Broadway this
morning for the last "a hours. II
showed a stage Of SIS. Threatening
weather. Business at the wharf good.
The Peters Lee was let on the ways
at Mound City yesterday and left for
Memphis.
The Dick Fowler left on time this
morning for Cairo and way points,
with fair trip.
The City of Saltillo passed up from
st. Louis this morning at G O'Clock on
the up trip to the Tennessee river.
The John 5. Hopkins was hours
late arriving yesterday. The Joe
Fowler was the Evansville packet to-
day.
The Kentucky arrived early this
morning with big freight business OF
tobacco, lumber and ESQ sacks OF pea
nuts.
simon C'albert. acolored fireman on
Ohio river boats. has Uncovered a pro
cess BY which boilers can be cleaned
without going inside OF them. He has
applied for a patent for the same
Courier-Journal.
The Bob Dudley Is so high out OF
the water since the hull was repaired
that the wheel barry dips the water
Removing the wasertsoaked rotting
timber and placing the new timber on
the hull made the difference in draft
Joe st. John received orders to re-
port TO Nashville yesterday TO take IN
his duties as boiler inspector for the
government. He and Charles 7. Green
wood. of Greenville. Miss secured the
positions vacated by J. J Dunn and
w. J. Macdonald, over a large com
petitive field. The position is a lie
one on good behavior and pays sal-
airy OF s125 a month.
The Natchez was let down to the
water last night. II Is thought that
the stage of the river may be sum
GENTLY high to enable the Natchez TO
finish repairs here. One new smoke
stack is I'D and the other will go up
today. Fowler-Wolfe are furnishing
the smoke stacks, which rise % feet
from the water line and weigh four
tons. II the river was much higher
than at present the Natchez could not
get under the Cairo bridge. Should
the river get too low the Natchez viii
complete repairs at some Mississippi
river point. probably Cairo.
Official Forecasts.
The Ohio from Evansville to Cairo
will remain practically stationary dur
ing the next "a to Sc hours.
The Tennessee from Florence to be-
low Jacksonville will continue falling
during the next "a hours.
The Mississippi from below st
Louis 10 slightly above Cairo will fall
during the next SO hours.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10
cRoouEr AND QUARREL

Golfers for August brings forth
some thoughtful reflections on the
merits and influence of the game OF
croquet. II says:
A serious attack upon our praise
of croquet and its revival comes from
the town OF Akron, o. Two gross de-
fects concludes the critic, mar the
game. "In my long and varied ex-
perience," says he, 81 have found
no game equal to croquet in breed
ing petty luminosity. and even ha-
tired. One opponent Is privileged to
interfere with the well-laid plans of
another when simple courtesy would
allow the ball to lie in its favorable
position. Then there are no settled
rules. and therefore much unneces-
sary hard feeling In pushing this
game TO the front, therefore, you
have assumed a tremendous re-
sponsibility, and to my mind the only
way Is for you to promulgate an au-
thoritative and elaborate set OF rules
and preach whatever Joy may exist
in the theory OF retaliation" The
responsibility. were It needed, would
be jauntily assumed. but the rules
have in recent years become more
distinctly established, and tourna-
ments are not only frequent occur
rences in Great Britain, but draw
large crowds. As to the other point.
the person whose moral balance Is
permanently and hopelessly upset by
croquet would be unlikely to become
under any circumstances much OF
shining beacon for the population. In
the young this game starts the tenn
per but. on the whole, like life itself.
exercises the character without over
straining 1t. and this world is
place not OF rest but of discipline"
Disraeli said of Wellington that IL
was his sublime self-control alone
that regulated his lofty fate. Well
ington received his discipline amid
the roar and smoke of war. but may
not others becomeWellington by the
assiduous cultivation of croquet?
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10

fering Of these ailments why they
yield so readily to the treatment.
can refer you to people you know
who will attest to my statements.
II you feel drowsy. and tired:
feel like you had taut band around
your head which was being drawn
closer all the time; II you are suffer-
ing OF Indigestion or any form.
course Of 0steopathic and dry hot
air treatments will bring a quick
cure. and do so without the aid of.
anything but aids TO Nature.
My Office hours are from 3 to 12
and from 2 to 5. DR.. G. b. Froage,
SIS Broadway. Phone 1907.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-10
GROWTH OF EXPORTS.

The foreign commerce of the United
States has grown much more rapidly
during the last decade than its popula-
ton. Completed figures of the fiscal
year 1906, just presented by the bu-
reau of statistics OF the department OF
commerce and labor, show that while