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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-24

There promises to be the hottest kind
Of a fight in Congress over the ques-
ton Of the type Of canal to be con-
Itructed across the isthmus of Pana-
ma. Whatever may be the recommen-
iation Of the President. based upon
views expressed by the board of con-
Iulting engineers and the isthmian ca
1al commission. advocates of a sea
level type and lock type will engage
In a battle royal, which is calculated
70 please only those interests charged
by Secretary Taft and Chairman
shonts with working to prevent the
building of the waterway.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-24

ParODize those who advertise.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-24

A historian has been appointed for
the Panama Canal. He will hence
forth keep track of every event in
connection with that world famous
project How glad the chroniclers Of
the past would have been to get on
the scenes destined to command the
worlds attention just before the ex-
element began. Many photographs
have accidentally been taken at criti-
cal moments. A care-free tourist had
his camera pointed at the Campanlle
in Venice just as it fell.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
FRIDAY, NOV. %.

Pursuant to adjournment the Board
was called to order at o'clock in the
forenoon. Full Board present.
Journal read and approved.
Chinook moved to suspend the
rules and that the report of the Equal
1zatlon committee be taken up. Mo-
ton prevailed
Sup Chinook moved that the re-
port of the Equalization committee,
as presented yesterday be accepted
and adopted
Sup. Fitzgerald moved this amend
ment: That the report be referred
back to the committee and that the
chairman appoint two additional
members to act with said committee.
Amendment lost by the following
votes: Ayes: Murphy, Fitzgerald,
Bliesner, Roatch, Scott, Brown, Gil
more, Huppert, Giles, Moody, Ben
son, Martin. (12 votes). Nays:
Stark. Werner, Chicquette, Guiser,
Corcoran, Finn, Bunce, Drake, Nc
Nassau. Mercord, Rice, Chinook,
TAFT, Bailey, IA votes).
The report of the Equalization COM
mittee was accepted and adopted by
calling for the ayes and nays as fol-
lows:
Ayes: Stark, Werner. Chicquette,
Guiser. Corcoran. Finn, Bunce. Hup-
pert, Drake. McNassar, Mercord,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13

Schedule bills No. S6-111-112-113
and 1T were on motion allowed by
the whole Board, after which the
above reports were accepted and
adopted.
This resolution was accepted and
adopted.
RESOLUTION.
Providing for the more perfect render
ing of accounts for expenses incurred by
the sheriff in insane cases.
Whereas it is provided by section 602
of the Wisconsin Statutes that the sheriff
shall be allowed five dollars per day for
pital together with railroad fare and
other actual expenses and the actual
expenses for support and transportation
of such person and three dollars per
day, railroad fare and necessary expenses
of such assistants as may be ordered by
such judge, vouchers to be rendered for
expenses in all cases and whereas it
seems to have been the custom for some
County Board without complete vouchers
or anything to show an appointment of
assistants by such judge.
Resolved that the sheriff is hereby re-
quested from and after this time in rem
dering his account to the County Board
to present proper vouchers as required by
such statute together with a copy of the
order of the County Judge providing for
taking assistants with him and that the
Auditing Committee of the County Board
shall refuse to audit any account of the
sheriff not accompanied with vouchers as
required by such section. And that the
County Judge is hereby required to fur
nish said sheriff with a copy of his or
der directing him to provide assistants,
without extra charge.
DAVID SCOTT
J. A. MARTIN.
A. F. BLIESNER,
Committee
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13

Total ,...........................$ 6OS5. 90
90 county tax Qncluding school SUI
perintendents salary sixteen thousand
(D For officers salaries. six thousand
dollars Csc, 100000.
90 For soldiers relief fund. five hun
bred dollars ($50000.
ID For interest on Court House Bonds
dred dollars ($1 100000.
(9 For interest on Court House Bonds
and partial payment on the principal
thereof, as heretofore provided and levied
by resolution of November %, 1904, eight
thousand four hundred forty dollars ($S-
1000
Total amount of tax levied, ffty-seven
thousand eight hundred sixty-three and
50-1OO dollars (S57, S6S.5OD.
Sups Brown and Fitzgerald were
designated and appointed TO act as
commissioners to cooperate with the
town board Of town of Rock Elm in
building bridge.
Sups. Gilmore and Murphy were
designated and appointed to act as
commissioners to cooperate with
town board Of Hartland i'll building
bridge
On motion Board adjourned until
1870 o'clock this afternoon.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
Board convened again at 1870
O'Clock. All members answered to
roll call.
The minutes Of this forenoon ses-
sion read and approved.
Sup. Moody presented the following
resolution relating to duties and pow
ers of County Agent.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, that the County Agent shall
| have general charge of the Court House,
sheriffs residence, and the grounds
around the same; shall employ a janitor,
to care for the buildings and grounds,
purchase such supplies for the county
officers and other purposes as may be
required for immediate use, and in pay
ment of the same he is hereby author
| lied to issue orders on the County Treas
| urer as such County Agent. He shall
| receive as a compensation for such SER
| vices, a salary of one hundred dollars
! per annum
Sup Fitzgerald reported that the
committee appointed had destroyed
by burning all court certificates, poor
orders, county orders, county agents
orders, soldiers relief orders, bounty
warrants, interest coupons, court
! house bonds and certificates of super
visor of assessment, which had been
referred to such committee with order
of the Board to destroy
Report was on motion accepted.
The Board expressed its thanks to
the chairman by rising vote.
On motion of Sup. Chinook the
| Board adjourned. sine die.
JNO. P. OLSON,
Chairman.
o. J. HOHLE,
County Clerk.
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
County of Pierce.
| hereby certify that the foregoing
is correct copy of the proceedings
of the County Board of Supervisors
Of said county at their annual session
for the year 1906
That I have compared the same
with the original Of record in my Of
flee, that it is true transcript there
from and of the whole thereof
Dated, Ellsworth, Wis, this 23rd
day of November. A. D. 1906.
Q. ]. HOHLE.
County Clerk,
Pierce Co, Wis
PAY ROLL OF MEMBERS OF COUNTY
BOARD NOVEMBER SESSION, 1906
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13

Board adjourned until the usual
hour tomorrow morning.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
SCHEDULE OF BILLS, CERTIFIED BY
JUDGE A. p. WELD.

To the Honorable Board Of Supervisors
of Pierce County, Wisconsin,
Your Auditing Committee beg leave to
report and submit the following Schedule
of Accounts against the County, which we
have audited. We recommend that the
Claims therein mentioned, and set forth
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13

Resolution for tax levy was read
and the same was accepted and adopt
ed by roll call All members voted
aye.
RESOLUTION FOR TAX LEVY, 1906
Resolved, by the Board of Supervisors
and is hereby levied upon the taxable
property in said Pierce County for the
year 1906:
"a A state school tax and tax for the
support of the insane amounting to nine
thousand seven hundred thirty-seven dol
lars and fifty-eight cents ($9,737.58)
(2) A county school tax amounting to
sixteen thousand eighty-fve dollars and
ninety-two cents ($16, O85 49, to be appor-
toned among the several towns, villages
and cities as follows:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13

be allowed as indicated therein, and as
marked allowed by us in the below Sched-
ule, which is a part of this report.
DAVID SCOTT,
J. A. MARTIN,
A. +. BLIESNER,
Auditing Committee.
Fees to officers, physicians, witnesses
and others certified by county judge.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13

On motion of Sup. Moody the
Board proceeded to the election Of
County Agent; Guiser and Corcoran
were appointed tellers.
L. G. Spinney was elected County
Agent for the term of two years, COM
mencing January LIST, 1907.
Sup. Martin moved that the County
Agent be instructed to purchase 500
of each of the justice blanks issued by
Eau Claire Book and Stationery Co..
and send said blanks to the several
Justices of the Peace in the county.
Motion prevailed.
Resolution offered by Sup Scott ac-
cepted and adopted.
RESOLUTION.
Appropriating aid for the partial sup
port of certain poor persons now dwelling
in the town of Rock Elm whose legal
settlement is unknown.
whereas, two poor persons named ----
Metcalf and - Metcalf. his wife, are
now sojourning in the town of Rock Elm
and are unable to fully support them
selves and the said town has been COM
PEELED to extend aid to them from time
to time. and they being of a wandering
disposition have resided in several diff
ferent towns until their actual legal set
Element is unknown and this prevents a
commitment by the County Judge to the
poor house and until their legal settle
ment is ascertained the support of such
poor persons falls upon the County and
small amount OF aid IS at present
sufficient to provide for their wants.
Resolved, that the County Poor Agents
are authorized and directed to pay two
dollars per week or so much thereof as
they may deem necessary to provide food
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13

+. w. KENDALL,
County Treasurer.
Pierce Co., Wisconsin,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of November, 1906
o. J. HOHLE,
County Clerk.
REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23
Stenographer's Stunt.

The official stenographers of the
house have reported so far this ses-
sion about 2,775,000 -, rds, with the
session perhaps a r lie more than
half over. There is u busy, talking
time to come, however, and the full
bill will probably be about 6,O0O,00
words for the session. That is outside
of the committee hearings, which will
be more than half as much additional,
so that the house will have sent to the
printing Office as the talk that has
been made or to its members while at
work on the floor or in the committee
rooms approximately 10000 900 words.
The senate will easily double that, If
it does not exceed it, although the SEN
ate often sits only four days a week.
while the house is always busy at least
five days, and sometimes sits on Sat
urday. That will be a round total of
100000 words thus uttered at this
session.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23
FLOATING FACTS.

Bank of England notes cost a half
penny apiece to produce.
The Church OF England has an IN
come of G15,000,O00 year.
In the Indian ocean only $50 ont of
1890 islands are inhabited.
In March 1,646 Japanese left the
Hawaiian islands fer the Pacific coast.
A watch taken to the top of Mount
Blanc will gain SO seconds in "a hours.
A ray Of light could move eight
times around the globe between tho
tick of watch.
Rain is never known to fall in the
region between the first and second
cataracts of the Nile.
Never in the history Of parliament
have the full numDsr of members been
present at one sitting.
Wood intended to be made into
pianos requires 20 be kept 40 years to
be in perfect condition.
1t is estimated that $4,000, 600
worth of British treasure lies sunN
along the route from England to India
There are more accidental deaths
from drowning every year in mos.
countries than from any other cause
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23
Especial Correspondence

There are two aspects of the San
francisco earthquake disaster that ap-
peal strongly, hopefully, to the stu
dent of human affairs, who, like Ben
Adhem, loves his fellow men," These
are, first, the eagerness which the peo-
pie OF America-and a large part of
the rest OF the world-have shown to
be foremost in extending relief to the
people of their stricken sister commu-
nifty; second, the bravery and stout
heartedness of the San Franciscans
themselves, who sit not down to weep
amid the ruins of their city, but VOW
on the ashes of their vanished homes
that the city shall he rebuilt, and that
speedily, grander and more glorious
than before.
Fresno, it is claimed-and the clain
seems to be a good one-was the first
outside town to get relief actually
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23
Relief Committees Homeless by Railroad at San lose

fug1tlves from the latter place, receiy-
ing them in concentration camps, feed
ing them through the efforts of Q re-
llef committee supported by contribu-
tons OF citizens, and dispatching them
70 other points as fast as individual
destinations could be decided upon.
Gilroy, Salinas, Santa Barbara, and a
score Of other towns on the way to Los
Angeles, fed the pilgrims, Chinese and
japanese, as we'll as Americans. Some.
is is suspected, Jared more sumptuous-
ly On their journey than they had
been accustomed TO Go at home. Nc
doubt there were some with pIenty of
funds who accepted the hospitality CT
their fellow countrymen, who we're
ever anxious to feed all newcomers. but
the spirit Of the relief committees was
that they had rather feed MANY i'm
posters than suffer one in need to go
hungry. All the length and breadth
OF the state Of California and across
many neighboring states, to Portland.
to the Canada line and beyond.
across Arizona, New Mexico, Utah.
Kansas, Missouri, at ST. Louis. Chr
cago and all east and north and south
the good people Of the nation gathered:
TO help their neighbors who fed from
tie scene CT the worlds greatest mod
eTn catastrophe. Those who preach The
oeca6ence OF American character has.
ing their honliiies on enervating infiu-
ences of modern life, viii find little
satisfaction in perUsing the history of
the San Francisco earthquake.
Uncaunted by Disaster.
No cry of "Delenda est Carthage!
went Up from the stricken city. In
stead, the words I'VE will rebuild San
Francisco and make it better than be-
FORE were on the lips of all.
This will prove a fortunate thing
for the city, exclaimed a merchant
whose sole assets were pile of block
ened bricks and an account in a hank
mat had gone up N smoke. The Chi
cago architect, Durham, has drawn
up plan for the beautifying of San
FRANCISCO, which scue said could not
De carried out in centuries because CT
the changes entaliing the demolition
o. buildings that At would be necessary
% make. Now the city is wiped cut
c,ean and we can build it I'd auy way
ehst we please Moreover, the earth
quake Old only minor damage. Nh..
wiped out San Francisco was a s-e
such as might occur in any CITY"
mus, combating the idea that SaE
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23
y , = . No nech :: oalss. A!nm.
Calumet
Baking
Powder
LITERARY LITTER.
MOT ~ zHK BAKING POWDER ZRUsz-
u makee pure food.

Percival Gibbon, the well-known
author. began life as a cabin boy,
and is young yet. with chance CT
adding M. P. to his name.
Andrew Lang once wrote to Israel
Zangwill to ask him to take part in
an authors reading for the benefit OF
q charity and received in reply the
following laconic message: eff Lang
will. Zangwill."
One hundred pounds was given in
London for a first edition of Daniel
Oefoe's THE Life and Surprising Ad-
ventures of Robinson Crusoe," 1919,
together with THE Farther Adyen-
lures" issued in the same year.
Thomas Hardy, the novelist, was q
little boy when his mother gave him
copy of Dryden's Virgil" She took
great pains with his education, and
had him taught Latin at II, and at
the age of 10 he received his first
lesson in French from a governess.
Bliss Perry, editor of the Atlantic
monthly, has been appointed to
professorship in English literature in
Harvard college, a chair which has
remained vacant since 1866, and
which before that time was occupied
by George Ticknor, Henry Wads.
worth Longfellow and James Russell
Lowell.
Lafcadio Hearn is residing in New
Orleans and doing some work. He
writes: Il am living in a ruined
creole house; damp brick walls green
with age, zigzag cracks running down
the facade, a great yard with torchon
plants and cacti in it; quixotic
horse, four cats, two rabbits, three
dogs, five geese and a seraglio Of
hens-all living together in har.
mony."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23
NATIONS SYMPATHY AND AID CHEERED
HEARTS OF STRICKEN SAN FRANCIS CANS
No Doubt That the City viii Be Rebuilt
Than Before the Observation-Disclosures
n

Francisco is dangerous place be-
cause of earthquakes, the sturdy citi-
zens, On the second morning after the
blow fell, began to make plans to re-
build their city. The fires along Mar
ket street had not ceased to- shoulder
when there was a turn in the tide of
traflc that threaded among the ruins
that lay between the ferry house and
the western addition. By Saturday
morning people were coming back. By
Monday they were coming back in
crowds, bringing back the household
goods that they had been fortunate
enough to save. Most of those Who
returned were able-bodied men. All
realized that so far as circumstances
permitted, women and children would
do we'll to leave San Francisco for
awhile, although there were many
women who declared that what was
good enough for their fathers, broth
ers, sweethearts OR husbands would
DO nicely for them. The brave wom-
en- of California;! How they are
Tightening the labors of those who
seek to rear up another city by the
Golden Gate! Some who had reached
places of safety refused to stay out,
but went back to rejoin their loved
ones, despite fearful protests. Is it
worth While to ask if a people DOS
sessed of such spirit will rebuild a
grander city than they have lost?
Whole Country Interested.
There is a material problem which
bears upon the rebuilding. 1t is a
question of enlightened self-iuterest
that affects the entire country. II
San Francisco had persisted from the
earth, never to be rebuilt, scores of
business houses and banks throughout
the United States would be dragged
down in the general wreck They cam
not afford to go, or the communities
in which they are situated to have
them go. Therefore, if for no other
reason, the business community of the
country will see that great business
center is reestablished where San
Francisco stood. The railroads that
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23
SENATOR WAS "KlDDED."
Reporters Abbreviation Carried In
to Print Resulted in Ludicrous
Passages.

The telegraph operators were spend
ing their day off in a brisk walk
through the faded autumnal country.
You know our habit of abbreviat-
ing or substituting short words for
long ones?" said the Washington oper-
ator. We'll, this habit once did me
harm.
Senator Grande had made speech
about education, and in wiring The
speech out I substituted the short
word kids for the long word chill
dren,' thinking that of course the OPP
orator or editors at the other end
would have sense enough, in taking
down the message, to substitute the
long word for the short one. But they
didn't, and Senator Grande's really
eloquent and stately speech appeared
in the next days newspaper in this
fashion:
MY friends, you will remember
Wordsworth's profound saying, 1.-The
kid is father to the man" l need not
dwell on the vital Importance to the
community of imparting sound moral
and secular education to the kids in
their impressionable years. The kids
of this generation will be the fathers
and mothers of the next. One said,
Suffer little kids to come unto me-
and we should never forget that saying
In behalf of all kids the world over 4"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23
HEAD HUNTERS OF FoRMosA
Aiks me Dyaks Of Borneo, They Have
al Unpleasant Mania for
Decapitation.

Inc mountainous interior of For
mosa is inhabited by a race of blood
thirsty savages, whose chief deligh,
Is to sally forth en- head hunting raids
Few strangers (the exceptions being
some intrepid japanese explorers
nave ever penetrated far into the wild
mountain country which is the home
of these savages.
They appear to be akin to the Dyaks
OF Borneo, says Macmillan's. but no
definite study of their language or
habits has yet been made, though In
teresting details will be found in
Consul Davidson's voluminous book
On Formosa. For hundreds of wears
the tribes, eight in number, have
withstcod their enemies, who have
never been able to penetrate to their
Businesses. 1t remains to be seen
what success the more systematic JAP
anese will achieve
1t seems almost incredible that the
station of a military force should not
be safe from the raids of these head
hunters, hut it was the case a few
years ago. At that time one of the
tribes crept in the night upon a post
CT the japanese and made off with a
score Of heads.
Their more usual method is to stalk
the Chinese of either sex when they
are engaged il tea picking The saw
age oreeps up unobserved to MS vic
tin, transfixes him with his spear, Sc
cures his head and is lost in q moment
n the neighboring jungle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23

OF San Francisco, which, with one ex-
ception, arose phoenix-like from their
ashes, paid particularly hearty trib-
ute to the spirit shown by Puritan
Boston, where large sum was raised
in "a hours.
These towns, however, only Illus
trate the attitude and actions of the
whole country.
The railroads leading out of San
Francisco, although themselves great
sufferers, practically placed their lines
at the disposal of the great throng of
homeless, people to enable them to find
other homes, furnishing them with
free transportation, in many cases to
the Atlantic coast. The subsistence
of these homeless ones was arranged
for by local relief committees all along
the lines of travel San Jose, a town
south of San Francisco, which prob
ably suffered as much damage as the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23
How to Use Brains.

A head man in a mandatory was
watching a drayman Juggling at Il
heavy case one day. The drayman's
face was red, and the muscles of his
neck were bullying. The overseer,
says writer in the Baltimore Sun,
thought it was the right moment to
offer practical assistance.
wait minute there" he said. Let
Ule show you how easy it is when you
use little brain with your muscle
And he grabbed hook, struck it Into
the case, gave yank, and went
sFrawling into the gutter under the
dray. He got up, looked at the hook,
and said "Confound it, the handle
comes off,"
"Yes, SIR said the drayman, re-
sEectfully. my brain told me that,
ano didn't use it,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23

Horseshoes, such as We have. are
also rather modern. The Greeks and
Romans used to cover their horses
feet with fiber cloth in cod weather.
or when urging the horses through
muddy and miry places. Nero's
horses were shod without nails, but
with silver. His wife's were shod in
gold. The shoeing of horses by driv.
ing nails through their hoofs was in
troduced into England by William the
Conqueror. But even in the middle
centuries horses were shod only on
special occasions, which was done more
Cor style.