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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-17

w. FL. Smith, of Houghton, says
that there is good outlook for a
rush in business at his stone quar-
ries during the summer months and
that he will no doubt be able to keep
a large crew of men employed dur
ing the summer Just at present he
is getting out stone for aslarge church
that is being built at Hurley. He
has also large number of orders
ahead
The sale of tax certificates for the
taxes of 1905 was conducted by
County Treasurer Froseth, on Tues
day The bidders, were F. W. Fitz,
Drummond, f. V. Holston, A. Ell.
Wilkinson, Bayfield,, A. r. Mead,
Iron River. A. J. OLSON, Grand
view, j. H. Klovstad, Port Wing,
D, M. Maxcy, John Walsh, George
F. Morgan. T. A. Loveland, E. G.
Alvord of this city
Matt, J, Johnson, of ST. Paul,
owner and manufacturer of the cele-
brated 6000 rheumatism cure, and
an all around good fellow, was In the
city for a short time yesterday look
ing after the sale Of his medicine
and inciden tally visiting with friends
here. Mr.. Johnson says the sale Of
his medicine is steadily growing and
that they have a hard time to keep
up with the demard.
| With appropriate exercise, speach-
es, etc. will open the fourteenth an
ual meeting of the North Wisconsin
Teachers Association at Ashland,
tonight. Ar address of welcome
will be given by Mayor Williams,
which will be responded 10 in behalf
of the Association by Superintend-
dent Oscar of this city. Many prom
inent educators will be in attendance
and it is expected that it will be the
most important meeting in the his
tory of the organization.
Judge Parish has rendered de-
cision in the case of Hans Swauby
and others against the board OF
school commissioners. He has held
that the writ OF mandamus compel
ling the school commissioners to re-
turn the money collected for rental
of books cannot be granted. This
means that he has dec ided that the
school commissioners could adopt
any system they might see fit gov
erning the distribution of text
books.
VIM. III. Irish has been doing quite
a stroke of business clearing on his
farm and has kept a crew of men
busy for the past two or three weeks.
Mr., Irish has an eighty acre tract
along the Houghton road and be in
tends to have forty acres OF this I'M
der pillow this season. He expects
to have one of the finest farms in
Bayfield, county within the course of
two or three years and if hustling
Will do it he will certainly have the
| farm.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-17
Seeds at the 99c store.


Seeds at the 99c store.
Barn for rent. Inquire TINES
Office.
8room house, modern for sale.
Love-Land Company.
20 acres within 2 miles of city,
fenced and in grass for sale or rent.
D. M. NANCY.
The base ball team will go to
Hurley next Sunday.
Bring in your milk and cream to
the Washburn creamery.
A large number of fishermen were
again out on the stream last Sunday.
VIM. Hyland and Fred Cole, of
Ashland, visited in the city last
Sunday.
Miss Maud Ever of the class of
1906 visited at Ashland the first of
the week.
J. Coats has moved his family in
to the residence recently vacated by
S. A. Oscar
Free band concert in front CT
Sweets New Drug Store Thursday
noon April 18th.
The young daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Lee has been quite sick
during the week.
Mrs. Fred Hardness, OF ircn River
in visiting at tie home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. McMartin.
Jens Jorgeson, County Clerk of
Sawyer county was in city few
hours yesterday.
Paul Bye and family have moved
to Duluth where they will make
their home in future.
Get in line and bring in your milk
and cream to the creamery. 1t can
handle all that can be brought in.
When you want anything in the
line of JOB printing The Times can
supply your wants in frst-class
shape
DR.. Bush is having the house which
he purchased from Henry LaHaie
moved to his lots near the Chris tians
House.
will Hull returned home during
the week from Madison where be
has been working for the past few
months.
Adelard Durand wfo has been do
ing carpenter work at the elevator
ali winter has returned to his home
at Spooner.
Miss Morrow, one Ct the teachers
was on the sick list for a day or &
during the week and was unable t,
teach school.
The many friends of VIM. Olson
are glad to know that he is able tC
be out again after an illness of about
three weeks.
Robson & Wieman are giving the
interior of their barber shop new
coat of paint and otherwise fixing
up considerable.
r, Miss Tngholm, of Ashlond, has ac-
cepted the position of stenographer
and bo0k-keeper at tie B, Ungrod
hardware store.
Harry Pierce is here from Wilm
ington, Delaware, and has accepted
a position with the Atlantic Manu-
featuring company.
Monica Rockstead returned home
Tuesday evening from Minneapolis
where she has been attending bust
ness college for some time.
Louis Sowder who has been al
Eau Claire receiving medical treat
ment for some little time has return
ed home much improved IT, health.
The school term at Benoit has
closed and Miss Mae Smith who has
been teaching there during the yea
has returned to her home in this
city.
The warm evenings of the past few
days has brought the boating en-
thusiasts out and many are now en-
dulging in the sport of boating or
the bay.
NJ. S. Hull was up from Glenwooc
for few days during the week visit
ing with relatives and friends
Marion saws that he is doing well in
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-17

Land within walking distance of
the dynamite plant which you can
buy for what your rent and fuel cost
you. Loveland Company.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-17

A torpid, inactive liver can pro
Iduce more bodily ills than almos
anything else. 1t is good to clean
the system out occasionally. Stir
the liver up and get in shape gen
orally. The best results are derived
from the use OF DeWitt's Little
Early Risers. Reliable, effective,
pleasant pills with reputation.
Never grippe, Sold at Sweets West
End Pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus., 1906-03-30

every one Win adopt this plan. This
movement has been on foot for some
time. In a short time it is the purpose
of the society TO enlarge the number
of words which VIII be spelled the
way they are pronounced.
"For years my brother, who was
connected with college in Iowa, was
interested in this movement. He Wis
tied the Sandwich Islands, and my
niece was called on to write COM
position, the subject being the Sand
witch Islands, She came to me for
some information, and / referred her
to my brother He wrote her an inter
esting letter on the subject, using the
new method of spelling. This letter
gave much valuable information the
other scholars could not obtain and
was the means of my niece winning
the prize. For days she studied the
letter and spent much time in commit
ting it to memory. She was asked
why she did not read the letter or sub
NIT 1t in the competition. She replied
that she was ashamed to do so. as it
would show the other scholars what a
poor speller' her uncle was"
Rock Island Argus., 1906-03-30
Mar,x,eZs in Steamers

greyhound.
Each vessel will be equipped with
four turbine schews, two way aft and
two about forty or fifty feet forward.
SO mucn has been gwen up 1" at
veIopment Of speed that the Lusitan'A
and her sister will not have any great
er cargo carrying capacity than several
other smaller steamships of the day.
Both boats will be built with ca
pacity Of 20 knots an hOur-that Is,
about 81 statute miles. The Lucania
is capable of 22 knots, and i believe
that the Deutschland is knot fast
er. The Lusitania will have double
the number of boilers and furnaces
Of the Lucania. but because of the
simplicity of the turbine engines the
engine room force will not be appreci-
ably greater.
II believe that in smooth water these
turbines will be able to go % knots an
hour, or little more than 81 miles
The Lucania has made 23 knots In
smooth water. The new turbines VIII
eat up 1000 tons of coal I'm a day and
will carry $500 tons in their bunkers.
The Lusitania will have tonnage OF
33, 900 as against the 25,OO0 or the
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, the 10000
of the Deutschland and the 1850 OF
the Lucania. She will have displace-
ment of more than 10000.
"You may have some idea of the big
ness of these new boats when / say.
metaphorically speaking, that they
might swing the biggest battleship In
the world at their stern. The new
Cunard twins will carry 600 first class,
400 second class and about 1000 third
class passengers. Their interior fur
nishIngs and appointments will be the
finest of any ships In the world. All
of the woodwork will be of mahogany.
walnut and satin wood. There Will be
system of elevators carrying the pas
sengers up and down the greater part
of the ships depth of sixty feet. The
new turbines will have four tunnels"
Rock Island Argus., 1906-03-30

steamship that could run away
from Il subway express train and race
over the seas from New York to
Queenstown in three days and eighteen
hours, or there and back in a week!
Shipbuilders who predicted this a
decade ago We're scoffed at. but it will
be an accomplished fact when the Gu
nard lines monster vessels, the Lusi-
tania and Mauritania. begin their
ocean express traffic next winter, says
the New York Evening World.
The world sat up and marveled st
the performances of the Deutschland
and Lucania, but the new turbine
steamships of the Cunard line will be
able to pass them on the ocean almost
as IL they were anchored. Moreover.
they will be the longest boats in the
world by almost 100 feet. broader than
any of the German leviathans and at
the same time possessing the shapely
lines of the greyhounds like the Lu-
capia.
The LuSitania is now building on the
Clyde and the Mauritania on the Tyne.
The former will be launched In May
and her sister ship few months later.
Both will be equipped to carry traffic
before next Christmas. They are ex-
pected to develop a speed of thirty
one statute miles an hour, making it
possible to cover the distance of 2,SOO
miles from New York to Queenstown
in three days and eighteen hours.
The new turbine steamers are 40
feet long between perpendiculars. or 500
feet counting in the stern overhang.
The Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, now the
longest steamship in the world, is I0o
feet long. with a breadth of S0feet. The
Cunard twins have SO feet breadth. and
even then they will compare with the
German boat as u Sandy Hook flyer
might with a ferTyboat, so fine ana
clean are their lines.
Unlike the Carmania. the turbine of
the Cunard feet recently put in COM
mission, the Lusitania and her sister
are being built for speed. The younger
and smaller boat was an experiment in
steamship building, the first object be-
ing to make the vessel one of singular
comfort without seeking for any great
development of speed.
The Lusitania Will develop almost
four times the horsepower in her en-
gines that has been developed in the
Carmania. The latter's horsepower Is
81 900. The new turbines will have
four engines, each capable of develop
ing $4,000 horsepower, or I2000 horse
power in ALL The most powerful vessel
afioat today is the Deutschland. Her
horsepower is 31.500.
sour two new boats" said Captain
James Bernie Watt senior master. or
commodore, of the oupard feet, mark
as great a stride,lnxedp1pce over mod
ern steamships as bDqeA like our Lu-
cania and the Baltic OF the White Star
feet did over the Umbria type. They
will be monster vessels, but as slender
and racy In their lines as the Lucania.
They will be the true type Of ocean
Rock Island Argus., 1906-03-30
USER OF new SPELLING
Sinplihed System Adopted by
Justice David ]. Brewer.
FOLLOWED WHENEVER POSSIBLE

Associate Jurist of the Supreme
Court Has Agreed to Write His
Opinions According to Reform
Methods of OrthoSrnphy - Twelve
Words 10 Be Changed as IA Begin
ning-More to BE Added Soon.
81 have agreed to use the new sim
plifed method in spelling in writing
my opinions" said Associate Justice
David J. Brewer of the United States
supreme court in Washington, when
asked recently by the New York World
concerning his joining in the new
movement. For some time have fol
lowed the practice of shortening my
spelling of certain words, as 'aithc,
thru and program OF course l can
not control the actions of the supreme
court In the matter of spelling, but
have adopted the new method for my
own use.
1.-The spelling Of many educated men
is atrocious. They never will learn to
spell according to the rules of the Eng
lish language. But If the simplified
method is adopted believe it will help
them.
There is no reason why we should
not spell words the way they are pro-
nounced The adoption of this system
would save time and labor. and after
the prejudice against the reform has
disappeared some progress will be
made tn this direction.
"Of course the new system will seem
strange until the people become accus-
toned to it. SO did the old style of
spelling used by the people of u gener-
alton ago. 1t was customary to spell
the words labor and honor with the
letter u and the old fashioned 'labour
and honour seem as strange to us as
will though and although to the peo-
pie of a generation hence.
1.-The simplified spelling board has
organized a society for the purpose OF
bringing about a reform In spelling
The head Of this organization is Brand
er Matthews, and the other officers OF
the organization are leaders in educa
tional and other lines of work. 1 an
a member of this society. We have
agreed whenever possible to use the
new method of spelling. There are
twelve words which the members ol
the organization have agreed to spell
in the new way when they remember
to do so. The words are program,
.decalog,' prolog,' tho .altho, 'thoro,
.thorofare,' thru and four others which
1 cannot at this moment recall.
"These simple changes will not shocl
any one. and we will gradually be
come accustomed to using the words
in their new form, and in q few years
Rock Island Argus., 1906-03-30

F, 1t was found that some one had been
stealing chickens and killing sheep
| they aried In chorus: ut was the vel
| low dog. He did it,"
Then the dog had something to say
His remarks related particularly to
"curs." He also said something about
q "Pecksniff" 1t was probably the
greatest canine speech ever made. He
defended the memory of his master,
whom the "curs" had deserted and
driven to death. Among other things
the one of saffron hue said:
.'They may talk about the yellow
dog but the yellow dog Is q dog of
courage and of loyalty, but the ours
who stood around this funeral and the
ours who knew of these transactions
and shrunk into their shoes-they are
the curs-and that is the reason that
come to speak before you and to say
that the great interest of 100000, 900
of life insurance and S4OO, 100000 of
assets can never be safely intrusted to
the administration of lot of ours"
Started In Life as Obscure Lawyer.
Casting aside the kennel terminology,
famous yellow dog" fund of the New
York Life Is Judge" Andrew Hamil-
ton of Albany. Hamilton was born
about forty eight years ago and started
life as an obscure lawyer. Finally he
became assistant district attorney and
for a short time district attorney. He
was also a justice in civil court,
whence his title. But he really got his
start in life In the "Ten Ten" club,
which met In q back room over a
saloon. This meeting place had the
sanguine title of 1.-The jug Of Blood"
and the Ten Ten" club in time came
to be known as 1.-The Lucky Bunch" :"
The chief light of the bunch was Mil
lionaire Anthony n. Brady. He took
a liking to Hamilton, whom he gave
many tips on the stock market. Later
his son married Hamilton's daughter.
Brady introduced the Judge" to John
A. Mccall, and the insurance president
In time also came TO have q liking for
Andy Hamilton. AS a result the i'm
mense legislative interests of the New
York Life We're placed in Hamilton's g
hands. and 1t Is limited that he also
looked after the interests of the other
big insurance companies.
When Charles E. Hughes and the
Armstrong committee were stirring up
the insurance animals they evinced a
strong desire to examine the yellow
dog" but Hamilton was IN Paris In
the hands of several nerve specialists
Rock Island Argus., 1906-03-30
PIXIES PEAK JUBILEE PLANS
Hundredth Anniversary Celebration
to He Military and Civic.

Colorado Springs, Colo, is making
elaborate plans to celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of the discovery
of Pixies peak, says special dispatch
to the Chicago Post The government
will send 10000 regular troops to take
part in the programme In addition to
representatives of the various tribes
of Indians with whom Pike came into
contact on his toilsome march of dis
covery. Congress probably will author
ize the issue of 100000 souvenir medal
lions in commemoratiOn of the event
The programme will last one week.
beginning Sept "a. The celebration
will be military and civic, to include a
sham battle and maneuvers by the
troops and the unveiling of a huge
granite monument to Pike. Besides
the troops, the Indians, the national
guard, the cadets and the veterans,
cowboys, pioneers. patriotic societies,
fraternal societies, educational institu-
tions, historical societies, school chill
dren and citizens generally will take
part.
There will be parades. tournaments
of polo and golf. automobile endurance
runs, drills, war dances by Indians,
cowboy sports and exercises of all
kinds typical of the wild west"
Rock Island Argus., 1906-03-30
IMPRESSIONS OF JUDGE" ANDREW HAM1LTON

legged TO have been chiefly responsible
for the Fowler report and the deser-
ton of Mccall. President Cleveland
once nominated Mr.. Hornblower for
Justice of the United States supreme
court. bat the senate rejected him. The
senate does some good things.
The other chapters OF the Hamilton
book are coming out in small INSTALL
ments. First there was the publication
of the facsimile of an alleged receipt
for $40 ,OGO from Cornelius y. Bliss.
Another assertion made by the
"iudge'' is that he remained in Europe
during the Hughes investigation be-
cause requested so to do by the board
of trustees of the New York Life. Evi-
dently somebody is doing some very
adult lying in these matters. There is
so much prevarication that 10 one man
could be responsible for all of it. An
anias seems in 4 fair way of losing his
laurel wreath.
A House of Gloom.
Hamilton had quite a little to do
with the famous House of Mirth" at
Albany. He seems liable to have quite
as much to do with creating a house
of gloom for high finance circles in
New York.
Despite all the scandal, the Judge"
maintains much of his old popularity
about his home. He was recently re-
elected president of the Albany club
by practically a unanimous vote.
The whole insurance fight is center
ing more and more on the bill intro
duced by the Armstrong committee to
legislate out of office all of the old trus-
tees of the implicated companies.
Hamilton's efforts are directed against
the board of the New York Life. One
of the most sensational struggles in
the history of that company has re-
Gently been waged in an effort to Sc
cure proxies by the present officials in
order to DerDetuate their regime. The
election is scheduled to occur April IL.
The Armstrong bill provides that they
shall be removed from Office Nov. 10
next. Thomas w. Lawson charges that
in order to secure proxies the manage
ment has written insurance for moth
ing, only requiring that the policy
holder so created surrender his proxy
to be used by these trustees that Ham
ilton has denounced as "curs and
traitors" To substantiate his claim
Lawson publishes statements and con-
tracts that have come into his posses
sion. Samuel Untermyer, counsel of
the policy holders organized by Law
son, has written to President Alexan-
der E. Orr that he and his trustees Will
Rock Island Argus., 1906-03-30

OF LIS selections in the Congressional
Record or simply to let the whistle"
go without notice says a Washington
correspondent of the st. Louis Repub-
lie. No one in Washington knew until
Of remarkable ability. The discovery
came of q sudden and Sha tered all
precedents as to decorum in the house.
The house was in wrangle over the
bill of Representative Prince of Illi-
nois abolishing the grade of lieutenant
general in the army and striking at
Major Generals COrbin and Macarthur,
who were next in line for the step. A
quorum was not present, but was de-
manded. Several roll calls followed,
and the sergeant at arms was required
to hustle out, arrest members and
! bring them in. All this involved long
delays that kept the other members
idle At the moment of greatest dull
! ness. when every one was oppresSively
| bored. there sounded suddenly the
strain Of 'There'll Be Hot Time In
the Old Town Tonight"
Startled members could not at first
locate the origin of the birdlike ca
dences Fulkerson was sitting care
lessly i'm his seat, his head bowed
down. Finally he was discovered, and
In the laugh that followed he stopped.
Business was forgotten, and mem
| Der moved unanimous consent that
''the gentleman from Missouri be al
lowed such time as he desired to COM
plete his whistle" Applause greeted
the motion.
Fulkerson then whistled Down on
the Suwanee River" "Dixie." my Old
Kentucky Home" and I'VE Won't Go
Home Till Morning" 1t was the event
of the day at the capitol.
Rock Island Argus., 1906-03-30

"HIS is 4 dog story. To be more
explicit it Is a tale of ''the vel
low dog" and 1.-The ours" While
ii does not relate to Edward II.
Hartman and his now celebrated
'.wow wow wow by which he sepa-
rated himself from the Equitable, 1t
does concern the insurance business.
The bulls, the bears and the lambs are
not the only members of the high
finance menagerie. The insurance dog
show must be added to the list. While
interest in the ordinary canine enter
tainment Is confined to the smart
set" the insurance pets may well ex-
cite attention throughout the entire
country. For one thing. they are an
expensive bunch, and for another they
mix it up" with one another in per-
fectly enchanting manner.
Let dogs delight
To bark and bite.
You know the rest And the way these
insurance CANNES live up to that in
junction Is something scandalous. For
q year now their growing and yelping
have filed the country, and the fight
has only begun. The immense assets
of the various companies proved too
tempting a bone, and so the row start
ed. What the end may be who can tell?
The .YeIlow Dog"
Now, there are dogs and dogs. There
are the Hyde poodle, the Perkins pug
and the McCurdy shepherd dog that
looks after its own little flock. But
aside from the aristocratic and expen-
sive breeds there Is the yellow dog"
and at times he Is the most interesting
of them all.
Ordinarily the yellow dog" is not
high priced animal, but the particular
one whose biography Is here set forth
cost on the average 100000 year to
one company alone. How much he cost
other companies has not yet been told.
Something over S1,30O,OO0 in thirteen
years was the way the dog fund got
into the New York Life. There are two
other big companies and scores Of
smaller ones. The reader can figure for
himself Just how expensive that SAT-
from colored canine was. The policy
holder knows, or ought to know. He
paid the bills.
A yellow dog" Is supposed to take
almost anything thrown in his direc-
tIon-tin cans, brickbats, clubs, hard
names and blasphemy. This dog didn't.
He showed his teeth.
When those who had utilized him to
fetch and carry for them got into a
tight place they tried to make the yel-
low one stand for their iniquity. AS
Rock Island Argus., 1906-03-30
wbere the Lady Was Going.

An official of a New England road
told the following:
The ticket agents in the Boston office
of our road are greatly troubled by
patrons who, when wishing to pur-
chase tickets, lay down coin and
neither tell where they are going nor
how many tickets they want. This ne
cessitates one or more questions on the
part of the patient agent One day
little elderly lady approached the Win
dow of the office. placing large fami-
" umbrella ON the slab. and, after
fumbling nervously in her pocketbook,
pulled out a quarter and laid 1T down
without a word to the ticket seller.
where are you going. madam ask
ed the ticket agent.
.Oh. I'm going to the DOCTOR" was
the tremulous reply.