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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
EARTHQUAKES IN CARlBBEES.
Phenomena Always Attended by
Dread Bordering ON Terror.

Phenomena Always Attended by
Dread Bordering ON Terror.
To us the lands and countries about
the Caribbean Sea are of the greatest
interest and Importance. Our people
will be locating there with more and
increasing frequency, and all the while
the ties of international cooperation
will become stronger, says Francis Q.
Nicholas in the Review Of Reviews.
That eruptive and seismic disasters
have afflicted places in those regions
will not deter us very much, for one
has abundant faith that it is not going
to happen to him, and good many of
our people are locating directly in
range Of the volcanoes, happy and pros
pering along with the natives.
The region is not very far away. A
few days ON the steamer and one is in
the tropics. That bit Of yellow seaweed
picked up at the shore last summer be-
cause it was different from the others
was probably brought by the gulf
stream from the Caribbean regions and
carried to our shores by southerly
wind. Surely it is not far-away coun-
try that we are considering, and it is
very beautiful-sunshine and flowers,
green savannas and towering noun
tains, torrential rivers, clear, splashing
brooks and deep blue seas.
Why should one think Of earth
quakes? My own experiences with them
have happily been free from scenes Of
death; yet the coming of an earthquake
is so sudden, so wildly terrible, that the
stoutest hearts must quail. Even wild
animals shrink with fear, and one is
always filled with dread bordering on
terror. 1t is all so sudden. A sense
Of some unknown fear pervades all ma
ture, as if the spirit Of the world had
caught it's breath and held all life an
instant in suspense, while sounds seem
to beset ones nerves rather than to
assault the ears. Then comes a reel
ing, sickening, staggering motion, and
fear, and human crying out, and then
quivering silence for the space OF
breath, followed perhaps by crushing
destruction, or, it may be, by sound
like a great signing and the earth set
ties back, that the pulsations of ma
ture may begin again in harmony. Then
excited people find their voices, be-
wildered faces CLEAN with intelligence
and every one is talking, comparing ex-
periences, wondering what it was,
where it had come from and how it
had gone away. Such have been my
experiences with earthquakes in the
Caribbean regions.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
STATE MAY AGAIN
SUE RAILROADS.
Action to Collect Back Taxes on Re-
bates Will Probably Be
Instituted,

MADISON, Wis, June 23.-Wiscon-
of the state for back taxes OH rebates,
under the ad valorem act, now that the
supreme court has decided the law con-
stitutional. According to Attorney Gen
eral Sturdevant the taxes ON rebates
during the last six years foots up to
81, 100000. But the state may institute
suits covering a larger period. In such
event several millions may be recovered
to the state treasury.
Following the decision of the supreme
court sustaining the ad valorem law
though the imposition of $4,000 fines
on each Of four roads was reversed-it
is expected by the state officials that
there will be rush by railroad compa-
MES to pay their back taxes. Should
the companies do this about a dozen
suits against them will be dismissed
For a number of years the railroads
deducted their rebates from their gross
earnings, and paid license tax only on
the remainder. The state is suing for
taxes on the amount deducted. -
Interest Act Sustained. .-s'tsS
Under the supreme courts decision
the Chicago & North-W estern must pay
$4,000 as a penalty for refusing to pay
taxes on $1S9,OO0 of it's earnings, which,
the state contended, was due under the
ad valorem tax.
The supreme courts decision also sus-
tanned I'm act passed by the Legislature
in May, 1905, imposing an interest rate
of Is per cent. on taxes withheld by
railroads.
It is said that the railroads will appeal
to the United States supreme court on
the grounds that federal questions are
involved.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
LOSE PENALTY CASES.
Decision Against Recovery from Roads
by State.

MADISON, Wis, June 22.-fSpecial. I
The penalty cases decided in favor Of
the state by Circuit Judge Stevens were
reversed by the supreme court. In this
litigation the state stipulated away its
case, agreeing that the railroads filed
their false and inaccurate reports Of
gross earnings in good faith
Justice Cassoday did not dissent from
the opinion, which was written by JUS
tice Marshall, as reported, but reached
his conclusion in a different way.
Underneath the decisions in the pen-'
atty cases decided today by the court,
lies much that has made the political is
sues of the state for the past few years.
Senator La Toilette while governor and
before his first election advocated the
taxation of railroads upon an ad valorem
basis. While procuring material upon
this question to be used in the advance
ment of this principle, Commissioner
John Thomas discovered that the rail-
roads had not correctly reported their
gross earnings for taxation.
In his report Mr.. Thomas said that
the sum of $1,69S, 0765S had been with
held and at per cent. the interest due
the state in taxes was $67,923.O7.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
TIMBER FOR INDIANS.
La FolIette's Bill Passes Senate and Goes
tn President

WASHINGTON, D. c.. June %
The Menominee Indian bill, which per-
mits the Indians on the Green Bay reser-
walton to manufacture into lumber the
dead and down timber on their lands,
passed the Senate yesterday.
Under the bill, one-ffth of what is
realized will be used to build roads and
make other necessary improvements at
the agency and the remainder is put into
a fund and held by the government for
the benefit of the tribe. The bill will
now go to the President.
MADISON, Wis, June 23.-The SUI
preme court in the case of Tomkins
VS.. Indian Agent Campbell has given
a decision that the agent can retain
funds of the Indians and that citizenship
does not remove restrictions placed on
the nations wards.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
Stalking Wild Geese.

In a number of counties lying on both
central portion of California, the farm
ers are greatly harassed every winter
by the depredations of countless flocks
of wild geese, which swarm over the
broad grain fields and destroy the
young, sprouting grain stalks. Indeed,
so serious has this annual invasion be-
come that nearly all the large farms
have employees who regularly patrol the
fields, and do nothing else but keep the
feathered pests on the wing.
One of the most novel blinds or stalk
ers ever used in that section, or any
other, for the purpose Of destroying the
geese, is that of a Colusa farmer who
lives on the bank of the Sacramento.
He has a big red steer which he has
trained to stalk geese. The steer walks
round a flock of geese in an ever de-
creasing circle, his master, armed with
a repeating shotgun, walking beside
him, but on the farther side from the
flock.
Lie geese nave OcSohIC 81 uoCO "
seeing animals grazing near that they
pay no attention to them; so the farm
er is enabled to get within shotgun dis
lance and pour a broadside into the
flock while it is feeding on the ground,
and two more shots before the birds
are out of. range when they rise.
This dumb hunter is held In great es-
TEEN by it's owner and his family, 1t Is
needless to state, and receives the best
of everything.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
CHAPTER XVI.

Well, at all events, we have tried it ~
These words were spoken by the mere
remnant of man to solitary compan-
lon while both looked out-peered through
the twilight-on death. He who spoke
crouched in a singular way on the hard
snow, supporting himself on one fur-clad
arm. He could not stand, for he had
but one leg. The other had been cut off
Just above the knee-a recent amputation.
rudely tied with rope. was stained deep,
suggestive color. His face was a horrid
sight to look upon, for here and there
IN the pasty yellow flesh were deep in
dentauons of half-healed sores, the re-
suit of frost bite. One eye was quite
closed by a swelling which deformed the
features and drew them all up. He spoke
IA mumbling way, as if his tongue were
swollen or diseased, and the language was
most dramatic of all tongues-Russian.
dis companion, short, thick-set man,
stood beside him; but he stood weakly,
ana the terribly sunken lines of his cheeks
Coid story only slightly less horrible
tnan that depicted by the face and form
OF the cripple. Both faces alike bore
mat strange dry look which tells unerr-
'Asly of starvation.
Within few yards of the two men,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29

bottle labeled "Spiritus." He poured the
contents over the wood and struck match.
In moment the blue flames leaped up
and the wood cracked. He crouched down
to the leeward side, so close that his
clothes were singed and gave forth
sharp, acrid smell. He withdrew his
mittens and held his bare, Scared hands
right into the flames.
"Ah!" he murmured in a gurgling
voice, shat is good %
But it did not last long. The wood
was light and very dry, and in five min
utes there was nothing left but few
smoldering ashes.
The doctor rose to his feet and looked
long and steadily out to the north over
the broken ice. His eyes fingered over
each white mound and hillock-not loving
ly, for it was horribly dismal, almost too
dismal to be part of this world at all.
Strange to say, his eyes finished their
inspection by looking up to heaven. The
great snow-clouds were rolling south,
bearing in their huge, rounded bosoms the
white pail to cover continent for many
months to come. But this man seemed
to be looking beyond the clouds, seeking
to penetrate the dim ether. He was not
looking at the sky, but into heaven. At
last he gave a contemptuous little shrug
of the shoulders, full of terrible mean
ing. The next moment he sought for
something in the inner pocket of his fur
tunic. There was a CLEAN of dull, rusted
metal, and he raised his hand toward his
open mouth. At the same instant sharp
report broke upon that echoless silence,
and little puff of white smoke was borne
southwark on the breeze.
Ito De continued.)
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
WOULD FREE KOMP.
Pardon May Be Sought for Ex-Kenosha
Banker Whose Appeal Was Lost
in Supreme Court.

KENOSHA, Wis, June 22.-[Spe-
cial. 1.-The supreme court of Wisconsin
cut OH the ra last nope f Of ba
nosha state bank, to escape prison. The
court handed down decision affirming
the decisions of the lower court by which
Komp had been found guilty of perjury
It is hardly possible that Komp viii
appeal to the United States courts. The
friends Of the ex-banker will seek a par
don.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
Short.

81 hear some scientists are going to
try to make the north pole with an air
ship. Do they intend to stay long?'
"Oh, no. They're only going to make
flying trip."-Detroit Free Press.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
WORK TRAIN IN WRECK.
Several Laborers Hurt When Cars Pile
Up Near Fond du Lac.

FOND DU LAC, Wis, June GA
work train on the North Western road
was derailed three miles east of the city
yesterday afternoon. The engine, tender,
thirty-two cars and caboose left the
track. Anton Landick of Princeton, an
italian laborer, sustained serious inter
nal injuries, and other workmen were
cut up and bruised, but none seriously.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
Change to Ad valorem system.


or a constructive accounting between 1t and
such taxing districts.
Change to Ad Valorem System.
The ad valorem taxation law was the
product of the legislative session of 1908,
and sought to change the system of tax
ing railroads from the license to the per-
centage upon valuation set by the state
tax commission sitting as the state board
of assessment. The law was drafted by
the tax commission after four years of
careful study.
The law provided that the railroads
should pay into the state treasury the
regular license fee as paid under the
gross earnings system and that when
the valuation of the road was made and
the assessment rate determined, that any
excess should be paid back to the COM
pany and any deficiency should be made
good by the railroad company.
The act was attacked by the North
Western company.
The decision of this case settles the
validity of the act and disposes of twelve
other cases now pending against the
state.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29

Trouble is about the only thing that
you can borrow that is not wanted
back.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29

! and the avails be treated as pelinging to
the state for public purposes, on the theory
OF a constructive accounting between 1t and
such taxing districts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20

the labor movement have been urging
me to get behind some project Of this
kind and start it off. There is a great
need for a strong organization to give
the laboring people much needed pro-
lection Usually a labOring man is un-
able to carry any of the expensive
forms of life insurance which are
offered. He is obliged to pay out
whatever he earns as fast as it comes
in. He can't get ahead
death overtakes him, he is in de-
plorable condition. His family is
without money and the family is left
on the charity of the community.
Working men know how often this is
the case. One of their fellow work
men dies suddenly, or is laid up with
a long sickness. It becomes abso-
lutely necessary for the men to cireu-
late a paper pledging 80 cents or a
dollar apiece to help out. This prac-
tically amounts to assessment insur
ance and that is the kind of insur-
ance we propose to offer.
1--WE will probably open up a cen
trail office here in Topeka, and estab-
fish subordinate councils throughout
the state, as is done by the fraternal
Insurance organizations. We will aim
to confine our work to the better class
of laboring men. A man viii have to
be a member of some labor union to
get in. unless he can come with recon-
mendations from some union man. In
this way we can protect the class of
membership, and get only the best
risks"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20
NEW INSURANCE SOCIETY.
w. L. A. johnson, Labor Commits
siOner, at It's Head.

w L. A. Johnson, state labor COM
missioner, is going into the Insurance
business as a side issue. He is head
of a new company just organized to
write sick and funeral dement's Tor
laboring men, and the benehclarles
will probably be limited mostly to
members Of labor unions
Associated with him in this enter
prise are P J. Monahan, the Topeka
coal man; f E. Grimes. ex-state
treasurer; w c. A. Lietzow, and
Hiram Lands. all residents of Topeka.
They have organized a company which
thew call The beneficial Brotherhood
Of Industrial Societies" This new or
ganization VIII within snort time
open up headquarters in Topeka and
start the work of establishing Subordi-
nate Councils throughout Kansas
and other states. It will be handled
lust as the frateTnal life Insurance
companies are handled. The members
viii pay assessments to meet the oene-
fits paid
The plan is to AFFORD laboring men
a cheap form of insurance, which viii
pay them 5000 for funeral expenses in
case of death. and also pay a small
weekly benefit IN case of sickness,
This organization has secured a
charter, and is authorized 10 transact
business for 80 years. A meeting viii
be held in a few days to elect ofhcers
and launch the actual work of the or
ganization. Some person viii be given
the Job of secretary. and the secretary
will be expected to be in direct charge
Of the business of the society. In
speaking of the plan, Labor Commits
sioner Johnson said today:
For some time people interested in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20
HE'S PROUD OF KANSAS.
George w. Martin Compares Our His
tOrfcaI Society With Eastern Ones.

Geo. W. Martin, secretary of the State
Historical society. has returned from
months vacation trip in the east He
attended the meeting of the National
Historical society, and also visited the
state societies of a number of eastern
states. He says of the trip
when 1t comes to collections of relics
and documents, those eastern cities of
course have vastly more material than
we have here. I saw twenty bound
volumes Of the original manuscripts of
William Penn; five volumes of the writ
ing of Benjamin Franklin and the orig
inal White House expense kept by Pres
ident George Washington. Indications
are that the White House was run on a
very economical basis in those DAYS II
devote most of his income to paying
back loans which had been made to
him
"Our collection Of newspap is much
more complete thar anything I saw in
the east. Here we save every paper
published in the state. and have them
bound. Back there they only preserve
certain of the more important publica-
lions. In fact, considering the relative
age of our department, and those back
east I was very well satisfied with kan
sas I picked up a good many new ideas
about my work here, and while Ihave1't
anything special TO tell about in the
way of possible changes, I expect the
results OF my trip 10 De cropping UUS
now and then.
I'm all the time I was away I saw only
four drunken men I don't quite under
stand this because ii seems IS though
there was q saloon on every corner in
some of those towns. and a few in the
middle Of each block besides. Somebody
must drink a lot Of liquor 10 keep all
those places up, but I didn't see any
signs of excessive intoxicatiOn. l fig
ured it out that a few chaps must do all
=, rT-fr, fr7a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20
EDWARDS FIRST LEvEE.
Season Is opened by the King at Buck
ingham Palace.

London, Feb. 2O.-King Edward held
the first levee of the season at Bucking-
ham palace at noon today thus avoid
ing the state procession to St. James
palace, where the levees are usually
held. The occasion, however, was not
robbed of its picturesqueness there be-
ing large attendance of cabinet minis
tiers. the leading members OF the oppo-
sition and the foreign diplomats.
among whom were Ambassador Reid
and members Of the American embas-
sy, including Delaney Jack, Ambas-
sador Reds private secretary, and
Lieutenant Commander John n. Glib
bons. naval attache to the embassy,
who on this occasion attended his first
IeVee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20

Kline's cafe and joint, went insane
Monday afternoon, and ran down to
the Rock Island depot, where he
asked Patrolman Hendricks to protect
him from imaginary enemies. He said
that two jointists we're after him and
were intent on taking his gore. Fail
ing to pacify the man, Hendricks took
him to the county jail and had him
locked up on a charge of insanity.
Van Horn was taken to the asylum
about a year ago under similar cir
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20

Chas. W Moore, a machinist of Ford
City. Pa. had his hand frightfully burned
in an electrical furnace. He applied Buck
lens Arn{ca Salve with the usual result:
"A quick and perfect cure" Greatest
healer on earth for burns. wounds, sores,
eczema and piles. z5c at the Arnold Drug
Co, 81 North Kansas ave-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20
New kansas Postnlasters.

Washington. Feb. 20.-H- T. Reed has
declined to be reappointed at Basil.
Kfngman county, Kan. Dora a. Reed
was today appointed his successor in
the office William Burge was appointed
postmaster at Pana, Stanton county, in
the place of r. Weber, resigned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20

cumstances, but released as cured in
a Few days. His insanity is the result
of alcoholism.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20
FLETCHER FINED ONLY $40.
His ORense Was Beating His Wife Who
Supported Him in a Resort.

Herbert Fletcher, a white man arrest
ed for beating his wife. the inmate of a
disorderly house, and then resisting ar
rest, was fined only so in police court
this morning.
Fletcher has been living in a disor-
derlv house and compelling his vie 70
support him. Last night about 6 o;eloe1I
Detectives Ross and Smith were caIIed
by the woman, who said her b11sband
had beaten her and driven her out Of tha
house. When the officers went afta-
Fletcher. he resisted, and alrnoss eonred
Ross eye out in the scuf7e The 0ficer-
got him down, and then he was win
ing 70 peg Tor mercy. The officers did
not hurt nm, but it VIII be several
weeks before Ross RECEIVERS the fun use
of his eye. -
The story told by Fletcher's wife W..
has been compelled to slIpDort -
worthless husband by a life Of shane
exposes only one of many cases Of fbe
same sort which are allowed in iTonei-a