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Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-15
Killed by Santa Fe Engine
BY Associated Press.

MARTINEZ, March 14.-Joseph r..
Avilla, an employe of the Pacific Coast
on company's works, was struck by
the engine of a Santa Fe passenger
train near Gateley yesterday and killed
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-15
LOS ANGELANS SENTENCED
Fnstad and Coughener Each Get Long
Terms for Murder of Rutherford
and McMurray
BY Associated Press.

BY ASEOcIaIeU PTeEB.
Ell PASO March 14.-Ole e. Finstad
and T. G. Coughener of Los Angeles
were sentenced today at Santa Rosalia,
Mex, to twelve years and six months
each in the penitentiary for the mur-
der of r. w. Rutherford of Philadel-
phia and C. w. McMurray of Los An
geles at the Diaz ranch in Chihuahua.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-15
RENNENKAMPFF THREATENS
Governor General VIII Execute 600
Revolutionists If an Attempt
Is Made Upon His Life

BY Associated Press.
CHITA, Russia, March 14.-On ac-
count of the wholesale arrests and exc
cutions characterizing the repression
of the revolutionists, numerous threats
have been made against the life of
Governor General Rennenkampff. and
the latter today issued proclamation
in which he announced that If an at
tempt is made upon his life or upon
the lives of members of his escort. all
the revolutionists now in prison will be
executed within an hour.
There are 500 revolutionists in prison
here, and sixty military executions
have taken place at Chita or in its
vicinity.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-15
Chinese Thugs Reheaded
By Associated Press

bY NSSOCIHItH FTtSN.
CANTON, March 14-The leaders of
the Kuang Si province and three others.
who were implicated in the attack on
the house of the Rev. DR.. Andrew
Beatie, the American missionary at
Fati in February, were beheaded
March u. :.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-15
Samuel J. Hendy
BY Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 14-Samuel
j. Hendy, president of the Joshua
Hendy Machine works, died alto his
home in this city today after brief
illness.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-15
John Jacob Anderson
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March 14.-John Jacob
Anderson, author of Anderson's school
histories, died at his home in Brooklyn
today in his eighty-siXth year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
Holding a Right Of Way.

In the early days Of western rail-
way building-days not so long gone
by as to be out of memory-there
were many exciting races between
rival roads for the possession of i'm
portant mountain passes. Such a race
was that between the Atkinson and
the Rio Grande roads for the right Of
way through Ration Pass, to New Mex
leo and the Southwest.
Engineers and construction gangs
worked in mad haste to get to it
ahead of their rivals. The victory
fell to the chief of the Atkinson.
When the Rio Grande cohorts arriv-
ed they found him alone in one of
the big gorges, shovel in hand, slicing
earth from an 5000 foot hill.
what are you doing there?" they
asked.
Constructing a railroad" he re-
piled. He turned another shovel of
dirt, dropped the tool and hitched up
his heavy cartrige belt.
"Any one who interferes with the
Atchison does it at his own risk" he
said, quietly.
First the Rio Grande men laughed,
and then they ragged, and then they
turned and went away. Their road
was cut off from the South forever.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
State News in Brief.

Julius Badtke of Bristol, KenOsha
county, was killed while chOpping trees.
A freight brakeman named Chambers
was killed at Valley Junction by being
run over.
Bank Commissioner Bergh has issued
a charter to the Farmers State bank
in Sullivan. The capital is $4,000.
The directors and officers of the Ma
tionaI bank of Beaver Dam were re
elected at the stockholders meeting.
A check for $3.50, the last of a gift
of $4,000 for a new library, has been
received at Madison, from Andrew Car
negie.
Charles B. Pride, well-known APP
pletOn paper mill architect, was slightly
injured in the West hotel fire at Min
neapOlis.
Ernest Dunn, a young Waupun farm
en- is dead with blood poisoning. While
cleaning pork barrel he scratched his
finger ON a nail.
In New London, A. Klingert, aged
30, attempted to cut his throat with a
razor. He was discovered in time and
will probably live.
Rev. William Heltse of Beaver Dam, is
dead of injuries received from a fall on
the ice while skating.
Mrs Herman FroehIich of Horizon
disappeared Jan. /, and no trace has
been found. She had been mentally de-
ranged for some time, it is said.
Kit Gregg, driver for the Marinette
fire department, was nearly drowned
in Green Bay while relocating with AS
sistant Chief S. III. Dukett and John
Johnson.
John Carlson, claiming Chicago as
his home, had both legs severed under
Wisconsin Central passenger train
near Chippewa Falls. Carlson claims
he was thrown off by brakeman.
J.. y. COSTLY, assistant superintend-
ent of the Ashland division o. the
Northwestern Railway, has been APP
pointed superintendent Of the Nebraska
division, with headquarters at Chadron
Neb.
Otto Schultz s months old, was burn
ed to death in Appleton, while his broth
er and sister, and years old were
playing Indian during the mothers alb
sence. The two older children piled
paper around the baby while it lay on
the couch and ignited the pile.
4 Racine coroner's jury which render
ed a verdict that the death of John X.
Johnson, killed by Il Northwestern train.
was due to the employees of the railway
company, has been reproved by Coroner
Hoyle, who publicly announced that the
verdict was not justified in face of tho
evidence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
THE CHASTITY HIGHWAY,
Hardshtps of the Overland Trail I'm
the DAYS oR 40.

H1Rdsh1ps or the Overland Trail I'm
the Days of 40.
The scattering overland migration
to Oregon and California-beginnin
so early as 1846, became a neyer-par-
alleled tide by the spring of 1849
when the gold rush was really on, says
Charles +. Lammis in McClures. In
all the chronicles Of mankind there is
nothing else like this translation of
humanity across an unconquered will
derness.
In it's painless distances, its inevi-
table hardships and it's frequent saw
age perils, reckoned with the charac-
ter of the men, women and children
concerned, it stands alone. The era
was one Of national hard times, but
ministers, doctors, lawyers, merchants
and farmers, with their families,
caught the new yellow fever and be-
took themselves to a journey fifty
times as long and hard as the average
Of them had ever taken before. Pow
der, lead, foodstuffs, household goods,
wives, sisters, mothers and babies
rode in the Osnaberg- sheeted prairie
sch0onerS, or whatsoever wheeled con-
veyances the emigrant could scare up,
from ancient top buggies to new Con-
estogas; while the men rode their
horses or mules, or trudged beside the
caravans. A historic party of five
Frenchmen pushed a handwagon from
the Missouri to the coast, and one man
trundled his possessions in a wheel
barrow. At it's best it was an itinerary
untranslatable to the present genera
ton; at its worst, with India-s massa-
cres, thirsts, SHOWS, "tenderfooted-
ness" and disease, it was one of the
ghastliest highways in history. The
worst chapter Of caDnibalism in our
national record was that of the Bonner
party, showed in from November to
March, 1849-5O, in the Sierra Nevada
In the Dos the Asiatic cholera crawled
in upon the plains and like a gray
wolf followed the wagon trains from
the river" to the Rockies. In the
height Of the migration from 1000 to
5000 immigrants died Of this pestf-
lence, and if there was half mile
where the Indians had failed to pune
tuate with grave, the cholera took
care to remedy the omission. The
2,OOO-mile trip was a matter of four
months when easy, and of six with
bad luck. Children were born and
people died, worried greenhorns quar-
relied and killed one another-and the
train struggled on.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
"ARABIAN NIGHTS" PALACE.
Maharajah's Home of Blue and White
Marble,

There is now rising in the North
west Punjab a royal palace, which for
beauty and splendor will eclipse any
similar building in India, the country
already so rich in monumental treas
ures.
1t is the new winter palace of his
highness the Maharajah of Kapurtha-
la, and the total cost, it is anticipated,
will not be far short Of 100000.
ut will be a dream in blue and
white MARBLE" was the terse but pic
turesque description given Of the
building by man Intimately connect
ed with it's construction, "and the de-
signers," he added, might we'll have
based their plans upon the gorgeous
palaces which appear only in the pages
Of the Arabian Nights"
Despite the famous speech Of Lord
Curzon, in which he deplored the fact
that Totenham court road art was
ousting native art in the palaces Of
Indian rulers, the new building will
almost throughout be decorated In Eu-
ropean style.
All round this vast palace Of delight
will run a spacious veranda with mar
BILE floors, supported by blue Canadian
marble, the cOlors of the maharaiah.
will be paved with blue and white
marble, the colors of the maharapah.
There will be fourteen state rooms,
many Of them overlooking a beautiful
courtyard and gardens, where foun-
tains will play among the foliage.
The durbar hail alone of all the
chambers will be decorated in Indian
style. Adjoining it will be the state
salon, in the style of Louis XIV, and
the English dining room of Charles
ii. period. The many other rooms in
the palace will eXemplify the best rep
resentative periods of English and
French art The erection and decora-
ton will occupy about two years more.
SO far as sanitary arrangements,
ventilation and lighting are concerned,
it will be equal to any building in the
world. All fittings, furniture, car
pets, wall papers, curtains, panels,
tiles, marble, etc, everything of the
finest procurable, will be taken from
this country, and the kitchens, the
fitting Of which will cost $4,000, will,
it is stated, be second to none in the
wOrld.-LondOn Mail.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
DIVORCE WAS NO JOKE.
Sharon Man Must Now Stand Suit
Brought by Wife.

Luther Arnold, wealthy farmer, mer
chant and cattle buyer of Sharon, has
been served with summons in an action
for divorce brought by his wife. Cruel
and inhuman treatment and the trump
ing up of charges, in order that he might
secure divorce, and infdelity are charg-
ed in the complaint. Last August Ar
mold was granted a divorce at KenOsha.
Mrs. Arnold failed to appear in court,
the summons and complaint having been
given her by a son, as she believed a
joke was being practiced on her. When
she found that decree had been grant
ed she had it set aside.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
THE vAcARoND.

! canaOt bide the sober town,
With decent villa. church and
square;
nor madam with her stylish gown,
Nor master with his glossy hair,
cannot bide the sober town,
Nor madam with her stylish gown.
But | would over vale and hill,
And draw the breath of distance
free,
And roam from opal dawn until
The twilight creeps across the lea.
OIL would over vale and hill,
And sleep in barn or ruin'd mill.
For VagabOnd was born,
l love to wander far and wide,
And seek out places most forlorn.
And evil hills where men have died,
For I a vagabond was born,
And love the twilight and the morn.
I love all wild and woeful lands
Where I may talk with woods and
streams,
Or walk on deso!ate sea sands,
And tell the ocean of my dreams.
love all wild and woeful lands,
And oceans dolorous wet sands.
love to watch the sunset die,
And hear the large nights solemn
words,
And on the moonlit heather lie,
And wake to greet the morning
birds.
love to watch the sunset die,
And on the moonlit heather lie.
For oh! I hate the sober town,
I hate the villa, church and square,
I long to knock the houses down,
And ruf1e masters glossy hair.
For oh! | hate the sober town,
And madam's modish silken gown
But alb! the country air is pure.
And ah! the country lads are true.
And loving comrades they'll endure;
They'll stand by me, they'll stand
by you.
But all the country air is pure,
And country friendships long en-
dure.
Douglas Goldring, in the Academy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
Wisconsin
State News
TO INvEsTIGATE COMPANIES.
Insurance Business in This State
Will Be Thoroughly Gone Into.
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Insurance Business in This State
Will Be Thoroughly Gone Into.
I'VE propose to make the most thor
Ough and complete investigation of life
insurance that can be made and one that
the people will have full confidence in.
No other would be satisfactory or any
thing but farce. 1t necessarily would
take long time and entail quite an ex-
pense but we believe the people will be
satisfied with the investment" SO spoke
Senator ROehr, of the special insurance
investigating committee appointed at a
recent special session of the Legislature
to look into the subject of life insur-
ance in this State. The committee met
for the first time in the State capitol the
other day and organized by selecting
Senator Frear chairman and Assembly
man Ekern secretary. Other prelimi-
narieS to organization and investigation
were made and after a session an adj
Journment was taken for about two
weeks. When all the details have been
arranged the investigation will be car
ried on from Milwaukee.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
Saline Round Cane Horn.

Memories of the old sailing ship
days and of the record passages Of
the famous China tea clippers are
wildly recalled by the seven remark
able passages which have been made
during the last twenty-one months
by the German steel masted ship
Preussen. This vessel, with a gross
tonnage of more than 5000 tons, is
the largest wind jammer'' afioat
and she can carry 5000 tons Of nj
trate. She is regularly engaged in
trading between Hamburg and the nj
trate ports on the west coast of
South America, and since March,
1904, has made three complete round
voyages, out and home, and one out
ward passage to IquiQue.
The Preussen has thus rounded
Cape Horn-"The Corner" as sailor
men call it-.-no fewer than sever
times within twenty-one months, q
marvellous sailing record. That the
Germans have not lost all faith In
masts and canvas is evidenced by the
fact that at the present time there is
building at Bremerhaven a five mast
ed steel bark which will be ever
larger than the Preussen. This new
bark will however be fitted with tri
pie expansion engines Of 1000 horse
power, which will enable her to steam
seven or eight knots an hour in calm
weather-London Daily Graphic
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31

'It's pretty nara on you, Vsn't it,
little girl2 Perhaps l can manage
to raise the money in someway. I'd
like to see my Polly in that stun
ming frock, but know her too well
to imagine that she would enjoy it II
the boys must stay at home"
There was look on her fathers
tired, patient face as he began to
examine the most promising of the
accounts, that went straight to Polly's
heart, and she threw her arms about
him, pressing her cheek to his thick
gray hair.
Mono, Daddy she cried, don't
bother with those horrid - you
oughtn't to spare the money, and the
organdie will do very we'll for me-"
Doctor Adams was not a demonstra-
tive man, but there was something in
the look and kiss he gave his daugh-
ter that left a warm feeling in her
heart for days. Polly left the check
with him with strict injunctions to
secrecy, for the boys were unselfish
little fellows whose pleasure would
have been spoiled had they learned of
her sacrifice.
The next few weeks were busy
ones The boys were mended, patched
and generally made ready for the ex,
petition. Then the white organdie
was tucked and ruffled by Polly'S
deft fingers, and when it had been
trimmed with some pretty lace contri-
buted by her good stepmother, and a
soft sash CT liberty silk was added,
she regarded her handiwork with
justifiable pride. Even at the we'd
ding, among all the exquisite crea-
lions from New York and Paris the
little frock, beautified by the memory
of her fathers look and kiss, did not
seem to Polly so very plain.
Her uncle and aunt, inconsolable
at the loss of their daughter, kept
Polly for fw days after the we'd
ding, affordi.1g her delightful
glimpse of the gaities of city life. She
therefore arrived at home just as the
boys returned. wild with enthusiasm
over their weeks experience in
Camp Patriotism"
cit was the best fun I ever had
in all my life, Polly" declared Billy.
my, but those hemlock boughs were
nice to sleep on, and one night the
snow sifted right through the roof and
lay an inch thick on our blankets in
the morning.
"And then Mr.. Scott told us all
about what our soldiers suffered at
Valley Forge so we could have this
nice country to live in without any
king to boss US" broke in Jack
eagerly.
"And I'll fight for my country
against every nation in this whole
world" shouted Bobby.
But Sam said soberly "Mr Scott
says we may never be called upon to
fight her battles, but we can all help
to save our country from the foes
Of her observation-disclosures officials
and Polly, dear, I understand now
What we owe our native land, and
that if we serve her faithfully in war
and peace, we've something to be
proud of, even if we live and die poor
men,"
And at these words a faint, linger-
ing regret for that wonderful frock
vanished forever from Polly's mind
The Little Chronicle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
ASSAULT LAID TO BAKER.

WATERFOWL Man Accused of StrfIx-
ing Woman.
James Wells, who has been employed
as baker in WATERFOWL, was arrested
at Oconomowoc on board a Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul train by Sheriff
Palmer and Marshal Vessel, on the
charge of creating a disturbance in the
coach. 1t is alleged that when asked
for his ticket, Wells replied that a wom-
an who occupied a seat across the aisle,
would pay his fare. She protested, it
is further averred, and he struck her.
Passengers say when they interfered,
Wells showed fight, but was soon over
powered
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
BANK GETS BAD CHECKS.
Racine Institution Suffers from Al
legged FOrgerieS.

Charles w. Bingham, who, it is al
legged, has been issuing forged checks and
drafts on the Manufacturers National
bank of Racine. is not known in that
city. For more than six weeks these
checks have been coming in from differ.
ent cities of the country. B. B. Nor
throp, cashier of the bank, says that in
some manner the alleged Bingham had
secured one of their check books. He
estimates that perhaps half a dozen bo-
gus checks for from $25 to $50 have
come in, and also number of drafts.
Some of them were from Augusta, Fla,
Charleston, s. c., New York, and also
Michigan towns.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31

Marinettc Man Says DOttfe Wilson
Stole $500 Soon After Wedding.
Threatening to commit suicide, it is
alleged by the police, Hilmer Sherman
a Marinette man, was picked up by an
officer and placed in Jail. The other
night in Menominee, he was married to
a woman saying she was Dottie Wilson.
She remained with him for two days,
since which time he was unable to find
her, he says. She had arisen during the
night and fed from the town with $500
belonging to Sherman, his savings of
year. The police charge that the woman
deliberately married Sherman in order to
rob him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
HOW 1t Feels.

Another baby? Girl this time, ell :"
exclaimed Chumley. well how does
it feel to be the father of a daugh-
ter?"
Great replied Popley. "One of the
first things you think about is how
some foreign nobleman will come
counting her some day and how you'll
turn him down good and proper" =
Philadelphia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
The Proving
of Polly


Polly Adams sat by the easement
window in the livi1g-room of an old
colonial house beaming over an open
letter.
ooh, Mother" she exclaimed, wav-
Ing check before the eyes OF her
stepmother, a fragile looking woman
who was lying on a couch, "isn't Mar
lon simply dear? l am the luckiest
girl! Now I can"
The sentence was never finished be-
cause just then four boys rushed into
the room and fell upon Polly with
confused shouts of:
'Oh, Polly, Mr.. Scott has invited us
to go with him to his camp in the
Adirondacks-"
"And to stay whole week be-
sides
and we're going to be soldiers in
camp"
with uniforms and everything"
"What do you mean, boys? de-
manded Polly Of her brothers. "You
surely don't expect to go camping in
the dead of Winter?"
Sam, the eldest, boy of IA, ex-
planned: "Mr. Scott says his shack
Is very comfortable, with a big open
fireplace, and with hemlock branches
Tor beds and lots of blankets we'll
be all right
''And he says that if we do get a.
taste of hardship, it will teach us to
remember the soldiers at Valley
forge"
when they were fighting for our
rights against the British" chimed in
Billy, who, with his twin, Bobby, was,
to quote old Silas, the man of all
work. jest risin' twelve"
Little Jack, who was "half-past
eight" added solemnly, "Mr. Scott
says it's perfectly scandlous that the
boys in this town don't seem to know
a thing bout the History of their
country"
''Polly's eyes kindled with the sud-
den excitement. She was an ardent
little patriot. immensely proud of the
tact that she numbered a signer of
the Declaration of independence
among her ancestors. 1t had always
been a grief to her that she had been
Unable to inspire her brothers with
the same patriotic spirit. Polly, be-
ing near the boys own age, saw things
from their point of view, and she
realized that even children, in this
generation, were learning to regard
The acquisition of wealth as the one
means of attaining all that makes life
desirable.
It was consequently a delightful
surprise to her to learn that the new
teacher. Mr.. Scott, realized the neces-
sity of interesting the rising genera
ton in the History of brave men who
had sacrificed wealth and life itself to
patriotism.
you see, Polly" Sam went on,
more definitely, while the. twins fes-
TONED themselves over Polly's chair,
and Jack lay on the floor at her
feet, MIR. Scott has asked twenty of
the boys to go, and he has lot of
British and Continental uniforms
which were bought for private theat-
ricals in his old schOol-and we're to
have sham battles and enact Wash
tngton crossing the Delaware, and
all sorts of things
Then Jack lifted to his sister pair
of honest blue eyes: "And, say, Pol
", we fellows thought it would be a
Sood plan for you to ask Dad if we
gould go; cause our railroad fare VIII
Be Eve dollars apiece"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE.

Sensational Explanation Given by
Attendants at Racine Asylum.
Herman Pfeiffer, aged 20, a former
prominent Inspector of the United States
government, is dying at Racine county
hospital, with a crushed skull He has
been an inmate two years. 1t is alleged
that relatives attempted to kidnap him.
The attempt failed. Later he made an
effort to escape from his room by means
of a bed sheet, it is alleged. Reaching
the window sill he fell and struck on
his head, is the story of attendants
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
FOX PELT FOR MISS ALICE.
Wedding Gift Is Paid for by Rich
New York Man.

Lucian Kennedy, a GAINESVILLE fur col
lectOr, has shipped the New York firm
of Reveillon Freres a silver fox pelt
valued at $500, which will be wedding
gift to Miss Roosevelt from a wealthy
New Yorker. Crowds have viewed the
pelt, which was purchased for a nOmi-
nal sum from the Canadian trapper.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31
NIanitOwOc Suicides Horne.

Miss Ida Grutzmacher, who commit
ted suicide in Milwaukee by inhaling
chlorOform, is the daughter of Fred
Grutzmacher of ManitOwoc. She
had been in Milwaukee for some time
and was living with her sister.