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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-09-15
STATE HAS BEEN F1EECrD
HOW the Indignant Insane" Plea Has
Been Worked to Save Money
for Some People. 4

for Some People.
Adrian, Mich, Sept. IA. - Assistant
Attorney General A. p. Hicks. at the
lnstigation Of Attorney General Bird,
has been Investigating the fleeing of
the state by counties, private persons
and estates in the matter of the pub
lie care of "indigent" insane patients.
HICKS mas already looked into $50
cases. AS a result thirty-six suits for
reimbursement to the state have been
started since April: twenty-five orders
have already been obtained. and ap-
proximately $4,000 has been ordered
paid upon back maintenance accounts.
counties in many cases have adj
mltted patients as indigents where
there were considerable estates" said
Bird. Others, who have been INDECENT
when sent to the asylum, have come
into property afterwards. Others are
INDECENT by reason of having families
to support, but afterwards the family
has grown up or died. Because Of
these facts the state has paid large
sums for the care of insane patients
when it should not have done So"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-09-15
Local JOttings.

Senator Tillman tonight.
The best fair of them all next
week.
Operator Henry Koch is in Mil
waukee.
L. Alt & Sons have a carload of
fine watermelons.
Fred Garner is in Milwaukee
taking in the fair.
F. G. Basford and family went
to Milwaukee yesterday.
Warren Hannum IS home from
Madison for a weeks visit.
Mrs. B. J. Kicks of Boscobel is
a guest at the editors home.
Buying a basket at a basket
social is like buying a cat in a bag
Roy Pemberthy is here from
Oklahoma for a visit with friends.
Will Mccormick is home from
Chicago for visit through the fair.
Miss Anime Belscamper re-
turned to school at Appleton yes
day.
Henry Baker is in attendance
at the NJ. E. conference at Dodge
vile.
Mrs. Moulton of Two Harbors
is a guest of her father, John
Schreiner.
Don't fail to see the famous
Japs in their acrobatic feats at the
fair next week.
Rudolph Sanders and wife of
Madison were Lancaster visitors
first of the week.
The w. G. T U. will meet to-
day at p. m. IN the chapel of the
Methodist church.
There will be two big dances in
Knapp's hall fair week, Thursday
and Friday nights.
Get your partners for the two
big dances in Knapp'sl hall fair
week, Thursday and Friday nights.
The best paper in Grant county
for year and ticket to the coun-
ty fair both for $3.50. Subscribe
now.
Remember the meeting of the
Republican County Central COM
mlttee at the court house next Mon
day at p. m.
Mrs. Geo. McCollister of Gales
burg returned home Thursday
morning after pleasant visit with
Lancaster relatives.
IS. G. Ransom and wife, highly
esteemed residents of Mt. Ida, cele-
brated their 50th wedding ami
versary last Sunday.
-Mesdames A. J. lowell and
Geo. Blakesley attended the funer
al tOf VIM. Skate, well known
citizen OF Livingston, yesterday.
Running a business without
advertising is Ike winking at girl
IN the dark you know what you are
dong maybe but nobody else does9
Among the old-timers to re-
linqulsh the struggle of life the past
week was John Dinsdale of Preston
who passed away at a ripe old age.
Mrs. J. T. Morgans went to
Dodgeville Thursday afternoon to
attend the M. E. conference, join
ing her husband there. Rev. Nor
gans intends to return here for
another year.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

Villa tract on the north, upon which he
intends to build an expensive mansion.
The five acres Immediately adjoining
this on the north have been sold by p
S. McNutt to Mr.. Williams of New
York city, who is planning the erec-
tion of a $4,000 residence thereon.
l.. G. Brand has sold the past week
to r. G. Thornton, attorney of Los
Angeles, four acres adjoining the Casa
Verdugo Villa tract and facing on Cen
trail avenue. Mr.. Thornton is planning
a $4,000 home for himself to be erected
at once upon a part of this land.
d. McNiven has sold the west ten
acres of his land to DR.. M. e. Spinks
of Los Angeles for $4,000. DIR. Spinks
will erect handsome home upon this
ground.
Mr.. Vrooman of Toledo, o., has pur-
chased the four acres adjoining the AL
bert Dow place on the west, and has
arranged for the immediate erection
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

ing the week when the sale of lot 80
on Marine street was confirmed, the
transfer being from Z. w. Hiles, owner
Of the toboggan, to w. S. Heneman.
The purchase price is stated as $6SO0
net.
Mrs, G. L. Webb and Miss NJ. G..
Rice, two well known local women,
have formed a business partnership,
and as the Conservative Realty COM
pany will maintain conveniently located
and attractive offices at 225 Utah
avenue. The ladies, in addition to
handling rentals, will make speciality
of high-class residence and acreage
property.
The sale of twenty-five feet of busi-
ness property on Third street, between
Utah and Oregon avenues, was report
ed during the week, II. e. Huston pay
ing $650O for the property, which he
will hold as an investment.
I Twenty-six acres adjoining the
Rancho del May on the short line be-
tween Venice and Clarksdale have been
purchased by a land investment syndi-
cate, in which w. A. Polkinghorn is
mentioned as the heaviest stockholder.
The property will be improved, sub
divided and put on the market at an
early date.
DIR. w. H. Earle Of Los Angeles has
purchased two adjoining lots on the
ocean front near Del Mar avenue and
will erect $4,000 residence. The sale
was made through the Southern Cali
fornia Realty company. This firm,
which is among the most substantial
covering the bay section, reports a no.
ticeable increase in the demand for low
priced residence property.
Venice
The following sales through the
agency Of John A. Worthington were
made recently: Two lots in Ocean
Park Villa tract, $500 EACH lot in Coral
Crest tract, $1,000; lot on Paloma street,
$1,000; one acre in Wright's addition,
$3.50.
Bradt & Bangs report having made
several sales of residence property re-
Gently and have several large deals in
acreage under way.
The Miller-Pike Land company is
making g specially of Kings county
acreage and offers as an inducement to
prospective purchasers a plan where
by for 800 down and $40 monthly pay
ments until the property is paid for,
without interest or taxes, a tract of
ten acres may be had at a net cost of
$3.50 to the buyer. All Of the land is
irrigable and some Of 1t Is in a state
Of cultivation.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01
1T IS A CAT IN A PIANO
Man With a Gun Concludes Not to
XIII the "Ghost" That
Troubles Him
speeial 70 The Herald.

bDeclaI 10 Inc Herald
RISING SUN, Pa, March 31.-When
Jacob Houseman's piano began ap-
parently to play itself in his parlor,
near Eagle Point, last night, Jacob re-
luctantly got out Of bed, reached for his
gun and declared:
"Well, If it is ghosts, We'll have 1t
out right now"
Descending the stairs cautiously on
tiptoe, he silently opened the parlor
door, only to find that the piano, right
there before him. kept on playing, with
out finger on the keys!
His first impulse was to blaze away,
but he thought of the cost of the piano
and of the feelings of his aroused fam
lily upstairs, and discretion got the bet
ter of his valor.
He cautiously opened the top of the
piano, and out jumped the gladdest cat
that was ever released from musical
thralldom of the other sort. Puss had
evidently ''smelled a mouse" and
thought she smelled 1t in the piano.
Observing her mistake, she had pranced
across the hammers and wires in the
most unconventional fashion.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

busy with the street and sidewalk
work on this tract. which is being put
in complete condition as fast as the
weather permits.
This week l.. c. Brand has sold to
H. B. Allen Of South Pasadena lots 1,
and of the Baugh tract facing east
on Central avenue. This ten acres will
be plated at once as the first addi-
ton to the Casa Verdugo Villa tract
L. C. Brand has also sold to ]. v.
Vickers of Los Angeles for $4,000, the
five-acre knoll Immediately north of
Casa Verdugo and facing on Mountain
avenue. A corps of Surveyors was on
the ground Thursday presumably fix
ing the location of the site for the $75,-
900 hotel, which it is reported Mr..
Vickers will build at once on this
ground.
J. v. Vickers has also purchased
two and a half acres facing Central
avenue and adjoining the Casa Verdugo
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01
GLENDALE REALTY
GOING RAPIDLY
BEAUTIFUL HOME SITES NEAR
CASA VERDUG0
Final Touches Given the Villa Tract
That Goes on the Market
Today--List Of Important
Sales

The very strong and large real estate
movement in Glendale and North Glen
dale, including the Casa Verdugo dis
trict, that has prevailed for the last
four months, continues without abate-
ment. During the past week the final
touches to the Casa Verdugo Villa
tract have been made and 1t goes on
the market today. 1t comprises about
$50 large. level lots with from 30 to 100
feet frontage, and is located one block
west of the Pacific Electric line at
Casa Verdugo.
Several preliminary sales have al
ready been made in this tract, includ-
ing three lots on the corner of Central
avenue and Lorraine street, to ]. e. S.
Heath of South Pasadena, and lots
on Melrose avenue to Mrs. Hattie e.
Holcomb and j. r. Walton.
The San Rafael Investment company,
Of which N. C.. Kelley is manager, is
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01
SELL NEW TRACTS
NEAR THE BEACH
SANTA MONICA COMPANY LAYS
OUT SUBDIVISIONS
Grand Boulevard Is Being Completed
to Make a Broad Drive From
Los Angeles to the
Sea
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SANTA MONICA, March S1-West-
gate and Westgate Acres, two new sub
divisions lying west of the city and
owned by the Santa Monica Land &
Water company, are among other
properties in this section enjoying a
steady adaVnce in values and that ap-
peal especially to the homeseeker Of
moderate means, to whom healthy sur
Toundings is an important considera-
tion.
The company is now completing a
grand boulevard known as the San
Vincente road, extending from the Sol
diers' home to the ocean. This beauti-
ful driveway Zone hundred and thirty
1eet Wide) runs in graceful sweeping
curves and affords an outlook upon
some OF the finest views of mountain,
valley and sea to be found in the state,
thus making 1t most delightful drive.
Steps are now being taken to connect
1T with Sunset boulevard at Holly
wood, making one grand, broad drive
from the city to the sea by the way of
the National home and Westgate,
Drives and Walks
The entire property is being improved
with beautiful winding drives walks
and other features that go with first
class real estate Improvement Added
10 lnlS, tne Los Angeles Pacific Electric
railway has extended it's system UP
TO the Soldiers home grounds and
through the properties, giving another
outlet TO the sea, establishing another
loop similar to that now going through
ocean park, nearer the Santa Monica
canyon and Long Wharf. With the
completion of this system Westgate is.
as lar as transportation goes, one of
tne most desirably located suburban
residence sites in Southern California
1t is only twelve minutes from Holly
wood; only twelve minutes from the
bathing at Santa Monica and only
forty minutes from theaters and
churches at Los Angeles.
Westgace Acres stretches from the
Soldiers home to the sea on a high
mesa, sloping up into and backed by
the mountains of the Santa Monica
range, facing combination of unsur-
passed valley and marine views and is
between six and seven miles in length
This mesa is dotted with sycamores
here and there, live oaks and already
considerable number of handsome
country homes adorn the property
Thousands of Acres
1t is purposed to develop this entire
stretch of mesa land, bringing thou
sands of acres under one ownership
which, when improved and beautified,
will be the most desirable suburban
residence district Of Southern Cali
fornia. The first steps are being taken
right at the very door of the National
home. Adjoining it on the west, what
Is known as "Westgate" has been laid
out, and the work Of improvement is
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01
A Question of PhraseoIoqy

'It is hoped that in the course of time
this malady called grip will disappear"
said the physician.
1T won't disappear" answered the
skeptic. Fashions will merely change
and people will go back to the custom
of saying they have bad colds."--Wash-
ington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

Of a handsome home on the property.
Albert N. Melin has sold lot Is of the
Baugh tract facing Central avenue to
N. G: Kelley of Los Angeles, who
has plated same and added 1t to the
Casa Verdugo Villa tract.
Between forty and fifty dwellings
are now being planned and under way
in the Casa Verdugo and Glendale dis
tricts and prospects are that this num-
Der will be largely increased in the
near future
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01
Ocean Park

C. j. Hildeshim & Co. closed an i'm
portant deal in business property dur
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

The prolific soil has been fortune
Garner for scores of Chino ranch
ers.
The State Agricultural Station, estab-
ished on the property, is an ad-
vantage enjoyed by few ranch
districts in the entire West.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

Two hundred excursionists are going
to Chino Ranch on Tuesday,
April 3, to investigate these
proft-producing acres.
Southern Pacific trains leave daily for
Chino at sos a. m. and 5:25 p. m.
, 1906-01-31
NAVAL EXPERTS
WANT MORE SHIPS
DECLARE UNITED STATES NEEDS
SWEETEST AND HEAVIEST
BATTLESHIPS ON EARTH.
Pointing Out to Congress Coming
Launching of Japanese Vessel, the
Satsuma, Greatest Fighting Ma
chine That Ever Rode the Seas
President Stands by Navy.

Washington, Jan. 31.-Squalls that
threaten. to develop into a storm are
raging around the navy department
and congress. American naval experts
are striving to impress on congress the
fact that this nation needs the swiftest
and heaviest ~battleships that can be
built, and refer to the fact that Japan
is about ready to float the greatest
fighting machine that ever rode the
seas, the Satsuma, of $4,000 tons. Sec
Rotary Taft calls the attention of con-
gress to the fact that the army prac-
tically is made ineffective for use in
case of a foreign war or if trouble
should break out in our insular pos
sessions, because of the total made.
quacy of the transport service and the
scant number of American ships that
could be pressed into service for the
transportation of troops. In reply con-
gress has pointed out that the navy de
partment is exceeding the a%ppropria.
lions each year by hundreds of thou
sands of dollars and that such extra
vagance must cease. Last year the Of
ficials of the department not only ex-
pended the entire amount allowed them
for repair and maintenance of ma
chinery," but exceeded that amount by
81, 600, 1000. Chairman Tawney I'M the
members of the house committee on
appropriations have just refused to en-
terrain the plea that congress make
good this deficiency. To all appear
ances there is promise of congress tax
ing some drastic action to curtail ma
val expenses.
, 1906-01-31
GRANTS
OFF FOR CHICAGO
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER OF
WYOMING TO ATTEND CON-
VENTIoN IN WINDY CITY.
Convention Includes Governors, Attor-
neys Gene'e and Insurance Com
mi~ssioners of All the States-,~-s.
Gray Wolf Taken to Newcastle
State BY Telegraph.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 31.-State Aud.
itor Leroy Grant, and ex-oficio insur,
ance commissioner of Wyoming, has
gone to Chicago to attend the conven-
ton called by the insurance commits
sion of the District OF Columbia to be
held at that place tomorrow.
The convention includes the COVER
nors, attorneys general and insurance
commissioners of all of the states and
will be held for the purpose of formu-
lating uniform laws for the regulation
of insurance companies in all of the
states. Commissioner Grant favors the
project and believes in state supervis-
ion.
Plans will also be discussed to Sc
cure the defeat of the bill now pend
ing in congress by which the supervis-
ion of insurance companies will be TAX,
en- out of the hands of the respective
states. This would mean a loss tc
Wyoming alone of over $25,OO annu
ally in revenue.
, 1906-01-31
ENGINE
is STARTED
STEAM TURNED ON AND WHEEL
MADE. SEVERAL REVOLT
TloNS DURING MORNING.
Few Slight Leaks of Steam Found and
Shopmen Put to Work to Make Re-
~Pairs-Engine Drove One Set of
Rolls in Big MiIIs-signaI Whistles
Blown for First Time.

The big engine at the rolling mills
was started today, making its first rev.
olution since it was shut down by the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company two
years ago. True, it was run only a
short time, receiving its steam through
IA two-inch pipe from the single boiler
under pressure, and did not run very
fast, but it ran fast enough, and long
enough, to give the district foreman,
Mr.. Sullivan, an opportunity to note
the effect of the steam and to order
some slight repairs for leaks about the
steam chest. The engine works
smoothly and practically without noise,
and drove one set of rolls in the nine
teen-inch mill. The new boilers are
being installed and will soon be ready
to supply steam through the s~even-inch
main pipe to the large engine.
The roll signal whistles were blown
today for the first time since they
sounded the signal to close when the
Fuel company left the mill. The wills
ties are inside the building. There
was an involuntary cheering and clap
ping of hands among the score or more
men, including a reporter for The Re
publican, when the big mill signal was
sounded and the rolls began to revolve.
The engine will be made good as new
against the opening of the mill.
, 1906-01-31
Rolling Mill Notes,

Superintendent Jacobus is expected
10 assume full control tomorrow.
The laying of brick for the founda-
tons of the two new boilers began to-
day.
Carpenters are at work on the false
work for the boilers and will go from
there to the warehouse.
Workmen were today lining up the
housings for the little mill, getting
ready to install the rolls.
The big whistle on the outside of the
building will probably not be blown
until the mill is ready to start.
The engine hat drives the little mill
was given its initial run this morning,
and moved to the satisfaction of Mr.
Sullivan, who was present.
Men are preparing to install the huge
oil tank. They encountered three feet
of frozen earth, which had to be brok,
zen down with hammers and wedges
The pipes have been laid and are rea
dy to connect with the tank. Oil viii
be used in the furnaces in the spike
mill to heat the rods for the spike ant
bolt machines.
The spike rod furnace will be com
pleted today or tomorrow. 1t will bt
fourteen feet long, with an oil spray a
each end. The smokestack for the ole
, 1906-01-31
The Matter in Court.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 31.-The mat
ter was taken into the supreme court
on a writ of injunction to compel the
state treasurer to pay to the so-called
agricultural college at Lander the
money belonging to the agricultural
college of the University of Wyoming.
The injunction was asked by State
Secretary Fenimore Chatterton as at
torney for the Lander institution and
his colleagues, and the state treasurer
was represented by Messrs. j. w.
Lacey, Attorney General Mullen, T. F..
Burke and N. E. Corthell of Laramie.
Arguments were made and the matter
taken under advisement.
The Lander institution claimed that
the repeating act of the last legisla-
ture was unconstitutional, as he So
called Lander institution had been
located there by vote of the people.
The defense was divided among the
four attorneys, who each took a part
OF the argument. The constitution
ality of the act submitting the matter
to a vote of the people was attacked,
together with other features of the
case, so that the supreme court had a
thorough knowledge of the case.
, 1906-01-31
Special to The Republican.


Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 31.-The state
supreme court today knocked the last
prop from under the so-called agricuI-
tural college at Lander and left it
not only with nothing to stand upon,
but absolutely with nothing to consti-
tute a body had it a thousand legs.
The supreme court met at 10 o'clock
this morning and handed down a de-
cision in the agricultural college case.
The opinion extended over forty pages
of typewriter matter n was very
broad and comprehensive. 1t was
prepared by Chief Justice c. N. Potter
and was concurred in by Justices
Beard and Van Orsdel.
The court holds unanimously that
the repeating act passed by the last
legislative assembly is entirely consti-
t%utional, and that the agricultural col
lege at Lander was a public corpora
ton, and not a private one, and that
the legislature had power to repeal it's
charter Upon the whole, the court
reaches the following conclusions:
That there is no legislation which
would authorize the payment of the
money by the state treasurer to the
treasurer of the so-called agricultural
college located at Lander, even though
the repeating act of 1906 had not been
passed, and that the repeating act op-
crates and was effective to discontinue
the agricultural college at Lander as a
, 1906-01-31

Kansas City, Mo, Jan. 31.-HaviDg
pardoned 1872 workhouse prisoners,
Mayor Rose today sent to the council a
statement of his reasons. He says:
"a majority of the petty crimes were
committed under a stress of circum-
stances by poor persons. The econom-
ic INSTRUMENTATION, by means of
which the few wealthy do not produce
while the many produce the wealth
they don't getisthe cause of four-tenths
of all the crime. The present system
is to pound away at the effect without
touching the cause. Only those whose
freedom would menace the public OF
the safety of life or property should be
confined. What good is accomplish.
ed by putting on the rock pile one who
has imbibed toe freely in Missouri?
, 1906-01-31
BIGGER THAN THE
CHICAGO EXHIBIT
STOCK SHOW ATTRACTING LARGE
CROWDS OF SlGHTSEERS
AND BUYERS AT DENVER.
Thirty Thousand Gathered Today and
Witnessed Judging of Some of the
cattle-Executive Committee of
New Consolidated Association to
Be Chosen Tomorrow.

Denver, Colo, Jan. 31.-The stock
exhibition at the yards here is a par
ticularly attractive one and the crowds
in attendance are enormous Nearly
10000 people gathered by 1 o'clock
and the stock show promises to rival,
if not exceed, that of Chicago. The
election of the executive committee of
the American National Live Stock as.
ISOLATION will be held tomorrow and a
bitter fight is expected.
At today's session the association
stood firmly for fair railroad rates
and an open foreign market. Senator
Harris of Chicago and j. NJ. John OF
Trinidad Were the principal speakers
at this mornings session. Mr.. Johr
declared that congress will eventual,
turn owe the public domain to tn,
live stock associations.
, 1906-01-31
Huge Gray Wolf.

Newcastle, Wyo., Jan. 31.-The larg
est gray wolf ever seen in this section
has been brought in by Tom Lamb, ]
NJ. Cornelison and Ole Solson, stock.
men of this section. Although attack,
ed by a pack of fifteen large wolf
hounds the animal fought successfully
for almost half an hour before being
killed. He killed one of the hounds
and badly wounded several others. So
numerous have the wolves and coyotes
become in this section that the stock.
men are organizing for the purpose of
offering a special bounty on the hides
of the animals in addition to the state
bounty.
, 1906-01-31
Independents Enter Protest,

Chanute, Kas., Jan. 31.-The indie
pendent producers of the Chanute dis.
trict have called a mass meeting for
this afternoon to protest against the
impression given out by a meeting OF
producers at Kansas City that the oil
men want Missouri to stop its fight on
the Standard. They look upon the Kan,
sas City meeting merely as a Standard
move. Resolutions will be adopted this
AFTERNOON to let the country know the
sentiment of the real independent pro
ducers.