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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
STATE AIDS FARMERS.
University Experts Direct Drainage
of Acreaue

OF Acreage.
The department of soils of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin agricultural col
lege is rendering material aid, as far
as time permits, to individual farmers
or groups of farmers in the state in
solving problems in land drainage In
gtructor E. r. Jones during the last
six months has spent from one to
three days on each of ten different
farms or areas in Northern and East
ern Wisconsin. One of the projects
was the organization of a drainage
district, and two others involbed the
laying out of town bitches. The re
mainder of the work has consisted of
running levels, laying out main and
lateral lines of tile, and computing
the available grades. Grade stakes
have been set for the farmers, and in
two instances demonstrations have
been made in the laying of tile.
Although it is necessary to ask
those directly benefited to pay the
travelling expenses incurred no charge
whatever is made for services render
ed 1t is the policy of the soils de-
partment, whenever possible, to send
man with an instrument to help
any farmer or group Of farmers in the
attic land drainage, an dthereby to in
crease the productivity of Wisconsin
soils.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
IS SWEPT BY PRAIRIE FIRE
WILkIN COUNTY FARMS DEVAS.
TATED-BoY CAUSES $4,000
LOSS.

GAINESVILLE, Mimi, Oct. %. - The
worst prairie fire in years is devastat-
ing the northeastern part of Wilkin
county, and seems to defy all efforts
to check its progress. Three large
farms have been entirely wiped out,
and there seems no question but that
others will go. The damage done thus
far is estimated at not less than $50
900.
The fire was started Saturday after
noon by boy who was playing with
matches on the farm of Charles
Fundscock, and all the buildings on
that place, including the house, barns,
granaries and sheds, were destroyed.
The wind was light, and the people
living in the path of the flames had
ample chance to escape, no lives hav.
ing been lost as far as is known. The
entire region is very dry, however.
and the flames spread rapidly. Ten
large haystacks, containing between
between 500 and 900 tons of hay,
were destroyed in an hour during the
afternoon.
The old Lavalley farm and the
Evans place are in ruins, and farmers
throughout the region which is burn.
ing are working hard to check the
confagration by blowing up the coun'
try. If a high wind should spring UP
their work would be fruitless, but UP
to last night the wind was light, and
the progress of the flames, which was
in a southwesterly direction, was com.
paratively slow. The lack Of wind is
the only feature in favor of the farm.
ers, as the absence of rain for days
past has converted the prairies into
huge finder fields.
Considerable alarm was felt for the
town of Lawnsdale, on the Great
Northern line, as it was directly in the
path of tthe fire, but the town escaped
without damage, though all the coun'
try about it was laid waste.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
LET FACULTY TRY FIRST.
Wisconsin Regents Refuse to Inter-
fere in Student Affairs.

Wisconsin Regents Refuse to Inter-
fere in Student Affairs.
Rushes, fraternities and hazing are
matters to be looked after by the uni
versity faculty and are not subjects
which the regents will take up until
the faculty shows itself powerless or
incompetent to adequately deal with
these things.
This is the policy pursued by the
board of regents of the University of
Wisconsin, as determ@nd when it was
suggested that the governing body OF
the institution make rules with regard
to the violent class contests, the
Greek letter secret societies and the
haZing of new students.
1t was said that some members of
the board of regents were determined
that the Greeks should be compelled
to disband and that the haZing and
rushes should cease, but when the
matters were touched upon in the
meeting of the regents it was decided
to take no action on the ground that
the faculty and president of the uni
yersity could be depended upon to adj
equately police and regulate the in
cidents of student life and activity.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
NORTHWEST NEWS
CAR SHORTAGE NOT PROBABLE
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER MILLS
REPORTS CONDITIONS I'M
PROVING.

ST. Paul, Oct 23-The shortage of
freight cars which has been embar-
RAISING the railroads for some weeks
is now somewhat improved, and the
railroads will be able to handle the sit
uation with reasonable satisfaction, IS
THE opinion of Judge Ira B. Mills,
chairman of the. state railroad and
warehouse commission. Mr.. Mills said
yesterday that he thought the situation
shows an improvement now and he
does not look for anything like re-
currence of last winters car shortage.
One of the conditions which increas-
ed the difficulties for the railroads re-
Gently in supplying the demand for
cars was the scarcity of labor during
the harvest time. In many cases where
cars were delivered for unloading
ehere was a considerable delay, owing
to the fact that men could not be OBJ
tanned to unload them. With this con-
dition prevailing generally through
out the Northwest, the result was
that a large number of cars was prac-
tically put out of service for days at
a time. and the railroads wer eunable
to supply the demands at other
points. This difficulty has now been
overcome and less delay is occasioned
because of lack of labor.
The supply of coal which has al
ready gone into the Northwest will
make it easier to keep the territory
supplied during the winter.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
STATE TAX GROWS $4,000, 900.
Wisconsin Commission Finishes Esti-
no.+a and Paoeints Are Anpor+;onad

Wisconsin Commission Finishes Esti-
mate and Receipts Are Apportioned.
The Wisconsin state tax commits
sion. sitting as the state board of as
sessment. has announced the annual
assessment Of all real and personal
property in the state. The total as
sessment is $2.256. 100000, as against
S2.124.800,000 last year, an increase
of $131. 100000. The total value of
real property this year is fixed at
$1,78O, 265,161 as against $1,671 JAP, 204
last year. an increase of $109 122,957.
The total of all personal property is
fixed at $476,034,S39, as against $453.-
657.796 last year. an increase of 1922
377.043.
The annual state taxes based on
this assessment. which SO far as the
state is concerned is similar to the
equalization of assessments annually
made by each county board. The total
amount of state taxes to be collected
this year is $2,656,637. divided as fol-
lows: For common schools, $1,379.-
40: for state normal schools, $780,
900: for state university, $644.657: for
graded schools, $120,OOO; for free high
schools, $125,000: for interest on on
state debt. $157, $50.
These state taxes will require
levy of LIT mills on each dollar of
valuation of property in the state. In
other words, after provision has been
made for all town, village, city and
county taxes, LIT mills will have to
be added for each dollar of valuation
for state. purposes. The secretary of
state will in a few days certify to
each county clerk the amount of state
taxes that his county will have to
raise.
Tie increase in valuations of prop
erty in the different counties is gen
eral, though that of Milwaukee coun-
ty is the largest because the largest
amount of taxable property is in that
county The increase in Milwaukee
county is, in round numbers, $4,000
600 The next largest increase is in
Dane county, where the raise is &c.
100000 The valuation in Dodge coun-
ty is boosted $3,800,000, Marathon
county $3,40O,000, Fond du Lac $4,300,-
600 and Winnebago $2,700,000.-W.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
RAISE RATES FOR DEAD.
Increased Cost of Living Is Met by
Raise in Collins and Burial Lots.

Raise in Coffins and Burial Lots.
Not only does it cost more to live
in Appleton than it did week aged
but it costs more to die. The hotels
of the city raised their rates from ~
to 1925 a day and meals from SO to
GO cents. The BARRIERS at the same
time raised the price of shaves from
10 to Is cents, and the trustees of the
st. Joseph cemetery announced a raise
of 5 per cent in the price of lots IN
the cemetery.
With -four up 40 cents barrel IN
the last week, the same German trus-
tees notified the owners Of lots in the
cemetery that it would cost them 81
a year for the care of the bivouac OF
the dead. Baskets have kept in the
race with barley for the top notch
prices, and while the grain has adj
vanced 10 cents a bushel, the caskets
have gone UP $40.
Liverymen have been agitating for
a raise in the price of hearses ar1
hacks for funerals for some time, and
if oats and hay go any higher they
will be forced to raise the hearses
from $40 to SIS and hacks from So to
81 for burial purposes.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
State News of Interest
CHEESE SCORE WELL UP.
p. n. Casper of Welcome Gets Grad
ina of 1888.

p. n. Casper of Welcome Gets Grad
ing of e7s3.
The higest score given any Of the
fifty-eight entries in the University of
Wisconsin dairy school exhibit this
month was that of P. H. Kasper of
Welcome, who was given 1888 for his
chedder cheese. Other high scores
were as follows: Edward Cejka,
1888, and J. J. Kuhn, Cleveland, 96.91,
for cheddar cneeses; William c.
Stieger, La Crosse, 96.33; William
Sieger, Chaseburg, 94.33, and T. r.
Ebert, juneau, 1888, for brick.
The exhibits included fifteen flats,
thirty-one daisies, one Young Ameri-
can, four long horns, two prints and
five bricks. A few green cheeses were
sent for scoring, but the judges de-
cided they were too young and curdy
to make a decision on flavor and tex
ture possible Some objection to the
method of holding the cheeses a
month i'll the university curing rooms
before scoring is satisfactorily an
swered by the fact that the first prize
winners for cheddars, flats, daisies
and prints at the state fair were all
won by cheeses so held at the univer-
sity The average in this months ex-
hibit was high, being 84.18, with no
score lower than 91.33. The average
moisture content in the cheddars
cheeses was 34.9 per cent, the highest
being 37.2, and the lowest 1872 In the
brick cheeses the average was some
what higher, moisture content being
and 37.6 as an average-W.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
ON COLLEGE EDUCATION.
Members of the U. of w. Faculty to
Address State Teachers.

Members of the U. of w. Faculty to
Address State Teachers.
Nine members of the faculty of the
University of Wisconsin, representing
eight different departments of instruc-
ton, will take part in the program of
convention at Milwaukee Nov. 10.
Prof. Frederick ]. Turner of the
American history department will
give an address on Essentials in
American History" and Prof Edward
A. Ross, head of the sociology depart
ment, will speak on Education and
Society" Prof T. c. Elliott, in
charge of the work in education, will
lead discussion in the~supervisory sec
ton, and H. K. Baeaett Of the same
department will discuss the prepare
ton of teachers for secondary schools.
A paper on How Chemistry Can Be
Made of Value in the Secondary
Schools" will be read by Prof. Louis
Kahlenberg, and the discussion in the
science department will be led by
Prof S. J. Holmes, zoologist. Rossiter
G. Cole, the new head of the school
of music, will give an address on "The
Place of Music in Education" Prof.
E. B. Skinner, mathematics depart
ment, will lead discussion in the math-
ematics section
Caroline L. Hunt head of the home
economics department, has a paper
on THE Responsibilities and Oppor-
tunities of the Teacher of Domestic
Science"
The university orchestra will fur
nishs musical programs for two ses-
sions Of the convention.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
MINNESOTA DEFEATS NEBRASKA
Gophers Show Up Well in First Big
Football Contest of Season.

Gophers Show Up Well in First Big
Football Contest of Season.
Minneapolis, Oct. %. = In its first
hard contest of the year the Minnesota
eleven Saturday defeated Nebraska in
an interesting game by a score of 8
to 5, before a crowd of seven thou
sand football enthusiasts. The
weather, although a trife warm for the
players, was ideal from a spectators
point of view, and the entire absence
of wind gave to neither team any ad
vantage whatever. In the first halt
Minnesota was outplayed at the start
but rallied later and continued to i'm
prove as the game progressed. In the
second period the Gophers were by
far the stronger of the two teams, fol
Nebraska's defense was slowly crum
bling away before the Minnesota at
tack.
Nebraska scored first in the first
half, Weller making beautiful fifty
yard run for a touchdown after fun
bic by Capron. This same Capron did
all of the scoring for the GOphers
kicking two drop kicks for eight
points later in the first period of play
In the second, although Minnesota had
the advantage, neither side scored
and the Minnesota fans went home
satisfied.
Minnesota showed wonderful inn
provement over her form in the Ames
game, for the whole eleven was fast
and full of ginger. Nebraska, al
though she made occasional good
gains, was fought at every point
while the Gopher offense got off speed
lily enough to gain good ground.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
STOVE WAS THEIR BANK.

AS a result of secreting their saw
ings in a heating stove during the
warm weather. Mr.. and Mrs. Otto
Baldwin of La Crosse lost $500 in cur
rency when they started their first fire
this fall. Mr. Baldwin had been en-
pIoyed as a lineman in Rockford, ILL.,.
and during his absence he sent his
wife his earnings, portion of which
she kept in the stove for safekeeping,
Upon his return home, MI Baldwin
started a fire on cool evening, not
knowing the money was hiddeE there.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
Badoers Win Corn Prizes,

Twenty prizes were secured on corn
at the National Corn Exposition in
Chicago by Wilsoncin corn growers.
Approximately $500 in cash prizes and
an equal abount in value Of special
prizes were won in the Wisconsin
classes. Ten of the twenty winners in
this exhibit are former students of
the University Of Wisconsin agricul-
tural college, and four of the remain
ing ten we're boys or young men who
wrew their corn in accordance with
instructions and outlines furnished by
the college.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
GINSENG is PROFITABLE.
Wausau Man Raises $40 Pounds From
One-fourteenth of an Acre.


One-fourteenth of an Acre.
The Wisconsin ginseng gardens, of
which J. H. Koehler of Wausau is pres
dent, last week brought into Wausau
$40 pounds of ginseng roots. The
roots were grown in the company's
gardens at Hamburg, on slightly less
than one-fourteenth of an acre, having
been taken taken from fifty-eight beds,
each bed 3x18 feet, the total OF the
ground planted being 1882 square
fet, or considerably less than one
half of an ordinary building lot AS
81 per pound is now being offered for
dried cultivated ginseng, and as 1t
takes about three pounds of green
roots to make one pound of dry, the
value of this little buggy load would be
about $1960. The ground was occu-
pied by this crop five years. But the
roots dug for the dry market do by no
means represent the total crop pro-
duced, for these roots, during the last
three years of their life, have pro
duced a large quantity of Seed which
was planted and has produced young
roots, and these young roots and the
remaining seed represent nearly three
times the value of the roots dug for
the dry market, so that in reality the
total crop produced on the above
space of ground in i've years is consid-
erably over $4,000, or nearly $1.60 per
square foot.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
4,o72 IN UNIVERSITY.
increase of All Students Reported at
Wisconsin.

Increase of All Students Reported at
Wisconsin.
An increase of All students over a
year ago is shown by the completed
enrolment figures of the University of
Wisconsin. The total registration this
year is 4,O72. Besides the increase in
the number of students the institution
has made a commensurate growth in
the number of members of the faculty
and staff of instruction.
This large growth is due in part to
the prosperity of the state, the people
having the money to send their young
men and women to an institution of
higher education; partly to the
growth of the belief in the practical
wisdom and necessity of university
training; partly to the natural growth
of population in the state, and partly
to the growing reputation of the
University of Wisconsin. More than
a hundred new courses have been add
ed to the university's curriculum and
various new schools and colleges have
been added, particularly among those
being the new college OF medicine au-
thorized by the last legislature.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
END HAZlNG AND RUSHING.
Wisconsin University Regents Plan to
Stop All College Rowdyism.

Wisconsin university nSSSHtS FtaH ~
Stop All College Rowdyism.
Hazing, class rushes and all forms
of student rowdyism will be elimi-
mated from the University of Wisconr
sin, if plans made by the members of
the board of regents go through. Res
olutions were introduced to the effect
and undoubtedly will pass. The &C
ton follows the injurious effects of
the class rush this fall and the recent
roit in which sophomores~ and others
were arrested for disorderly conduct,
and the faculty was scored by the city
attorney for not controlling the stu
dents
It has been discovered that the law
school efforts from depleted finances
because it was overlooked in making
up the budget, and retrenchment must
follow unless the regents devise some
means Of supplying the deficiency
w.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
University Expert for Commission.

Prof. Charles F. Burgess of the de-
partment of applied ectro-chemistry
at the University Of Wisconsin, has
just been chosen as an expert in gas
and electricity for the state railroad
rate commission. Prof. Burgess is a
graduate of the state university, hav-
ing obtained his degree of bachelor of
science in 1895, and that of electrical
engineer in 1898. He has held a pro-
fessorship in the engineering college
since 1902, and is now president of
the American Electro-Chemical socie.
+u
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
Demonstration for Taft.

Manila, Oct 23.-There was a great
demonstration here last night in hon.
or of Secretary Taft, the occasion be.
ing a banquet arranged by a commit
tee composed of members of the Ma
Mia assembly. A silver loving cup OF
native make was presented to the sec
rotary.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
WHEAT PRICES DROP. .
Bulls Badly Beaten and Their Ranks
Put to Rout.

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 23. - The wheat
market was in confusion yesterday
with the bull campaign apparently
hopelessly beaten, but with the bears
not any too sure of their ground and
feeling along cautiously. Wheat drop
ped nearly 4 cents, making a 7-cent
decline for the first two days of the
week, and the trade is considerably
demoralized.
A tight money market is having the
effect of putting down the speculative
options. and cash wheat and flour is
falling with the futures. The banking
situation in New York yesterday had
a great deal to do with the decline OF
wheat in Minneapolis and Chicago.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
BANDITS HOLD UP STAGE.
Runaway of Horses Saves Mail and
VaIuabIes.

Lewistown, Mont, Oct. %. = The
Musselshell stage was stopped yester-
day by two robbers, but the driver,
named Launceford, put up such
fight with one of the robbers that the
second man was obliged to release the
horses heads to assist his comrade.
While the fight was in progress the
team ran away, thus permitting the
mail and other matter to escape the
hands of the robbers. The driven was
robbed and brutally beaten. A posse
is in pursuit.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
GOOD JOB FOR RABER.
U. w. Regents Elect Eastern Man to
Position Paving $4,000.

The board of university regents
have chosen Louis Raber as dean of
the university correspondence school.
The salary is $4,000 annually. Prof.
Raber is one of the best known engi-
neers of the country and for the past
number of years was dean of the state
college of Pennsylvania.
F. w. Mackenzie, assistant secreta-
ry of the Merchants and Manufacture
ers association of Milwaukee, has
been elected as editor of the univer-
sity publication. The salary is $1,4OO
a year
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
THREATS OF VIOLENCE.

White Man and Negro Are Accused
Young Girls Their Victims.
Waterloo, Iowa, Oct 23.-Hundreds
of residents of Waterloo yesterday
thronged the city hall and threats of
violence were directed against Daniel
Stager, a barber, who was arrested
on a charge involving grave conse-
quences. Bob Kennedy, a negro, also
was arrested. It is alleged that Elsie
Graham, twelve years old, and her sis
ter Dolly, about sixteen years of age,
were victims of the prisoners.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
"LOW CHURCH" MEN WIN.
Rector at Appleton Congregation Re-
signs n Charge.

signs His Charge.
In the fight in the All Saints church
at Appleton between the high" and
low members of the congregation
the "low" portion has won the first
round, in the resignation of Father j.
Boyd Coke, who will go to Sheboygan.
This is a defeat for Bishop Grafton of
Fond du Lac, who was the father of
the high" church in Wisconsin. The
attendance at the Episcopal church
was dropping off under the present
regime, and, like his predecessor, Fa-
Their Delany, Father Coke had to go.
1t is thought the next minister will be
a 'low' churchman's
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
MAKES NICE SURPLUS.
St. Paul Roads Gross Earnings in
Minnesota Were $1o,041 ,940.61.

st. Paul Road.S gross earnings IN
Minnesota Were $1o,041 ,840.61.
St. Paul, Oct. 23.-The annual re
port of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway company, filed with the
railroad and warehouse commission
yesterday, shows that the company's
business for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1907, netted a surplus OF S.
72,46325 after the payment of a z
per cent dividend on both the common
and preferred stock.
The total gross earnings from OPP
GRAFTON in Minnesota were $10,041,-
840.61.
The gross earnings from operation
on the entire line was $60,548. 554 As,
and the operating expenses $39, AGO.
410.14.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
BAG MANY BLACK BEARS.

Couderay, Wis, Oct. 23.-Bear hunt.
ing in this locality is getting to be
very interesting. Four large black
bears have been shot near here the
last week and brought here for ship,
ment, the largest one weighing 300
pounds. and three smaller ones.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
FARMERS IN CLOVER.
One Pays for His Land With the First
Crop

Sank Rapids, MINI, Oct. 22.-One
Sank Rapids elevator paid out $3,51s
for ten loads of clover seed, all mar
keted by Benton county farmers. The
price was So per bushel
Matt FleigIe received a check fol
$548 for GO IL bushels, which he rails
ed on seven acres of land. A few
years ago he purchased this land fol
SIS an acre. He raised enough hay
from it by the first crop to pay for the
land.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-24
Shot While Hunting.

Saltwater, Mimi, Oct 22.-Edward
Hanley, seventeen years old, was acct
dentally shot while hunting with some
companions near here yesterday. The
bullet entered his thigh and there are
fears of blood poisoning.