Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1907-12-12

at Livingston. A good job is thus as
sured.
How the cranks do multiply. A doz-
en- or more of them are subsisting on
peanuts; nothing else. Now comes a
Texan who is trying cactus and calls it
good. Eek.
1t is supposed that most of the
money that has been in hiding will
come out now for the Christmas season.
You cant hide anything from Santa
Claus.
The Prairie du Chen Weekly Court
err has advanced the price of subscrip-
ton to $3.50 per year. Here is what
editor Merrill says: 1.-The heavy ad-
vance in print paper has compelled
many OF the publishers of country
weeklies to advance their subscription
price. Any paper worth paying for,
is cheap enough at $3.50. The circula-
ton of the country weekly is necessari-
ly limited. and with light advertising
patronage, no money can be made at
81. so year.
The hunting season of 1907 was a
disastrous one. No less than eighty
persons killed and 100 wounded is the
awful record for the licensed hunting
season in the United States. Wisconsin
leads all the states in the number of ia
talities. This is probably due to the
fact that more persons engage in hunt
ing in this state than in any other state
in the union. The list of casualties in
Wisconsin is the largest of any in the
history of the state. Thirty-four per-
sons were killed and forty-fve seriously
injured.
1t isn't often that one hears of a
COW with wooden leg, but there is
one such at Winslow. Some time ago
Gordon & Lloyd, who make a business
of shipping cattle for dairy purposes,
had a COW that broke her right front
leg and it was turned over to Veterin-
airy Geo. Eells, and it was thought to be
useless. He amputated the leg at the
knee joint and the leg having healed,
Mr.. Eells carved out wooden leg
which he strapped to the stump. Since
then her ladyship has given birth to a
calf and they are both doing nicely. -
Winslow Register.
-Galena Tribune: Our people were
shocked Wednesday morning to learn
of the tragic death of Raymond Bender,
a young man of this city. He had gone
that morning to the bridge plant of his
father where he was employed as a
machinist. At about $3.50 shot was
heard in the boiler room and his brother
and others rusiicd tn re and found Ray
mond lying upon the floor with bullet
through his heart. A pistol lay upon
the floor beside him. A coroner's in
quest was held over the remains and
the verdict was that Mr.. Bender came
to his death by accidental shooting.
Raymond was boy of less than TWEEN
ty-two years and it is inexpressibly sad
that he is thus cut down in the bloom
of his early manhood.
The following story is told of fell
low who was ever ready to send bis
money out of town to mail order houses
ETC., and poses as one who is wise above
that which is written. lie recently an
swered the following advertisement in
an eastern paper; ''We will send II
cents for 1902 pennies. He scraped
around until he got fifty of the 1902
mintage and forwarded them in reg
istered letter. He received immediate
reply saying that when he sent 1852
more pennies, sufficient to make up the
number 1902-he would receive his II
cents. He gave himself kick, borrowed
enough to subscribe for his home paper
and proposes in the future to keep post
ed on these little graft games.
The Warren Sentinel Leader is au-
thority for the following: An earth
quake was felt at Kent and Lena about
1920 Thanksgiving morning, and it was
telegraphed to the Chicago papers.
But next day it came out that farmer
| five miles west of Lena while blasting
stumps had placed about twenty pounds
of dynamite under hot rock to keep it
warm and that the stuff exploded The
farmer and boy were about four rods
away when the explosion occurred and
for few seconds they imagined the
heavens and the earth had come to-
gether. They escaped injury while a
log ten feet long with piece of carpet
and a coat on it was blown to smith
Greens. Eleven windows in the home
of John Workhizer, 100 rods distant,
were broken and a hole torn in the
ground four feet deep where the ex-
plosive was located.
| Nearly every up-to-date magazine
contains in it's columns numerous reci-
pes of how to be beautiful. An ex-
change gives the following: To pro-