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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-02-11
MAY BE COFFEE
That Causes All the Trouble.

That Causes All the Trouble.
When the house is afire, it's like
body when disease begins to show, lts
no time to talk but time to act-delay
is dangerous remove the cause OF the
trouble at once
For a number of years" says Kan
sas lady, Il felt sure that coffee was
hurting me, and yet, | was so iona OF
it, l could not give it up. | paltered
with my appetite and of course yielded
to the temptation to drink more AT
last / got so bad that l made up my
mind l must either quit the use of COT
fee or die.
Everything | ate distressed me, and
| suffered severely almost all the time
with palpitation of the heart. | fire.
quently woke up in the night with the
feeling that / was almost gone,-my
heart seemed so smothered and weak IN
It's action that l feared it would stop
beating. My breath grew short and the
least exertion set me to painting.
slept but little and suffered from rheu-
matism.
Two years ago l stopped using the
old kind Of coffee and began to use
Postum Food Coffee, and from the very
first l began to improve. 1t worked a
miraclei Now l can eat anything and
digest 1t without trouble. l sleep like
baby, and my heart beats full, strong
and easily. Ny breathing has become
steady and normal and nv rheumatism
has left me. l feel like another per-
son, and 1t is all due to quitting cof-
fee and using Postum Food Coffee, for
| haven't used any medicine and none
would have done any good as long as
kept drugging with coffee" Name CIV
en- by Postum Co., Battle Greek, Mich
There's a Reason Read the little
book, THE Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs
All grocers.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-02-11
NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The United States supreme court
nolds that the federal court had jur-
tsdiction when it enjoined the Chi
cago 75-cent gas ordinance.
Repres antative Bartholdt disclosed
combination between the east and
the south against the proposed water
way from Chicago to the gulf.
The internal commerce for year
1906 surpassed any previous year in
the nations history. says the bureau
Of statistics of the commerce depart
ment.
Advices received at Washington in
dicate that the Chinese authorities are
seeking the opinion of provincial
rulers on a proposed constitutional
government.
Senator Perkins of California de-
clares that a war with Japan is in
evitable Captain Hobson asserts
that the Nipponese would unquestion-
ably be the victors.
Japs clamor for war President
Roosevelt says they seek only a pre-
text for declaring hostilities. Frisco
educational officials were hurriedly
summoned to Washington.
Appropriations aggregating $780,
600 are carried in a bill favorabIy re-
ported by the house committee on
interstate and foreign commerce for
lighthouse establishment.
General Bel. chief of staff. has
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-02-11

onial secretary of New South Wales,
is dead at Sydney He was born in
England in 1852 and was a director
of many Australian public companies
and institutions.
George W. Denham, an old-time
actor, died from apoplexy in New
York For many years he supported
Joseph Jefferson and has appeared
with a number of other stars His
last engagement was with Wilton
Lacl1aye, in The Law and the Man.
The body of Mrs Jacob H. Gall
niger, wife of Senator Gallinger of
New Hampshire, who was stricken
in the lobby of Belascos theater in
Washington and died while being con-
veyed to the emergency hospital was
taken to Concord, n H, for burial
General William Shakespeare,
soldier, editor lawyer and banker,
died at his residence in Kalamazoo,
Mich, from wounds received in the
civil war General Shakespeare is
given credit for founding the Michi-
ment commander of the Michigan G..
A R. in 1896. He was editor of the
Kalamazoo Gazette for a number Of
years.
David Peck Rhoades, one of the
founders of the New York Tribune
and an associate of Horace Greeley,
died in Stratford, Conn, aged a..
After leaving the Tribune Mr..
Rhoades formed the New York
News Company, which business he
conducted for some years until he
sold out to the American News Com
pany and retired
Moses H. Sydenham, one of
Nebraska's earliest pioneers, died at
Kearney, of heart disease. Mr. Syden-
ham was located at old Fort Kearney
when it was the largest military sta
ton on the overland emigrant route
to the west. During the Indian
wars with the Sioux and the Chey-
ennes he took a prominent part and
later, as a civilian, he assisted in the
establishment of the state govern
ment He published the Kearney
Herald, the first newspaper issued on
the then great American desert"
Howard P rockingham, who while
delirous from a nervous breakdown
jumped from the second story of
his home in West . Seventy-seventh
street, New York, is dead. Nervous
strain due to recent reverses in Wall
street is believed to have caused
the dependency which resulted in
the deed He had passed his forty
fifth birthday and was a native of
New York city. He was the biggest
and best known loan broker in the
country, lending more cali money
annually than any other man or firm.
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FIRE LOSSES.

At Cincinnati the Day and Night
Tobacco companys plant was de-
stroyed Loss, $4,000.
At Trenton, N. j., the Imperial Por-
celain works were completely de
stroyed by fire today. The loss is
estimated at 100000
At Dwight, H., the Chicago and
Alton roundhouse was burned. All
the locomotives but two we're taken
out in time The estimated loss was
.$15O 900.
At Waterbury, Neb., fire starting
in the printing office of a weekly
newspaper destroyed four buildings,
including the Merchants hotel, entail
ing loss of $4,000.
At Ashley, Mich, The Hotel Grim
mer, recently completed, was de-
stroyed by fire, and William Thombs,
the bartender, was suffocated in his
room The loss is $4,000.
At Princeton, Mimi, fire destroyed
the Townsend block causing a loss
estimated at 100000. The volunteer
fire department was greatly handi-
capped by the cold, the thermometer
registering Is degrees below zero.
At Cincinnati fire completely de
stroyed the plant of the Thomas Kel-
sail company. manufacturers of of
fee fixtures and billiard tables. A
number of small homes adjoining
were damaged. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-02-11

Madison, Feb. 5.-Senator Sanborn
introduced a bill to make the killing
of a hunter manslaughter in the
fourth degree Some constituent of
Senator Sanborn wants to take the
profits out of the weekly newspaper
business by cutting the compensation
for printing tax lists from 80 cents
to cents per description, and pro-
viding that if no paper will publish
the lists for the low rate the list shall
be pinned up in at beast three places
in the county. Senator Sanborn in
troduced a bill to provide that all
contracts for city, county, town or
village work or for the furnishing
Of goods or materials, shall be let
to the lowest bidder, and that before
any money is paid ON such contracts
the claimant shall file an affidavit
that he is not possessed Of a monop
ely in the line covered by the con-
tract.
What may be construed as a move
ment to restrain unions in their
methods is the proposal contained in
bill fathered by Assemblyman Har-
rass, to make it a misdemeanor for
any person to obstruct the employ
ment of men because of their con-
nection with the Wisconsin National
Guard 1t is also a misdeameanor for
any organization to refuse member
ship because of such aff1liation with
the state militia This movement is
the direct result of agitation on the
part of unions to keep members of
the state militia outside of the pale
.of membership of their unions, for
the simple reason that they believe
no member of a labor organization
can serve two masters, the labor
union and the state. Wildcat mining
union and the state Wildcat mining
schemes in southern Wisconsin will
receive some more attention when
two bills, introduced by Assembly
man Roethe, are considered Mr..
Roethe proposes to prevent frauds
in drilling ores by compelling all min
ing companies to make accurate
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-02-11
A SANITARY MEASURE.

And indeed why should not the ten
thousand commercial travellers whose
annual peregrinations gridiron this
state in myriad ways be made as Sc
cure as possible from the danger Of
contracting diseases by reason of un-
sanitary hotel conveniences? They
are a great and important class quite
as much entitled to benevolent at
tention from legislators as various
other elements which fall under the
paternal aegis.
They merely ask for hotel beds and
hotel towels free as may be from the
menace of disease germs, and Sena-
tor H W. Barker seeks to recognize
the justice of their claims in bin
which he has introduced. It's provi-
sions can not possibly be regarded as
being characterized by harshness.
All that is demanded is that the foul
old endless towel, ever turning on
roller with each succeeding wipe be
outlawed, and that the upper bed
sheet be long enough to permit of It
being turned back well over the COW
ers, thus protecting the occupant of
the bed from coming into direct
physical contact with the rest of the
bedclothes.
Ugh!
It makes one fairly shudder to
think what loathsome and diseased
creatures may have slept in that very
bed the night before with perhaps no
change since except mayhap the sub
stitution of sheets, always short
enough to have permitted bodily con-
tact with the perennial quilts and,
maybe, their seeding with mischie-
vous microbes. Really first-class
hotels now provide individual towels.
All should be required to adopt the
sanitary provision. Disease easily
may be conveyed from one pair of
hands to another through the medium
of towel common to all, and when
ten thousand travelling men deem this
condition jeopardy, and when its
correction is simple, there can be no
good reason why it should not be
made. And the same is true in re-
gard to bedsheets. 1t is an entirely
reasonable demand that they should
be of kind to protect the sleeper
from disease germs off the person of
the occupant of the room the night
before. =.
This proposed legislation is said to
be novel-so much to the credit of
Senator Barker, himself widely-trav-
eled and deeply appreciative of the
dangers and discomforts con the
road;" but it's newness must not be
interpreted as condemnatory. It is
Legislation in the cause Of health
and, while we are ready and anxious
to battle even with state funds
against tuberculosis, there can be no
reason to withhold encouragement to
sanitary measures of another nature.
Senator Bankers bill cannot but
gain supporters as it's aims and pur-
poses are better understood
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recommended to Secretary Taft the
approval of the action of special
board in providing for scheme of
reorganization of the Cuban rurales
William j. Oliver, the lowest bidder
for the construction of the Panama
canal, has as his associates some of
the largest contractors in the United
States.
A bill was favorably reported by
the house committee on postof1ces
and postroads providing that 10
cents worth Of postage stamps of any
denomination may be used instead
OF a special delivery stamp.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-02-11

Madison, Feb. Senator Frozen
ming Of Milwaukee introduced a bill
to apply the examination system to
.4ccners and sellers of meats by re-
tail The bill is designed, according
to the title Ito provide for the regu-
lation of the operation of retail meat
markets" and is proposed in the in
terests of the public health. The
measure provides for the establish
ment of a board of three examiners,
to hold Office by appointment of the
governor and for terms of two years
and to receive So day and expenses
for actual service. The retail meat
sellers of experience will be entitled
to certificates. but those not now in
the business must take the required
examination A registration fee of
81 per steak-cutter is provided and
for violation of the proposed law the
penalty is a fine of s25 to 800 or
jail sentence of ten to 80 days. Sen
ator Bird introduced a bill to author
ize counties to adopt the Dunn pocket
or coupon ballot for general cleo
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-12-27
Rnnl c..l,.

"Originally What is now known as
rock candy" explained a confectione1
to a reporter was called in the trade
Gibraltar rock. Originally. also, it was
the purest kind of candy. for it was
crystallized sugar pure and simple.
Ordinarily it is purer now than many
other candies. Hawthorne, in The
House of the Seven Cables describ.
Ing a small store, says. For instance,
there was a glass pickle jar filled with
fragments Of Gibraltar rock-not, in
deed, splinters of the veritable fortress.
but bits Of delectahle cnndy., Other
writer's Of even earlier date than that
speak of Gibraltar rock. 1t appears.
however, that the Gibraltar was finally
dropped. and it became known as rock
candy. have a price list issued in
1913 to the candy trade in which CT.
braltar rock is the name given, though
after that it is quoted as rock candy
Throughout England it is known as
Gibraltar almost exclusively outside of
the large cities. In the latter, as here,
the Gibraltar is dropped. and it is
called rock candy"
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A pisma, Failure.

A young jobbing firm in New York
overbought for the fall trade. Their
heaviest mistake had been in a line of
overcoats. which. it looked. they would
have to carry over Il eason Efforts to
get cash for the stock were fruitless
except at ruinous rates. At last the
firm went to an old timer in the trade
for advice.
WELL" said the man of experience,
you've got a pretty good list Of Gus
toners -rEt divide the coats up into
lots of thirteen each. Send a batch
npiece to some Of your sharpest u.s.
toners. but make out the bills for
twelve. They'll be so tlckled to get
one coat for nothing that they'll take
'em ALL"
The scheme had been tried before
the men met again. The old timer
waited for his praise.
"Well, didn't they keep the coats?"
he asked.
Yes returned the jobber sadly.
"One each-the n that wasn't billed
New York Times.
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If you are soon to move. search
out some of the Surplus things" and
use a "for sale" ad.
County Seat Fight Renewed.


Cha;les Mix county three years ago
WAS torn clear up the back along the
"Squaw central'' by the fight on this
part of Wagner. Geddes and Platte
eacn for themselves and against the
Others to secure the county seat
which yet fingered in the Missouri
bills, where 1T was located at
Wheeler before the county could
boast of a railroad. The fight went
into the courts before the election
date. and none of them even secured
a vote on account OF their family
row. TIE law prohibited another
contest for four years, but next wear
again opens the way, and the three
towns are at it again, each attempt
ing to secure the secure the required
60 per cent Of the voters of the coun-
try to give them the opportunity to
attempt to west the honor from
Wheeler. Platte got into the game
first In the other contest and..appar-
emily had enough names town, but
before the petition got to the board
of commissioners so many names had
been withdrawn that they rejected
the petition. The law was
invoked, and all were left out.
Whether either town can muster
enough strength next year to ssskin''
the other two is to be developed at
an early date from the active cam
paien which is already waged.
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III, Iianeina JUDGE.

When Lord Norbury, 1.-The hanging
Judge" as he was called in Ireland,
was sentencing Il man to death for
stealing Il watch, he said:
my good fellow, you made a grasp
at time and caught eternity"
Nothing seemed to please Lord Nor
bury more than the continual uproar in
court, created by his puns.
"What is your occupation, my honest
man?" he asked a witness.
"Please, your lordship, I keep
racket court"
$50 do L." said the Judge.
When Lord Norbury was being
buried, the grave was so deep that the
ropes by which the undertaken was let
ting down the coffin didn't reach to the
bottom. The coffin Was left hanging
midway while somebody went for new
ropes.
"Aye," cried one in the crowd, "give
him rope enough; don't stint him. He
was the boy that never grudged rope
to a poor body
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The Methodist SUNDAY scnool

The Methodist SUNDAY scnool
entertainment was something out OF
the ordinary manner in celebrating
the Christmas occasion. Instead Of
a Christmas tree and a Santa Claus
and the distribution Of any presents.
a cantata was presented, which
occupied she entire evening. 1t was
entitled "The Children Of Bethlem"
and the story told was taken from
the bible and embraced portions Of
the life OF Christ. There were a
great many musical numbers and
there were strong dramatic enc
given between the participants Of
the cantata. The cantata was pre-
sented under the direction of G. d.
Hardy and S. r. Norris. There was
a very large audience in attendance
and the cantata was well received.
The costumes worn by the particle
pants were in harmony with the
time of the incidents portrayed.
The Salvation Army people held
Christmas exercises In their room at
the city hall Tuesday evening and
brought cheer and comfort to the
hearts Of many by the nature of
their exercises and the gifts which
were bestowed.
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CHRISTMAS IN CHURCHES.
Exercises We're Held in Several of
the Churches on Christmas Day
That Were Pleasing.

1t vas a happy aud d lighted lot
of people who assembled In the new
Catholic church Christmas morning
to participate in the first services
that were held ir the edifce. Three
Masses were held during the morning
hours, the first at 5, the second at
8 and at 1890 O'Clock High Mass was
observed by Father Shea, and which
was attended by a large congregation.
Father Shea delivered a very inter-
esting sermon on "The Nativity.n
and the choir Of twenty voices,
under the objection OF Miss Goody-
koontz, rendered a beautiful musical
program.
Services we're held at the Episcopal
church IN the morning at which
Rev y W. Bell delivered a brief
address on the character a%nd-occasion
OF Christmas day, and Miss Clara
Christensen sang a solo.
At the German Evangelical church.
on First Avenue east, the presiding
elder from LeMars was present and
conducted the services, delivering q
very interesting sermon.
Plof. Neyier, Of the Sioux Falls
Lutheran college. conducted services
at the Lutheran church on the south
side Christmas morning. many
taklng advantage Of the opportunity
to hear the splendid sermon deli vered
by the professor.
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ADVERTISING FOR BIDS
Architect Taylor Wants
Bids on Constructing the
Mitchell Federal Building.

Postmaster Wells received the
authority from Supervising Architect
Taylor, of Washington, ID. G., to
advertise for bids for the coustruc-
tlon of the federal building to be
erected in this city. The advertise.
ment is published elsewhere in The
Capital today. Mr.. Wells will
receive the drawings and specification
in a few days and will have six sets
of them for the use:.of contractors
who may desire to put in a bid.
The bids are to be filed with the
supervising architect at Washington,
at which place they will be opened
on Jan. %, 1908.
This commences to look like Mitch
ell's building will be in curse OF
construction within four months.
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Eaual to the Occasion.

Some time ego a friend of mine got
a curious present from a sea captain.
1t was a fine specimen of the bird
which sailors call the laughing jack.
ass" and he was a little proud Of 1t.
AS he was carrying it home he met a
brawny Irish navy. who stopped and
asked him:
"Phwat kind of a burrd is that,
sorr?"
That's a hughiug iackass," explain.
ed my friend geniaily.
The 1rishman. thinking he was be.
ing made fun OF. was equal to the oc-
casion and responded. with a twinkle
In the eye:
"lt's not yersi1s; it's the burrd OF
name, sorr."-Lontlon Answers.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-12-27
Want a Through Train.

The Sioux Falls Forum is WORRYING
because it alleges Sioux Falls has no
through connection with the Black
Hills country, referring to the fact.
that the North Western road runs it's
train to Huron, where u must; sion
over night and continue the journey
the next day. II the Forum man
would look over some other time
tables bf railroads in this state he
might ascertain that Sioux Falls
people can have direct connection
with the Black Hills country, if they
are not averse to riding on the Mil.
waukee road. A Sioux Falls citizen
can take the Milwaukee passenger at
the queen city at noon, reach Mitch
ell at 3:45.. and continue on- Bis
journey to Rapid City. arriving
there the next morning. 81 Is also
accommodated with "a commodio1s
sleeping a to make bis Journey Id.
He can get to Rapid City through
Mitchell while he is waiting at
Huron for another train to carry him
on to Pierre.
1t Sioux Falls people want TO go
out to Rapid City. it would be a
good idea for them to look up this
new route. and they will thus save
money aud time by coming around
Nitchell's way. For RAILROAD accom-
modations and connections Mitchell
can offer some pretty good bargains.
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Bids for County Physician.

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bios will be received at the office of
county auditor of Dawson county,
s. D.. up to Jan. Ii, 1908, for the
appointment of physician for the year
1908.
: Bids must include all medicine,
medical attendance and surgical
operations for County POOR for the
year 1908. Board reserves the right
10 reject any and all bids.
II. Ii. Anderson,
County Auditor.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-12-27
With Iharks.

John Budd was a most sedate. pre-
else and altogether exemplary young
man. When he wooed and won Susan
Smiley, the belle of the village. every
body rejoiced at Johns good fortune.
However, lie bore his triumph with
modesty and decorum until the day of
the wedding. Then for one awful mo-
ment his air of aplomb failed him.
When the officiating clergyman asked,
will you, John, take this woman to
be thy welded wife?" John respond
ed blushingly. Eyes, please."-Harper's
Weekly.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-12-27

1t tones and vitalizes the entire
system; makes life worth living, no
matter what your station. HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain lea is the surest
preventative known against diseases.
CSC, Tea or Tables. Scallin Bros.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-12-27
Card Of Thanks.

To the friends and neighbors who
"ere so kind aud sympathetic during
tie sickness and death of wife and
mother, we desire to extend cur sin
cere thanks. George Sholes,
w. G. Sboles,
C. r. Sholes.