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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
SENATORS CONFER.
Informal Meeting Regarding the Pre-
paration Of Bills.
Madison. Jan 1G

Madison, Jan 1G
An informal conference was held
IN the senate chamber after the morn
Ing session yesterday, Senator White
head making the suggestion for 1t
and requesting that the lawyers Of the
upper house and all others interested
attend The purpose was to con
slider the matter of the preparation
Of bills and also the rules governing
their course. 1t was agreed to
strengthen the legislative reference
bureau to adequately meet every de
mand that may be made upon it dur
Ing the session, to recommend an an
nual appropriation Of Sl4,500 for its
maintenance $4,000 Of which, how
ever must so TO meet a deficit due to
rent session. The additional appro-
priation everything considered,
amounts to something like $4,000
which the bureau will receive a year
henceforth For the session it will
employ force Of about % persons,
and seven regularly -Four lawyers
viii find occupation there Miss Anna
Schalfner, who Is regularly i'm the
service, and who came to Madison
from the law school of the Uniyer.
sty Of Iowa; eX.nssemblyman M. S.
Dudgeon, u. w. Lucas and William
Ryan, all Of the Madison bar Every
scion with the germ of q notion which
he may wish to have put in bill form
Is privileged to invoke the capabiN-
ties OF the bureau and have the work
performed gratuitously Stenograph-
ers VIII be there for all needs as well
as legal talent. The chief labors OF
the Informal meeting had to do with
these matters though n considerable
range to the talk occurred.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
THEN AND NOW.

way back In the AOs sawmills
that cut logs into boards were far
different from those Of the present
day says the Amigo News Item,
and the mill that cut five or six
thousand feet of lumber a day was n
big thing The mills at that early
date were run entirely by water
power and have long since been dis
cardcd except in rare instances
Trimmers and edgcrs were unknown
but the boards would be placed on
the top log that was being cut and
the edges taken off one Of those
old mills would be curiosity at this
tine, Circular gang and band saws
nave taken their place and cut as
lmth In one day as the old fashioned
nj ! could cut in month Steam and
electricity are now employed instead
.ol the big water wheel, but while
hlty or sixty years ago good lumber
could he purchased at from $500 To
5000 per thousand feet, the price
has ste1dily advanced till, In some
cases, for good clear lumber We have
to pay az high rs $50 to 500 The pine
IN this section has all been cut off but
there are large quantities of hemlocly
and hardware awaiting the woods.
man axe"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
BLAME ROADS
FOR EVERY Ill

Minneapolis, Jan, l6--"Ths Coun.
try Ia facing IN u commercial sens,
disease one might call slow paraDy.
of the Great Northern railroad, ut the
opening session of the Northwestern
Lumbermen's association yesterday
The railroads today are blamed
for everything, practically, that is
wrong" he added, THE Great
Northern is blamed | am blamed
because 1t is intimated that | own the
Great Northern. The truth Is that /
own less than seven per cent, of the
stock of the Great Northern There
are $500 shareholders, LOO of whom
are women. When we ask our share
holders TO subscribe soc. 900. 0OO more
stock to our already large capital IN
order that we may build more track.
ago TO carry the business of the west
to the east, we are made defendant in
n suit brought by the state of Minnie.
sofa"
Defending the railroads against at.
taclls upon them, he cited some things
they had done. He called attention
to the enormous increase In the lum-
Der trade Of the Pacific coast, and
declared that when the mmbcrmen
there said they could afford to ship
lumber east at a 65.cent rate his
company made Il 80 cents and never
increased It, Lumber that was then
selling at 50 now sells at $22. About
rs cars per week were then shipped
east, whereas now. could facilities he
provided, it would be 500 cars per
day
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17

approached the subject from the
standpoint OF blood-relationship in
animals, and has hit upon the method
Of chemically Analysing the blood Of
nearly related species. To most of
US blood relationship implies a CON
nection of some kind with a common
sock. The degree of that relation
snip is determined by the compare
tive remoteness from a parent To
the scientist this is a hopelessly un-
certain way of fixing consanguinity
How does that prove that you are the
blood relative of a prehistoric chin
panzee who chartered in the Jungle
ages ago? 1t may be that you are
overdesirous of tracing your origin
back so far. The scientist is.
What could be simpler in quest of
this kind than to analyze the blood of
man and of the monkey? That is the
plan which DR.. Nuttall has hit upon
and carried out with conspicuous
success, Blood relationship is re-
duced to a matter of mere chemistry.
1t seems that mills, bacterial emul-
sions, alien blood, or the like, injected
into the veins have the effect Of very
peculiarly modifying the blood. If
you were to lance a rabbit whose
blood has been acted upon by milk,
for example, and mingle a little Of
his blood with mill a precipitate
would be formed But if you were
to mix that same rabbits blood with
any other liquid, you would obtain no
precipitate at all. Only blood af-
fected by milk will form a precipitate
with milk. If your rabbit had been
inoculated with the blood of a dog,
a precipitate would have been formed
only with dogs blood
The same method applied to man
and the monkey has completely yeri-
fed Darwin's disquieting theory of
the descent Of man DR.. Nuttall has
proved that of all the apes the
chimpanZee in the zoo can claim the
closest blood relationship with man,
and our family tree must henceforth
begin with him This is not to be
regarded as scientific moonshine.
Actual experiments, not one but
many have demonstrated in this very
practical way the blood relationship
of cIosely-related species. Sixteen
thousand tests were made with the
blood of 900 animals, number Ger
tainly sufficient to remove any doubts
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the ~ CT
signature Of L&sxNZNE%S1/
Raise for Enqineers,

Chicago, Jan. ia final settle
ment was reached here yesterday be
tween committees representing rail
way managers and locomotive en-
gineers, and an agreement was en-
tered into which Includes all the
roads west of Fort William, Canada,
st. Paul, Chicago. St Louis, and
New Orleans to the Pacific coast and
south to the Mexican border. The
new schedule goes into effect Febru
airy ! and will affect $4,000 engineers,
who get their wages raised % to 40
cents n day.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
lreland'S Literature

one of The most melancholy sights
In ireland, the outward and visible
signs of the waste places of the soul
within, is to look at the shop win
dows in n country town, where books
are sold along with the newspapers
Such books! GreenAtrcked song
books, pirate stories in vivid covers
detective tales, all for the sum OF
one penny, novelties, yellow with
age, and looking like a slice of BARN
brack, SO speckled are they with
dead flies, This is the way in which
the immortal spirit of man is nour
tshed in lreland-Dublin Irish Home
stead
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
TELLING AN OYSTERS AGE.

These salt oysters are very good.
said the broker.
They ought to be-" said the open
er, They are fresh, and just the
right age, Four years.
Go ON, You can tell an oysters
age"
"Of course l can, It's easy, Look
at these regular layers, one overlap
ping the other, ON the shell. All oys.
ters have these layers--we call them
shots-and each shot means year
An oysters age is easier TO tell than
horses"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17

political life, was shot and killed in
the street here yesterday by Miss
Elizabeth Schulz, who then shot ner-
self Miss Schulz had been a nurse
of Herr Stiller's wife, who died some
time ago, and desired him to marry
her Stiller repealed the woman and
she killed him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
PLAN TO GUST POWERS.
Directors Of Freeport Club After
League President.

La Crosse, Wis, Jan. 16.-The d.
rentors of the Freeport club of the
Wisconsin state league will endeavor
to Dust President John T. Powers
and elect James Hayes at the annual
meeting in Eau Claire, Jan. IT, They
claim that Powers Is unfair.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
GA - Tt or a.
Bears !. til. rh' Kind |I You !!..! Always B''''
Signature si &>zHHN1Z1I
Elkins Gets a Third Term.

Charleston, w. Va. Jan. 10
stephen b. Elkins received the repub,
lican caucus nomination for his third
successive term as senator. Twenty
three of the twenty-four republican
senators, and 81 of the 60 delegates
participated. Mr.. Elkins' nomination
is equivalent to election.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
GERMAN BANKER KILLED
BY A WOMAN ScoRNED

Lubbock Germany Jan. l6-Ernst
Stiller, manager of the local Bank OF
Commerce ex-member OF the reich.
stag and prominent in fnancial ano
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
Crane Reelected Senator.

Boston Jan. i6,-The legislature
yesterday reelected w. MurTy Crane
as United States senator. He was
appointed senator on the death OF
George + Hoar,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17

Marinette, Wis. Jan. l6.--Charles
Nelson received fatal injuries in the
mill yard OF the n. Ludington com
pany, falling 20 feet from a trestle on
the ice.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
BLOOD RELATIONSHIP.

Waldemar h. Kaempffert in the
Booldovers MagaEine,--A leading
scientist who has devoted himself
TO this problem of the origin of
species is DR.. George Nuttall. He has
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
Mineral Point 0odgeIlle Stage ua

Morris Proctor, Proprietor.
Stage runs daily, except sunday, IsavsA
Mineral Poant at Z AS a. N, and DodgsvS
between l and D. N.
oonnscts 81 DodgevilIs vita train q
q N, ". BY. for Madison, MilvAukse, seA
aud At Mineral Point with 4; 20 train q
O. ID. 81. Paul R'y. for Plsttevilie, nAss
haEtoB, shullshurg, Monroe ard Ianesvflk
OAlAs left At the boteA N.MMxai Pmnna -
see&kss prompt s1ts tlosA
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
ORGANIZATION OF LEGISLATURE
FINALLY COMPLETED.
HOLD FAST TO MERIT RULE
Employees to BE Chosen With Faith
full Regard to Fitness as Shown
in Examinations and Also in De.
sire to Distribute Fairly Geo.
graphically.
Madison, Jan. i6.


The grind of legislation begins this
morning With the appointment Of
the assembly committee last night,
organization of the legislature was
completed 70 be sure, there remains
the incident Of formal appointment
OF employees, but the work Of the civil
service commission has resulted in
an abundance of available men for
these places, and 1t is said that the
appointments will be made from the
top of each list Of eligibles unless
geographical pressure determines
otherwise. 1t Is found that Madison
is exceedingly numerous, as usual,
and the committees and appointing
officers have striven TO fairly distrib
ute the positions among eligibles
from all over the state and at the
same time abide carefully by the rule
OF appointment by merit established
under the civil service law
Brief Night Sessions.
Both houses OF the legislature held
brief sessions last night, the assem-
bly, receiving a bunch Of bills and hear.
ing the announcement of the commit.
tees as made mp by Speaker EIiern.
The senate did nothing of Importance
Among the bills introduced in the as.
sombly were the following:
10 M. Ignppnrt II,1lIuu ,p,nInv-
ers liable for injuries of employees nj
though caused by carelossness Of AN
other employees.
Bnncroft--Liniting purchase Of text
books by school board to the use of
INDECENT pupils.
Bancroft-'ro repeal mortgage tax.
alton law.
Bancrolt-To appropriate $1,000 for
suitable dedication of the Wisconsin
monument Mt Andorsonville, Georgia
This monument, erected at cost Of
$4,000 Is nearly completed, and It Is
desired to follow the example Of other
states and have celebration ut the
time of formal dedication.
Another TWo-Cent Fare Bill
T. Peterson, Jr,--l4mlting passen-
ger fare to three cents a mile on
lines Of $4,000 per mile per year or
more gross receipts
Sorenson-Ra Raising salary of clerk
Of municipal court for Dane county
from $500 90 81 600 The clerk IL now
paid In part by Judge Donovan
McGregor-- Appropriating $500 for
the purchase of books for the library
IN The ONCE of the state suporntend.
ent of public instruction.
Perry increasing pay of jurors in
Justice courts from 80 cents to 81 u
day.
Perry Changing distribution Of
session laws so that each court com.
missioner will get a copy.
Both houses meet this morning at
10 o'clock
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
VETERINARY
r. w. PHILIP,
BARRIERS
GEORGE .. MASTEN.
BARBER sHol

CENTRAL BARBER SHOP.
All work done in the latest and most i'm.
proved mar ner Opposite the First Ma tonsl !
Bank. GEO. d. MAsTEs, Pro. .ietor.
Fine BATH ROOMS in connection.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-01-17
Mortgage Taxation.

Mn Ties presented II bill restoring
the old law for the taxation of mort
cages and Mr.. Durley offered one Of a
like tenor. Another measure by Mr..
Ties, makes 1t a Jail oflense for auto
lists to fail to stop upon the raising #
a warning hand by the driver OF Il
horse
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-25
FIVE THOUSAND
FOR SCALP

Carried I'm and out OF court on a
stretcher, so weak that she could
hardly stand the ordeal. Amelia
Kirwan, Il year old girl, recovered
a judgment of $1,000 against the
American Lithographic Company in
Justice Dugros part of the Supreme
Court yesterday for injuries receiv-
ed on June 10, 1906.
The girl was employed by the de-
PENDANTS in stitching pamphlets, and
she was taking the stitched pamph-
lets off the table when some OF them
fell under the table. She stopped
to pick them up, and when her hair
was caught in a shaft she was COM
pletely scalped.
She has been in Bellevue ever
since, and the case was put on the
preferred calendar because It was
feared she might die-New York
Tribune
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-25
WONDERS OF NEW
YORK BY NIGHT

By whatever route you reach or
leave Manhattan island I'm the even
ing, the river lights are beautiful.
On the North river the spectacle
varies according to the hour and the
season, for the downtown lights in
Manhattan are more numerous when
the days are short and the tenants
Of the great Office buildings have to
light up to finish their days work
Across from the lower Jersey fer
ries late in the afternoon of win
ter day glow and sparkle the great
company OF tall shafts grouped
against the sky each one pierced to
the top with regular rows OF shin
ing windows A memorable sight
they make, those shafts and huge
blocks Of cleaning holes reaching
far above their neighbors that come
between them and the river. There
1 Is much I'm that spectacle TO recon-
pense a tired man for being a com
muter, and nowhere else on earth IS
| there the Ike Of II.
And besides the tall shafts and the
intervening lower lights. and the
glow OF the streets that run 10 the
river and border &C., there are all the
river lights the ferryboats, with
their long rows OF bright windows.
lhurrying on their various course: the
Sound steamers going out: other
steamers coming In; all manner OF
lights more sober on all manner Of
shipping. the street glare and the
ferry-house and wharf lights ashore.
and higher up, here and there, the
obtrusive and commercial, but none
the less radiant, advertising signs.
The downtown office building
lights 90 out early-most Of them
but mp the river some OF the tall
uptown hotels continue, all the even
ing and in spite OF curtalned win
dows, to be lighthouses
On the East river. besides the city
lights and the river lights, are the
high. curving bridges. very striking
and beautiful, with their unobstruct-
ed outlines marked by the glow OF
the electric bulbs There IS poetry
In these river lights. bordered and
framed by the dark shining water
and reflected in it.--Harper's Maga-
zine.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-25
AROUSED FROM
2 YEARS NAP
STRANGE CASE OF 14-YEAR-OLD
LESLIE CHEWING.

Staunton, Va. Feb. 25.-A very
remarkable case has developed in the
Western State Hospital here. Mas
ter Leslie Chewning, or Spotttsyl-
vanla county, ID years old. about two
years ago fell into deep sleep and
could not be aroused. He was
brought to the hospital. He would
once In "A great while revive enough
to take little food. but at other
times he had to be fed artlflclany.
Three weeks ago he awoke and his
mind seemed to be normal When
on the few occasions he aroused SUI
1ciently to take food, he knew no
one at the hospital, but when he
awoke he could recall the names OF
every tenant in his ward.
When he was taken home yester-
day he had forgotten how to walk,
and his mother, Mrs. A. G. Chewn-
Ing, had to assist him to the train.
He is learning how to walk again.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-25
THEY SAY
ANTI VICE SOCIETY WERE TO
HAVE HAD STANFORD
WHITES DEN RAIDED.


New York, Feb. 25.-The state.
ment was made by one OF Thaw's
attorneys that had Stanfora White
lived just one night longer than he
did. his career as a high life deyotee
would have been brought to a dis
graceful close by a raid on one of
his studios by the police. If necessary
the defense is prepared to prove
this on the witness stand in Thaw's
trial Thaw's bullet saved Whites
witnessing his own exposure to the
world, for the man he was White,
this attorney declared, had planned
to give another OF his famous din
ners in the studio the night OF June
twentieth. This fact had been made
known to one OF the anti-vice So
cieties and through this society the
police had been enlisted and the
den of the rich ARCHITECT would havt
been raided
The Countess of Yarmouth, sister
of Thaw, 1t was reported today, has
eliminated herself entirely from
the case. The disagreeable notorlety
Of the case is said to have dlsgusted
her. She has not appeared I'm court
since Justice Fitzgerald suggested
that ladies retire, nor has she visited
the Tombs, so far as is known.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-25
TREMENDOUS
CAR ORDERS

Pittsburg companies now have or
ders for steel cars amounting to
s15o.000.0O0. and inquiries indicate
orders amounting to $4,000, 900
to $S0.0OO,O00 more. The Standard
Company, which has 5000 men at
work in its Butler plant. Is building
"a sS,000.00O car works at Hama
mond, Indn to care for orders which
threaten to overwhelm 1t. 1t al
ready has orders for $4,000 cars.
while the Pressed Steel Car Com
pany has orders ahead for 10000
cars, the American Car & Foundry
Co. has orders for 10000 cars. and
the Camria Steel Company has or
ders ahead for 10000 cars. Prac-
tically every car company is booked
ahead for more than a year. and
many of them are building extern
sions. The railroads have orders out
for more than 10000 cars, and are
anxious to buy thousands more II
they could be assured OF delivery
within the next twelve months.
In the matter OF steel orders these
record figures are given: "The Car
negie Steel Company has absolute
specifications against 100000 tons of
plates, 100000 tons OF merchant
mill products, 10000 tons OF struc-
tural material. 100000 tons OF axle
products and crude steel. The Unit
ed States Steel Corporation in it's re-
port shows n record tonnage OF un-
hlled BUSINESS. .4S9,71S tons-on
Dec. 81. The merchant furnaces have
on an average. sold their products
well through the third quarter. The
Bessemer Pig Iiron Association re-
PORTS that so per cent, OF It's 1907
production IL under contract. Prices
are firm all along the line. In some
lines, notably black sheets and plates
premiums are paid for prompt de-
livery Tin plate mills are still book
Ing large orders for third quarter de-
livery at 10 cents a box over current
quotations."
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-25
COUNTRY LAWYERS
In NEW YORK

1t is interesting TO observe that a
New York newspaper in an attempt
to compliment our own superb Del
phin Michael Delmas characterizes
his conduct OF the Thaw case as the
brilliant success of country law
yer" The humor of this charac-
terization is only equaled by its un-
conscious betrayal of that fine metro
politan arrogance which is the GER
tain mark of the New York spirit
No matter where you CO." says Nat
Goodwin in one Of his plays, when
you get across North river you're
camping OUT" This represents very
accurately the view OF the average
New York man toward the rest Of
the country.-San Francisco ArgO-
naut
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-25
PROGRAM
ELkS ENTERTAINMENT To-
MORROW NIGHT.

Elks High Glass Vaudeville. un-
der the personal direction of Prof.
r. Blinn owen. Stage under the
direction OF S. H. Jolliffe.
Program Subject to Change.
PART |.
Overture. Selection from Red
Mill by Victor Herbert.
Choruses.--(D Miller's Wooing--
Tanning. CD Spring Song-Pensu-
"a. CD Country Dance-De Koven.
Singers, Misses Mayme Malone. Irene
Cole. Vic. Cole. Kate Beckett. An
ME Ferris, Mary Douthat. Margaret
Hicks. Lula Cash. Nancy Brown.
Messrs. Crawford. Neel, Easley. Sill
Ger, Henley
2 Reading by Mrs. II. C. LATER
ty.-How He Saved st. Michael.
3. Miss Genevieve Prince in her
neat Song and Dance.
Ye Baser Quartet. Misses Malone.
Cash, Hicks, and Bown.
4. Herr Camp in his original skit
with mandolin.
8. John-The Jolly Boys-sam
Blackface Song and dances.
Miss Winnie Royal Song selec-
tions.
6. The Windy Boys as the Two
Dagoes. zilis and Evans.
Intermission OF ten minutas
PART II.
J. Excerpts from Wonderland
Opera. The Nature Class"
Cast
Teacher, Miss Mayme Malone.
Pupils, Francis Godbey, Lille
McCray, Hazel Shumate, Lillian
Nichols, Genevieve Prince, Beula
Farris, and a very late and crazy
pupil, Mr.. Jess Easley
Time-Now.
Place, In the woods of any old
place.
2. The Skatorial Kings, Ray
Prince e. Tanner-Moffat, in fancy
trick and accrobatic Skating.
9. Miss Lillian Saunders in Op-
cratic numbers.
Pictures.-These Films were fur
nished and operated by Mr.. Burt
Baxter of the Family Theatre.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-25
TO PREVENT
RAILWAY WRECKS

Richmond, Va, Feb. 25.-A new
system Of signals to prevent head
on and rear-end collisions, open
switch, open drawbridge, broken
train and landslide accidents, was
tested today on the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac rail-
way
The system was shown by the
Richmond Signal Company, repre-
sented by George w. Lancaster The
signals are worked automatically and
electrically by the movement OF
trains and It IS said TO be the only
single-track block system ever at
tempted In America that will give
three positions from one mast. There
IS no human mind connected with
the operation OF the signals, and II
is claimed that no accident Of any
Kind can possibly happen n the sin
nails arc regarded by the engineers.
In The case OF probable collision
10 takes two trains to operate the
systom whereas I'm the case OF ac-
cidents. ono train will operate.