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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
BAD DOCTORS IN BIG MAJORITY,
State Examiner Says Three-Fourths
of Them Are Incompetent.

of Them Are Incompetent.
Ihree-fourths of the doctors graduated
III America every year are incompetent,
according to DR.. Chester Mayer, member
of the State Board of Examiners of Ken
lucky, who made the statement at a
meeting of the Council on Medical Edu-
cation of the American Medical Associa-
ton at the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago.
The charges are backed by statistics from
twenty-five States. DR.. w. T. Means an
officer in the Association of American
Medical Colleges, made a plea for more
rigid examination methods. There are
on an average 1000 doctors graduated
every year by the medical colleges of
the country, and about three-fourths of
these are utterly incompetent and should
never be permitted to practice medicine"
said DR.. Mayer. Certain medical col
leges are lacking in proper equipment,
the instructors are wanting in the neces-
sary ability for their task and their ex
animation methods are useless" DR..
Means had a remedial measure to sug-
geSt. He proposed that instead of one
examination at the end of the students
course the State board should be author
lied to hold primal examination at the
end of the second year of the curriculum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
SCHOOL GARDENS A SUCCESS.
Philadelphia Has $500 Little
Farmers at Work in Them.


The coming of pleasant weather has
put 1880 Philadelphia childsn into the
school gardens working with rake and
hoe to help nature DO her part in the
production of crops. Among Philadel-
phIa $ educational activities its municipal
school gardens are unique No other CITY
has worked out the problem Of supple
mentlng school room work with nature
Study so successfully or to such an extent.
The ten gardens conducted in different
parts of the city by the Board of Edu-
cation for public school children are con
sidcred of such economic and civic i'm
portance that the board this year closed
its summer schools in order to devote
more time and money to maintenance of
the gardens, and the encouragement of
outdoor exercise in the Fairgrounds con-
nected with them.
Scientific gardening is taught in these
outdoor schools. Punctuality is insisted
on. The garden of the sluggard is taken
away and put in charge of an embryo
farmer who keeps down the weeds and
pays the price of eternal vigilance for
his crops.
Each child who gets a plot must
register. He or she is required to keep
a record card noting the day of planting
and the results. so that at the end of the
season the principals can ascertain how
productive the garden has BEEN Each
one knows how many cabbage. bundles of
beets, heads of lettuce, spinach. tomatoes
and turnips have been grown in each
truck patch.
The garden teachers position is no
sinecure. She has TO be an expert farm
er as well as good disciplinarian. She
has to combine work and play methods
and must be able TO manage a hand plow
as well as an obstreperous child. She
must handle her rake and hoe with equal
dexterity, be able to lay off and dig
paths. discern plant diseases, know how
to exterminate pests and be an all-around
''handy man. as we'll as a good teacher
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Measuriug Railroad Wufpr,

The Sundberg committee has reported
to the Minnesota Senate that railway
property in that State has a real value
of $215,000,000, or about $4,000 a mile.
But this property is capitalized at $780,
100000, or an average of $4,000 mile.
The net earnings last year on the com
mittee's valuation averaged is per cent.
In making their estimate, the committee
considered the origina! cost of construc-
ton cost of equipment and all improve
ments. expense of operating under exist
inc rotpg etc
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
GATES QUITS MARKET.
Americas Most Spectacular PIunger
Retires from Wall Street


John ". Gates, Americas most spec
tacular financial plunger, has resolved
TO plunge no more He has gone out
Of business. Wall street says John W.
Gates is down and out" that he has
lost his nerve" and is fleeing from the
scene of his disaster. Gates says he
hasn't time to discuss funny dreams"
His son, Charley" says that the head
OF the house is just going to France for
year Or so for a good time, and that
he will return. A Chicago partner de
clares that all the broke" stories are
plain rot" that the old man got
cold feet and quit when the stack in
front Of him was high enough''-using
the vernacular that Mr.. Gates uses
when he used TO bet a million"
There is one fact in the conflicting
reports concerning the multi-millionaire
Spectator. He has quit business. Wall
street knows that fact, for the formal
notice of the dissolution of the firm of
Charles G. Gates & Co. was given out.
Admittedly also the Gates, father and
son, are going abroad for year. Wall
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

1t is better to learn to swim than to
depend on life preservers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Must Hang for Shooting Girl.

John Hamlin, who has been on trial
in Grand Island, Neb.. for several days
for the murder of Rachel Engle, has
been found guilty of murder in the first
degree, with punishment fixed at hanging.
Miss Engle was 13 years old, and Ham
lin wanted to accompany her to car
nival. She resisted his attentions and he
shot her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Strike of Ships Officers,

The American Association of Masters.
Mates and Pilots has declared general
strike of the first second and third Off
GERS on all coastwise vessels sailing from
New York to go into effect May 1. to
enforce their demands for an advance in
wages to $780, $50 and $50, respectively.
This strike took the form of individual
designations as the law requires them to
give notice of intention to quit work.
Later the strike was called off in the case
of the Brunswick and Bull lines, which
agreed to pay the desired wages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Navy Uniform Not Immune.

Judge Sweetland, in the Superior Court
at Providence, K. l., has decided that
Chief Yeoman Buenzle, who was barred
from a Newport amusement hall because
he wore the uniform of the United States
navy, can recover at law only the price
OF his admission. The judge holds that
proprietors of such places may admit or
exclude whom they choose, and that the
man in naval uniform has no special
rights. This is the case in which Presi-
dent Roosevelt and naval officers took a
great interest. subscribing to the legal
expenses of the prosecution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

Sir Alexander Swettenham retired
from the post of governor of Jamaica
Friday. He has gone to his residence in
the hills, where he will stay until he
leaves the island Colonial Secretary
Bourne has been installed as acting gov
ernor pending the arrival of Sydney Oil
vier, the hew governor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

After Falling I'm Vat of Fluid He Is
Relieved at Hospital.

While at work over a tub of boiling
icorice in Newark, \. j., John Enjeck,
aged IS years, tainted and fell partly
into the huge caldron. He was lifted
out terribly burned and unconscious. His
fellow workmen held Enjeck under a
stream of cold water, thinking they could
wash off the sticky, scalding fluid. But
the water only, served to harden the leo
rice, so that it literally incased the suf-
fering man in shell. At the hospital
a chemical solution was used to dissolve
the licorice. 1t was said the young man
might recover
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
FARMS GO on LOTTERY PLAN.
Government VIII open 10000 Acres
10 Settlement i'm Montana

Government VIII Open 3d. Acres
10 Settlement in Montana.
The government has definitely decided
to proceed with the Huntler project of
opening 10000 acres Of government land
for settlement near Billings. Mont, by
lottery or the drawing system about July
!. This will be the first government land
ever thrown open for settlement where
water for irrigation is Immediately avail
able. The land will all be within fifteen
miles Of the $1O00,OO0 sugar beet factory
at Billings Township sites will be es-
tablishcd and the land within two miles
of the towns will be allotted in forty
acre tracts and more than two miles will
be allotted in eighty-acre tracts. The
expense to the man drawing will be about
$31 an acre.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

The State Board of Health has discov-
cred bad outbreak of smallpox in the
country just north of Piqua, Ohio, and
DIR. Kitzmiller of Piqua as an inspector
for the State board has been placed in
charge of the necessary regulations. The
epidemic has prevailed unrecognized for
six weeks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
O'shea Case Not Settled.

times and once convicted on a charge of
killing his wife, Amy IIogenson O'Shea,
is little nearer settlement of his case
than he was when the crime was COM
mitted, five years ago. The third jury
which has heard the ISSUES disagreed in
Chicago and was discharged by Judge
RinrknpN
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Pray for Cures mt Ohio shrine.

Hundreds of afflicted persons. many of
them crippled, scores of them blind and
others almost helpless from paralysis and
other diseases prayed for curing before
the holy relic in the Church of Our Lady
of the Consolation in Carey, Ohio. This
is the annual pilgrimage of the afflicted
from all over the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Forty Injured in Fire.

Patrons and employees of the Lotus
Club restaurant, on the second floor of
the building 257 Wabash avenue, Chicago.
battled with each other in a terrible
struggle to escape death by fire at noon
Wednesday. Forty were injured, some
perhaps fatally. The Story & Clark
Piano Company and the restaurant were
damaged to the extent of $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Saves Corpse from Knife

On coming to Omaha from his home
at University place, a suburb of Lin
coin. a few days ago, Rev. J. @. Helm,
well known preacher, made the shock
ing discovery that the body of his son.
Arthur Helm, was in picking vat at
one of the local medical colleges. The
minister did not know that his son was
dead. he reclaimed the body.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Eight White Men Kill Nerro.

d. B. Mitchell, a Columbus travelling
man, was shot in the arm at Pittsview,
Ala. by a negro named Ebb Calhoun.
Calhoun later was shot to death by
number of white men, seven or eight
participating. The trouble was started
by Calhoun's son running against
white woman at Pittsview.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
FIND Roy THOUGHT STOLEN.
Murder Indicated by Discovery of
Body in Cleveland.

Mystery surrounding the disappearance
of 3-year-old Alexander Hoenig in Cleve-
land who, it was believed, had been kid
mapped. was cleared by the discovery of
the body of the boy in a barrel near the
home of his parents. The boy was con-
cealed beneath lot of rubbish The po-
lice believe the child was murdered. The
boy disappeared Monday night. Officers
had secured the city in a vain hunt for
the lad stimulated by the offer of a large
reward for his recovery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
CameIs Named for President.

W. w. Newell and e. S. Truesdale
of Broome County, New York, who have
been travelling in Europe and Africa and
elsewhere, were among the Presidents
visitors the other day. They told the
President that he was the best known
man in the world and that in Egypt they
found at least 10000 camels named after
hin,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Navy Steps in ut Nicaragua,

General Davis. coiored. was brutally as
saulted at Puerto Cortez April p t.y
Nicaraguan soldiers and may die. Com
mander Fullam of the United States gun
boat Marietta has ordered the arrest of
Nicaraguan officers and soldiers, and if
the man dies they will be tried for MUIR
der. Fullam has assumed charge Davis
is not an officer. His name is General.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Captain NIackHn Acquitted.

The court martial that has been trying
Capt. Edgar AIacklin of the Twenty-ffth
infantry in connection with the shootinS
up of Brownsville went into secret ses-
sion at San Antonio, Texas, and after sit
ting one hour returned a verdict Of not
guilty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Sixteen Saved at Sea.

Captain DaRochel, fourteen seamen
and a negro boy stowaway. survivors OF
the Oriente, which stranded off the Mays
Head life-saving station, on the North
Carolina coast, arrived at Norfolk Va.
having been picked up by the fishing
smack Lila B. Fernald of New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Vale Won't Indorse Stead

At the end of an address by William
T. Stead in the Yale auditorium at New
Haven. Dean Rogers declared the session
adjourned. although it was Mr.. Stead's
desire to ask the assemblage to exnress
itself on his proposed peace pilgrima ge.
The dean explained that it was a rule at
Yale never to indorse any speaker or his
ideas when presented on the free plat
form. even though they were admittedly
correct. Already Mr.. Stead has received
the approval of audiences at Harvard.
Allegheny. Tuskegee and other colleges.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Family Is Asphyxiated.

William Cross, his wife and their two
sons were found dead from inhaling
illuminating gas in their home at Jersey
City. Gas was pouring from a discon-
nected pipe in the kitchen. Cross and
his wife were about 30 years old. The
bows were and 10.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Children See Father slain.

Philip Sullivan. aged A, manager of
the Liberty house bowling alleys in Lib
crty. \. y. was shot and killed by Mi
rhacl Noeth. While romping with his
children on the lawn at his home Noeth,
who is a neghbor. shot him without
warning. No cause for the tragedy is
known
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

Captain ]. G. Hiah of the life-Saving
station at Harbor Beach. Mich, has re-
ceivcd note found incloSed in bottle
on the beach near Lexington which ex-
plains the fate of the lost fishing tug
Searchlight The note reads as follows
''SearchliSht turned turtle off Harbor
Beach; all gone down except Jack in
cork jacket. NJ. Perkins" The note is
regarded as genuine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
DISGRACE LEADS TO SUICIDE.
Discharged Soldier Takes His Life
and Wills Money to s PC A.

oHSs ~ - - -
Charging his act to the disgrace at
tending dishonorable discharge from the
United States army, which he declared
unmerited, soldier, under the assumed
name of George Strm," committed sui
eide by asphyxiation in a little room in
both street, New York. He had told his
landlady that he had been out of work
for six months, but that want had no
part in his suicide was shown by the
fact that he left bank books showing de-
posts of over 5000. This money Sturm
left by will to the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Turkey Yields az Last.

As Il result of the energetic representa-
tions of the State Department. through
Ambassador Lcishman. an impeAal trade
was issued in ConStantinople in regard
80 the American schools and other qUes-
tons long pending between the United
States and Turkey, authorizing the min
listers to take action in the matter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Paving Up walsh Debts

A syndicate Of Chicago, st. Louis and
New York capitalists is said to have
subscribed s20O00.0OO to finance the COM
pletion Of the Chicago Southern and
Southern Indiana Railway so as to con-
meet with the Chicago Terminal track
and thus assume the debts of John r.
Walsh to the Chicago clearing house, thus
putting Walsh on his feet again. Hill
interests are behind this deal into which
Walsh puts his personal fortune of ST.
100000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Big Canadian Coal Strike,

More than $4,000 coal miners were con-
cerned in the strike throughout Alberta
and British Columbia and all railroad
operations were greatly impeded for lack
of fuel. A conference of the labor leaders
and mine owners was in progress in the
presence of government officials. The
unions are part of the United Mine
Workers of America.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

court on the collision in November last
between the North German LLOYD staam-
er Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse and the
British Royal Mail line steamer Orinoco
off Cherbourg is that the accident was
due to excusable errors on both sides"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
wouIa EcIinse panama Cane,

David r. Francis at a banquet in ST.
Louis celebrating the anniversary of the
Louisiana Purchase said that John NJ.
Stevens, former chief engineer of the
Panama Canal. told him that deep water
from Kansas City and Chicago to New
Orleans means more than a bunch of
Panama Canals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Negro Pnstor in Donhle TragetS

Andrew Burbridge, prominent negro
clergyman, broke into the house of his
divorced wife in Wichita. Kan. and shot
her six times. He fled but was later
found in the country with a Self-inficted
bullet wound in the side. He will re-
cover. The woman will die.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
To Europe by Afrsbfp.

The problem of aerial navigation al
ready is solved, and soon it will be posi-
BILE to go from America to Europe in
few hours. says Alexander Graham Bell
in an interview in London
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Dream shows Buried Money.

The widow of Thomas Lewis, a Ne
braska farmer, has through a dream dis
covered a sum of money amounting to
several hundred dollars which her hus-
band had buried. A long search had
failed to reveal the money, but it was
found at once after the dream.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

As result of the late freezing weather
the wheat crop of Ohio has been consid-
erably damaged. according to the monthly
bulletin of the State board of agriculture.
The condition of wheat on May l as COM
pared with an average is "A per cent. or
thirteen points below the condition re-
ported on April /
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Conspiracy Charges Made.

The manager of the international pol
icyholders' committee has been arrested
in Albany. \. Y, and two assistants in
New York charged with conspiracy in
the recent New York Life Insurance
election.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
DIete Swift Justice TO Ne.-o

Swift justice was melted out to Edward
Gibson, a negro, who attacked Miss Doro-
thy Paris, 10 years old. of Wenonah.
\. j. He was sentenced to twelve years
Imprisonment and to pay a fine of $1,000,
the extreme penalty for the offense
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Schmitz Offers to Tell All.

Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco is
reported to have made a partial con-
fession of the charges of graft and to
have offered to tell all and resign his
Office if promised immunity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Shoots Girl and Self.

Albert Koenig, a lineman, climbed
two-story porch and secured entrance into
the room of Nettie Woods on Walnut
street. st. Louis, and shot her He then
shot himself twice. Both will die. The
two had quarreled recently.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

Her mind unbalanced because of ner-
vous trouble, Mrs. Louisa Holden shot
and killed her husband. Lee S. Holden ::
fatally shot her son, Louis 4. Williams
Is years old and then killed herself. in
Providence r. |.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Cubans Wound U. 6. Sailors

One subaltern and number of sailors
from the cruiser Tacoma were wounded
in an ARRAY with the police of Santiago.
Gov. Magoon is making a thorough in
vestigation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Big subway Prof Is.

The New York rapid transit commits
sion reports that the city has spent $685.
7S2,276 in constructing the existing sub
ways up to Dec. 81. The profits for
1906 were S3,S24,9SJ. or 10 per cent
on the cost. The board is against the sp-
GRAFTON of the subways by the city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Gates Firm DissoIyes

The Chicago brokerage firm of c.. G.
Gates & Co. has been forced to dissolve
because of losses, and John w. Gates
and his son will retire from active bust
ness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Fire Torpedoes with Waves.

Successful experiments were made at
Cartagena, Spain, in the explosion of
torpedoes at long distance by means of
the Hertzian waves system. The device
was invented by a Spaniard named Bal
Sera.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Pastor Flecs with His ward.

Rev. Jared Knode Cook, rector of the
historic and ariStocratic ST. Georges
Episcopal church of Hampstead. l.. l.,
has deserted his wife and eloped with
Miss Floretta Whaley. Il years old.
member of the graduating class of the
Hampstead high school.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
hidden Fortune Mine Sold.

The property of the Hidden Fortune
Mining Company at Deadwood. $. D..
has been sold to the Columbus Mining
Company. The consideration is said to
be S239.00O
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Dies of X-RnY Cancer

Prof. w. G. Fuchs, the Chicago expert
in X-ray, died from the malady known
as X-ray cancer, which attacked him
three years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

The widow of the late Charles t.
Yerkes has sued Wilson Miner, her sec
ond husband. for divorce, alleging that
he married her for her money, that he
ill-treated her, and that he was unfaith-
full