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The Washington times., 1907-09-06

To give without offending is an art;
TO refuse without Offending, q greater
art.-Translated for Traos-A tlantic
Tales FROM Fliegende ElatteT.
The Washington times., 1907-09-06
Bargains In Complete Sets

Were Now.
Handsome French
Dinner Set, small pink
s and & Q d, III
pieces. ...----.-..--.-.-.- $t0-po S9o-Vy
French Dinner Set
pink roses and gold Dor
der c o rations, lis
pieces ..--...........-...-. SJV.VJ sSO.VV
Haviiand Dinner Set
dainty pink and green
floral border. Several
pieces missing ............ 5000 5000
HavilaEd Dinner Set
dainty floral Q c o T a
tiOns, III pieces. 5000 $500
French Dinner Set
pink flowers and gold
several pieces missing. $3.50 $500
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
JOSEPH B.RA.NSDELLc
To Keen the Course.

1t is the working out of a system of
retaining banks that will not affect the
wealth of the Mississippi valley coun-
try and at the same time regulate to
a certainty the all the year round
channel depth of the river that pre-
sents the greatest problem in the
working out of the 14-foot channel
proposition. Of course, maintained
depth of IA feet will demand less
width in the river in the vicinity of
the bottom and will probably produce
changes in slopes requiring great
corrective work.
Mr. Cooley estimates that a % per
cent. increment to the Mississippi
flow is possible by using the entire
volume of water that can come
through the Chicago canal. He esti-
mates a like increment by the es-
adjustment of comprehensive reser-
voirs on the upper Mississippi. This
would make a 12-foot minimum chan.
mel during the period of low water
and give the waterway a depth of
from Is to 10 feet under normal con-
ditions. From the Red river to the
mouth of the Mississippi, distance
of 800 miles, the Gulf level is main
tanned. 1t is between the Red river
and the Ohio, at Cairo, that the great
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
LEARN WHAT TO EAT.
important Subject That Is Given Too
Little Attention.

In our ignorance of what the vari-
Gus tissues of the body require for do
ing their work, we crowd the system
with great mass of unnecessary food,
only an infinitesimal part of which can
possibly be of use in strengthening us
for our occupation.
There are about dozen different
Kinds of tissue cells in the body, each
one requiring special food, and those
which are especially active in our line
of work require a much larger amount
of food particularly adapted to their
use than the other tissues, which are
almost wholly inactive in our voca-
ton.
Thousands of men are forcing their
brains to do work by stimulants which
only exhaust and do not nourish, and
then they wonder that they have nerv-
Gus breakdown or paresis. Other
thousands, in their ignorance of scien-
titic feeding, force their brains to do
work every bit of which is abnormal,
because they do not have sufficient
nourishment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
NEWS OF WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST IN
THE VARIOUS TOWNS.
GIRL MISSING Is YEARS
Augusta kleist, Who Ran Away from
Home in Oshkosh, Is Sought
Through Dying Wish
Fortune Awaits Her.

Oshkosh.-A mans dying wish to
in Oshkosh and who has been es-
tranged from the family for Is years,
caused the following advertisement to
be inserted in the Chicago papers by
distant relative, Mrs. Bertha Duus,
81 Crossin@ street, Chicago
IF Miss Augusta Kleist, who left
Oshkosh, Wis, Is years ago, now 80
years of age, will call at "a Crossing
street, Chicago, she will hear some
thing to her advantage. Mrs. Bertha
Duus."
Behind the estrangement and long
absence of the woman lies story of
incompatibility. Miss Kleist, accord
ing to Mrs. Duus. was headstrong and
fond of dancing, and the restraint of
the mother was more than she could
stand. So one day, after her mother
had reprimanded her, she left her
home and has not been heard from
since.
brother, Reinhardt, a locomotive fire.
man, fell from the cab of his engine
and received injuries that resulted in
his death. A short time previously
Reinhardt had received news from
Germany that a fortune had been left
to his mother by her uncle. In his
delirium the injured man constantly
referred to this and bemoaned the
fact that his estranged sister perhaps
was struggling to exist while her
brothers and sisters had plenty.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14

An active brain worker requires a
great deal of albuminous foods, foods
which contain phosphorus-like fish,
oysters and other kinds of shell fish
and eggs. Meat is distinctly muscle
food. 1t is suitable only for those who
do physical work.
The locomotive engineer studies
fuels. He does not throw all sorts of
combustible things into his firebox,
just because they are combustible.
He finds out the best kind of fuel for
his engine, that which will give him
the greatest possible amount of COM
bustion with the least waste. He
makes profession of his business and
studies the requirements of his engine.
But most people seem to think that
they can run the most complicated ma
chinery in the world-the great hui
man engine-without any special
study. The result is that we use all
sorts of fuel without reference to
the particular work we are doing.-O.
S. Marden in Success.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
TO PUMP A GREAT SEA DRY.
Dutch Engineers Begin Work of Drain
ing the Zuyder Zee.

Little Holland, with its 100000 peo-
pie living safely behind their wave
washed dykes, is about to make new
conquest from it's old enemy, the
ocean. Already Dutch engineers have
begun the tremendous task which will
result in turning the Zuyder Zee into
1,400 square miles of dry land. Where
of old the great Dutch war fleets
gathered, where now 1000 fishermen
sink their nets, there will rise happy
villages, broad pastures, poplar-bor-
dered roads and sleepy canals-new
farms and homes for $4,000 Dutch
men.
The task to be undertaken is a ire
mendous one. It will cost nearly &c.,
100000. In return the government ex-
poets to secure annual rentals of more
than S5,000,000 from those who occupy
and till the hard won ground.
The Zuyder Zee has occupied a most
prominent place in Dutch history. On
it's shores are the ancient towns of
Medemblik, Hoorn, Harderwyck, Nor
den anil Enkhuizen, under whose walls
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
Oil Men Given Hearing.


The Wisconsin railroad commission
held a hearing on the application of
the Valvoline Oil company of Madison
for an order requiring the railroad
companies to grant lower rates on
shipments of oil in barrels and on the
matter of determining if rules and
regulations for the weighing of freight
in carload lots enforced by the rail-
roads are reasonable. The commission
also took up the matter of rates on
milk and cream on points in Wiscon-
sin. In the Valvoline company's case
the railroad representatives moved
that it be dismissed and the commits
sion gave each side few days to
file written briefs on the motion. The
question of the weighing Of freight in
carload lots was discussed by num-
Der of parties, the most important
witness being f. O. Becker, of Chi
cago, chairman of the Western Rail-
way Weighing association, who was
on the stand several hours. The rail-
roads claimed that the present sys-
tenn of weighing is equitable to all
parties. Attorney John Barnes, for
mer chairman of the railroad commits
sion, is appearing for the dairy and
cheese men in the hearing on the
rates on milk and cream.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14

maintained in that stretch engineers
declare that the seSboard will no
longer terminate at .he Mississippi
delta, but will actually stretch 1000
miles inland to the shore of Lake
Michigan.
Unreasonable good, it is confident
ly asserted by champions of the Mis-
sissippi valley ocean highway, will
come from the establishment of a
14-foot channel between Chicago and
the Gulf of Mexico. The annual value
of the internal commerce of the United
States is s22,O0O,000. This "a the
amount fixed by statisticians of the
yearly value of the international COM
merce of the world. 1t is confidently
asserted that with the 14-foot water
highway through the length of the
Mississippi valley the internal COM
merce of the United States would be
immensely increased. Hundreds of
millions of dollars worth of materials,
it is declared, now go to waste in the
great middle west because Of the ina
bility of the railway systems of the
country to transport them. The con-
gestion, it is pointed out, On the au-
thority of such experts as James J.
Hill and E. H. Hartman, is becoming
greater every year without prospect
of increasing railroad facilities to any
considerable extent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
Bed Men Take the PLEDGE.

With a plea for their own race that
they be allowed to live sober and
peaceable life, White Pigeon and John
Lewis, two Indians, have posted no
tees in all Marshfield saloons saying
that it is the desire of their little
tribe to live a sober and industrious
life in their farm near Arpin, and ii
they find anyone furnishing intoxi.
eating liquor to any of the tribe
every possible means will be used to
convict him. White Pigeon and Lewis
are the acknowledged leaders Of the
little tribe, and the notice is a com.
mand. This action is unique in the
history of Wisconsin Indians, tradi.
ton being that the red men without
exception are so fond of liquor that
it is beyond them to ask that the sale
be stopped.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
WAuPuN BOY GETS IN TROUBLE.
Dudley SomerViIe Secures Release
from Rockford and Returns.

Rockford, Ill.-Dudley Somerville
was released from the county Jail and
returned to his home in Waupun,
where his father is rector of the Epis-
copal church and held in high esteem.
With a pal, of the same name but no
relative, Somerville was given Jail
sentence or fine of 500 on the
charge of having obscene photo
graphs in their possession. The pal
drew an additional hundred for living
with a Pontiac woman without the
formality of a wedding ceremony.
Somerville was released upon the pay
ment of fine imposed. The money
was paid by Mrs. Adelaide #. King, a
close friend of the Somerville family,
who has known Dudley from child
hood and declares this is his first fall
from grace to her knowledge. She
attributes his downfall to bad COM
pany and says the father is bowed
down with grief over his sons trouble.
Mrs King is newspaper woman of
note in Wisconsin and is associate
editor of the Waupun Leader.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget Gathered by Our
Special Correspondent at Madison.
Need Better Care for Feeble Minde,

Need Better Care for Feeble Minded.
An emphatic protest against the
provisions of a new law which pro-
vides that the feeble minded and the
imbecile can be committed to asylums
for the chronic insane is TO be found
in the annual report of DR.. William F.
Beutler, superintendent of the asylum
for the chronic insane of Milwaukee
county. The report was submitted to
the board of trustees of the institu-
ton at the annual meeting at which
DR.. Beutler was unanimously reflect
ed as superintendent for another year.
The report of the board of trustees
which will be sent to the annual meet
ing of the county board will commend
the management of the institution I'M
der DR.. Beutler's management and will
contain recommendations for the es-
tablishment of a separate building for
the feeble minded and the imbeciles.
The following were elected as officers
of the board of trustees: President,
Jacob Truss; vice president, M. J.
Heisler; secretary, r. Seidel. In adj
of the board are George w. Mayhem
and Andrew Oswald In his report DR..
Beutler says with regard to the new
law regarding imbeciles and the
feeble minded: ''In speaking of our
increased population I feel that
must take this opportunity to speak
on a subject which has long been
source of anxiety to me and that is
the frequency with which cases of
feeble minded have been committed
to this asylum. There is no provision
made in asylums of this class to care
for the feeble minded. They are help
less and require more attention than
even the hospitals for the acute in
sane could find time to give them
and / wish to make here a vigorous
protest to the injustice that is done
both classes of people by compelling
them to be confined in the same
wards without adequate accommoda-
tons and in direct opposition to the
teachings of medical authorities and
the principles of humanity" During
the last year about Is imbeciles have
been confined at the institution. DR..
Beutler is one of those who is of the
opinion that the state of Wisconsin
should make stronger effort to pro-
vide for the care of the feeble minded
and the imbeciles who are at the pres
ent time a menace if allowed to
| mingle with society.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14

the Dutch fleets used to lie at anchos
in the days when Holland disputed
with England the supremacy of the
seas. 1t seems peculiarly appropriate,
now that Holland has turned from the
ways Of war to the paths of peace.
that she should win in a great fight
with the sea-a fight that has con-
tinued throughout hundreds of years
attaining victory only by ceaseless
vigilance and fierce endeavor. And yet
one cannot but experience a feeling of
regret that those ancient cities which.
though nations rose and fell, made
good the circles of their battered ram
parts, defying alike the power of the
sea and the might of Spain, should be-
come quiet inland towns, far removed
from the roar of the breakers against
the dykes.-Technical World.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
Difficulties to Overcome.

Difficulties to overcome.
Between St. Louis and Cairo diff
ficulties that a few years ago would
have been regarded as insurmountable
will unquestionably be encountered.
The slope there averages only seven
inches per mile for the entire distance
of 1913 miles. At normal low water the
volume between those two points is
$4,000 second feet. With the river
in normal flood it rises to ten times
that Cow and in times of extraordi-
nary flood has reached between 800,-
00G and 100000 second feet. A flood
volume of such magnitude on a slope
so deep produces a waterway of i'm
mense breadth with uncertain depth
at low water.
The low water season, when the riv-
er depth is frequently less than IL
feet, averages 120 days yearly in the
district between st. Louis and Cairo.
The alIuvial deposits incident to the
flood overfiowS must, of course, be
taken into consideration in any scheme
for the curbing of the Mississippi's
width that has the maintenance of an
all the year round deep channel as
it's objective. Saving banks and extern
sive 1evee construction must be under.
taken, it is conceded, in such way
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
To Control Mississippi.


Between the mouth of the Illinois,
at Grafton, and the harbor limits of
st. Louis the distance down the Mis-
sissippi river is 80 miles. In this
stretch the Mississippi falls 81 feet.
1t is the magnitude of keeping the
great Mississippi tractable and within
bounds and providing a 14-foot chan
mel from st. Louis to the Gulf of Mex
leo that has given the greatest en-
gineers of the country pause. What
the completion of that undertaking
will cost no one processes to know &C.
curately. Surmises vary between $780,
100000 and $4O0,00O,000 A consider
already been expended in piecemeal
improvements on the Father of Wa
ters. Engineers admit that much of
this outlay has been practically vast
ed because the work was not carried
on along any we'll defined plan. 1t is
for the laying out of a general plan
of Mississippi valley improvement
that the business interests of the
great Central West are now bending
their energies.
After surveying the territory be-
tween Joliet and st. Louis a board
of army engineers few years ago es-
timated that the cost of a 14-foot wa
terway between those points would
cost $31 100000. About the feasibility
of continuing that stretch at the same
depth as the Chicago drainage canal
there is no doubt. The only questions
to be considered are those of dredging
and water supply.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
sauerkraut? Ach, Yes Plenty.

Milwaukee. - Sauerkraut! What
visions this word conjures up. Lives
there a German in Wisconsin with
soul 20 dead that he has never heard
of saUerkraut?
There need be no fear in Wisconsin
of a short crop this year. Reports
from all cabbage centers, Racine,
Two Rivers, Green Bay, Marinette,
Etcetera. state that while other crops
are somewhat delinquent, King Cab
bage is there in full glory. Packing
has started and the east is already
clamoring for Wisconsin sauerkraut.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
For Company.

Strolling into grocer's shop the
other day, little boy asked for half
pound of margarine. He was being
served, and the shopman was about to
wrap the margarine up in paper when
the lad exclaimed: please, sir, my
muver wants to know if yer'n stamp
a COW on it, eos we're having cum.
y."--London Farm and Home, y
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
Welsse to Introduce Bryan.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Charles
H. Weisse, of this city, representing
the Sixth district, has signified his
willingness to act as POSTMASTER at
the banquet to be rendered to William
Jennings Bryan at Fond du Lac on
November IL. Mr.. Weisse is one of
the two Democratic congressman in
Wisconsin, the other being James w.
Murphy, of Platteville.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
Can Indians Violate Law.

Wisconsin game wardens are ur
against a new proposition. The ques
ton is, "Can an Indian be arrested for
violating the state game laws?" n
D. Robrecht, deputy warden of Ian
glade county, and Deputy Foster of
Wausau met an Indian who wanted
to sell them trout. They arrested him
and placed him in jail. Now the war
dens are at sea as to prosecution. In
dams are state charges and it is not
known if a state or a federal court
may be the seat of trial. The Indian
arrested was not on reservation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14

Milwaukee. - Wisconsin school
boards, by authority granted by the
last legislature, declared November Z
and 8, Thursday and Friday, holidays,
to enable teachers to attend the con-
vention of state teachers. This has
not been necessary heretofore, as the
conventions were held during the
Christmas holidays.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
Bow Fatally Shot.

Markesan.-Herbert Evans, aged 13,
was probably fatally injured by the
accidental discharge Of his shotgun
in trying to climb through barbed
wire fence while hunting. One arm
was amputated.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
Sheriff Must Stand Trial.

BY an opinion of the Wisconsin
supreme court Fred Eggert, former
sheriff of Manitowoc county, and his
sureties will have to stand trial again
on the charge of liability for the sher-
ifs alleged negligence in allowing
the steamship Portage to be taken
from his possession after attaching it
for a judgment of $2,537.72 for per-
sonal injuries held against its own
ers by Frank Phillips. The supreme
court holds that the lower court erred
in it's verdict for the defense and says
that a new trial must be had.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
To Go on Retired List.

Lieut. Col. William w. Robinson,
Jr., United States array, for some
time chief quartermaster of the de-
partment of the lakes, has been or
dered before a retiring board at
Washington, and will soon be placed
on the retired list
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14

est outlay for artificial improvement
of the Mississippi would be neces-
sary. The distance between those two
points is 764 miles. All of the big en-
cheering feats will have to be &C
complished within that territory. If
a stable channel of IA feet can be
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
CHARGED with Incendiarlsm.

Chippewa rails. J. Haasl, we'll
known Bruce business man, has been
bound over to the circuit court to an
swer to the charge of setting on fire
his building, insured for $1,40O. &
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
Makes War on Liquor Agents.

Kenosha.-Mayor German caused
the arrest of five brewery agents and
issued warrants for the arrest of two
others who were out of the city,
charging they had been doing bust
ness on a retail liquor license.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
Sends wife Deserter to Prison.

Rhinelander.-State prison is the
penalty for wife desertion in Rhine
lander now David O'Donnell, a
strong, healthy husband, left his wife
a year ago. He was found in northern
Minnesota by the sheriff and County
Judge Billings melted out the heaviest
possible sentence after hearing that
ODonnells wife and baby are in dire
want
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
Kills His YOUNG Sister.

Marshfield.-Frank Geckes, 10 years
old, accidentally shot and killed his
eight-year-old sister while showing his
new gun to his cousin.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
Fewer Hunters This Year.

The amendment to the hunting law
reducing the number of deer that a
nonresident hunter can take out of
the state from two to one has result
ed in big falling of in the number
of nonresident licenses issued this
year. The total number of such IL
censes issued so far this season is
III as against about three times that
number last year. AS the fee for these
licenses is $25 apiece, the revenue of
the state hunting fund from this
source has been $2,925 this season as
against three times that much last year.