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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23
The Penalty of Official Negligence.


| Oshkosh Northwestern.
1t is now believed that the number
Of persons who lost their lives in the
theater disaster at Boyertown, Pa,
may reach as high as 200 1t was GER
tainly a terrible price to pay for official
negligence in failing to see that proper
precautions had been taken to guard
public safety in this particular instance.
From later descriptions of the building
it would appear it was little less than a
veritable fretrap, and only needed the
initial accident and scare to result in
Just such a holocaust as has now oc-
Cured Nor is there any satisfaction in
the reflection that hundreds of other
small theaters throughout the country
are probably just as dangerous to public
safety as was this one and that repe-
tition Of this accident is likely to occur
at any time. To the sorrowing people Of
Boyertown there is no need Of addition
al reminder that an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure. They have
had their experience, and it is a safe
prediction that no theater will ever
again be allowed to run in that place
without safety arrangements to prevent
another wholesale disaster But in scores
of other places throughout the country
the people are weekly undergoing a
danger just as great, and accidents just
as distressing and lamentable will con
tinue TO occur until the public officials
in these places awake to the necessity
of enacting and strictly enforcing laws
and regulations that will do away with
these fretraps
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23
Notice of order for Final Settlement.
fSrgsrArE ESTATE.

:, TATE OF WtSCONSIN-IOWA COUNTY
COURT-IN PROBATE
Notice is hereby given that az a special term
of the Iowa County Court, to be held In and for
said county, at the Court House, in the city OF
Dodgeville, IN said county, on the 18th day OF
February. a. d. 1905. being the 18th Tuesday of
said month at 10 O'clock in the forenoon OF
said day, the following matters will be heard
and considered:
The application of J. T. Tredinnick admin.
istrator OF the estate of Nicholas rredinnick
Sr., late of said county, deceased, for the
examination and allowance of his admins.
tration account and the assignment of the resi-.
due of said estate to such persons as are by
law entitled to the same.
And is is further ordered that public notice
thereof be given to all persons Interested by
publishing a copy of this notice for three weeks
successfully, prior to said day of hearing In
the Mineral Point Tribune. a weekly news,
paper published in said county.
Dated this 2lst day of January, 1908.
By the Court:
fwa ALDRO jerks, County Judge
Fielder & Fielder. Attorneys.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23
Legal Notices.
Notice to Creditors.

STATE OF WISCONSIN-IOwA COUNTY
- COURTS IN PROBATE
In the matter of the estate Of Minnie
&. Jones, deceased.
Letters of administration on the estate OF
MINNIE u Jones, deceased. having been
issued TO Thomas o. Jones
Notice Is hereby given, that the creditors OF
said Minnie G. Jones. deceased, are allowed
and limited by order of this court until and in
gliding the first Tuesday of August. 1905
being the Attn day of said r1onth 70 present
their claims and demands against said Minnie
Jones, deceased, 70 the county court
tor examination aud allowance
Notice Is also hereby given, that the claims
so presented will be examined and
adjusted by this court. at the Office of the
County Judge. at the court house. in the city OF
Dodgeville. in said county, on the first Tues
day OF September. 1905.
Dated this 2ist day of January 1905
By the Conrt,
twi ALDRO jerks. County Judge.
Fielder x Fielder. Attorneys.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

CTATE OF WTSCONSIN-IOWA COUNTY
- COURT-IN PROBATE

Notice is hereby given that at a regular term
of the Iowa County Court, to be held in aud
for said county, at the Court House. in the
city of Dodgeville in said county. on the 9TH
day of February A. ID. 1908, being the first
Tuesday of said month. at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon of said day. the following matters
will be heard and considered:
The application of Thomas Polkinghorn and
J. h. Reynolds TO admit TO probate the last
win and testament of Elizabeth Polkinghorn
late of the city of Mineral Point, in said
county. deceased.
And it is further ordered, that public notice
thereof be given to all persons interested by
publishing copy of this order for three weeks
successfully prior 10 said day of hearing, in
the Mineral Point Tribune. a weekly news
paper published in said county.
By the Court;
ALpRo jerks. County Judge iw3
Dated Dodgevlle. Wis. Dec. 81, 1907
j. b Reynolds. Attorney.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

railroad company that sold it. It has
received full pay for the service and is
bound 10 render that service when called
for. and has no right we believe to inn
pose any other conditions especially
that which limits time of service.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

HARRY THAw's lawyers are trying
to show that ne was perfectly sane be-
fore the murder, is perfectly sane now,
and was insane only for the moment in
which he is supposed to have conceived
the crime, formed the determination,
and fred the fatal shot. Such a princi-
pie in law and jurisprudence, once adj
mitted, would absolye every murderer
with money enough to hire cute law
yers and experts.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

A MILWAUKEE loafer had to pay 800
and costs in Judge Neelen's court last
week, for cruelty kicking little spaniel
which was playing around his feet.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

IT is said that 1900, 900 acres Of
land in the United States can be con-
veniently irrigated, and that 80, 900, 600
acres can be redeemed by drainage.
In the latter form Of Improvement the
country has yet to make a beginning.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

A TRANSATLANTIC telephone line is
contemplated between England and the
United States; and it is to be put in
operation during the year 1905 The
shore ends Of the line will be operated
by the ordinary hello" girls, and the
intermediate stations for steamship
communication viii be in charge Of
mermaids, probably. Aboard ship per-
sons can talk with friends at home, or
transact business, or make appoint
ments on shore.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23
THURSDAY, JANUARY %. 1903.

TARIFF reciprocity is proposed be-
tween French champagne and Amer
lean linseed oil. Our cider and cotton
seed oil producers await the particulars
with interest.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

TINS has been great winter,
saws the Toledo Blade, for winning
the ball games that are TO be played
next summer. The same cheerful
nervousness is noticed in some Of the
national convention talk.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

If Bryan is good thing there can
not be too much Of him. Responding
to a popular demand, the Democrats
might smash the line with ticket
headed by William j Bryan Of Ne
braska and William J. Bryan Of Florida.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

STATIsTICiASs Of the future will have
trouble with 1907 when they strike the
fact that it was the year of the great
est production and Of panic
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

Whitewater Register: Crazy? OF
course he's crazy. Thaw smokes 80
cigarettes day That's enough to in
sanity man Of brain, let alone little
ThaW
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

FIRE loss in the United States is $2.47
per capita, and in six Of the largest
European countries only 80 cents. The
proportion against us Of seven to one is
remarkably heavy, and yet the general
feeling in regard to il is one Of indifrer-
cnce
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

STATE OF WISCONSIN-IOWA COUNTY
= COURT-IN PROBATE.

CTATE OF WISCONSIN-IOWA COUNTY
> COURT-IN PROBATE.
Notice is hereby given that at a special term
of the Iowa County court. 70 be held in aud for
said county, at the Court House in the city OF
Dodgeville. in said county, on the 18th dag of
February, A. d. 1905 being the third Tuesday
Of said month, at ten o'clock IN the forenoon
Of said day. the following matters will re
heard and considered:
The application of John Repka and Anton
Repka for the appointment of an admins
traitor de bonis non with the will annexed of
the estate of Albert Repka. late of the town
Of CLYDE i'm said county, deceased.
And IL is further ordered. that public notice
thereof be given 20 all persons Interested by
publishing a copy of this order for three n eels
>ucceSs,vely, prior 10 said day of hearing n
the Mineral Point Tribune weekly news
paper published in said county,
BY order of the Court:
-wa -siBt,o q rt.,NS, county Judge.
Dated D9aE eiue. Wis. january =. 1875
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

Mt. Carroll Democrat: When Presi-
dent Roosevelt discovered that de-
serter from the army had been newly
married, be pardoned him and married
editor arises to inquire if the President
considers mauimony a sufficient pun
ishment for desertion.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-23

Entered at the pestoace IN Mineral Point
wis. as seeondclass matter.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-06-13

ton have also been strengthened by
the addition of new instructor to the
staff of each.
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ton Of crops, and list the varieties of
winter wheat most suitable for dry
farming.
Throughout the United States there
is now an increasing demand for teach
ers who are prepared to give instruc-
ton in agriculture in the high schools.
The high school superintendent of Ida
no are awake to this movement. To
meet this demand for instructors, the
members of the faculty of the College
of Agriculture, in cooperation with the
Department of Pedagogy, announce
brief courses of instruction in methods
of teaching the different subjects in
cluded in an agricultural course, where
the intending teacher of agriculture
may receive instruction in normal
methods. 1t is the intention of the
Regents also to provide a sound second
airy education in agriculture, fitting
teachers for nature study and elemen-
tary teaching of agriculture in the ru-
raj schools. In this plan the prepare
tory school will connect the 9Th grade
of the public school with the College of
Agriculture, and intending students of
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-06-13
IDAHO'S GREATEST
STATE INSTITUTION
What 1t ls What 1t Has. What 1t Does.

There is not a citizen of Idaho but be-
leves in the future greatness of the
state. New possibilities are continual
ly opening before us; wider promises
are appearing everywhere. Idaho with
much already written in her history is
but at the beginning of her career.
And the men and women who shall
shape this future are now being edu-
Gated, or are yet to be educated, by
the system of public education, in the
grammar and high schools, State Nor
mails and Academy of Idaho, and in the
State University. We are warranted
then in speaking of this chiefest insti-
tuition of learning, that has such re-
sponsibility in relation to the future
welfare of the state, as the greatest
among her institutions. This is the
thought that greets visitor and student
alike as they enter the main portal of
the University, on the tablet within the
great stone arch of the new Admins
tration Building. 1t reads:
ERECTED BY
THE COMMONWEALTH OF
IDAHO
FOR THE TRAINING OF HER
FUTURE CITIZENS
TO HIGHEST USEFULNESS IN
PRIVATE LIFE AND
PUBLIC SERVICE
The Administration Building when
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-06-13

completed will be one of the finest struc-
lures devoted to educatioal uses in the
Northwest. 1t is three stories high, with
a tower, built of red brick trimmed in
sandstone. In it are the recita tion
rooms of the College of Letters and
Sciences. This building is the center
of the University architectural scheme,
the other buildings sweeping away
from it on either side in wide cres-
cent. On the left are the Engineering
Building and Ridenbaugh Hall, the
dormitory for young women. On the
right are the Armory and Gymnasium,
the Metallurgical Mill Assay Building,
and Morrill, Hall, the home of the Col
lege of Agriculture; all of these being
large, well-built, brick structures.
There are three additional frame build
ings on the campus, List Hall for Mu-
sic, the Forge Building of the Mechani-
cal Engineering Department and the
Experimental Flour Mill. The farm
buildings of the Experiment Station are
only short distance from the campus.
Because of the immense value of
mining interests in Idaho the Mining
Department of the University is re-
garded as one of the most important,
and the effort of the Regents has been
to make it the strongest branch of the
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-06-13

to visit. All the appliances for deter
mining the elements that enter into the
soils, waters, grains, fruits, etc., are
in daily use. There many problems are
solved and lessons learned and given to
the public that in former days were
found out by the farmer for himself
only after expensive experimenting,
and failures of crops and running of
land, and the other hard lessons of
experience.
The Experimental Flour Mill was
built with the same end in view, and
good progress has already been made
in ascertaining what varieties of wheat
are best adapted to Idaho soils, are
most profitable to grow, and contain
the most valuable food ingredients.
The Experiment Station Farm is the
laboratory of the Horticultural and
Agronomist. There the students learn
their best lessons, while their hands
are busy, and incidentally, by work on
the farm, help to support themselves
while carrying on their studies.
Some of the most valuable investga-
ton done by tho University in further
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-06-13

name for effectiveness, but in the
Northwest cavalry troop would add
immensely to the usefulness of the
state militia in any emergency which
called for the quick movement of troops
to distance.
Lieutenant Smith, Sd u. S. Cavalry,
came to the University as Commandment
directly from service in the Philippine
Islands, and has taken up the work
with such enthusiasm, in the regular
daily drill and during annual encamp-
ment, that his University battalion
won high commentator from the in
speeding officer of the War Department
on his annual tour of the schools where
military instruction is given.
The Department of Physical Educa-
ton is almost unique among western
educational institutions. Idaho is the
first to answer one of the evident needs
of student life in establishing it. The
design is that every student shall
undertake regular physical training,
under the advice of the head of the
department who is graduate physician
and an expert in corrective exercises.
The student thus carries on his physical
education side by side with his mental
development, and obtains the necessary
amount of
Exercise to Assure Health
during the years in which the steady
continuous mental exertion is kept up.
The average student needs more
vigorous bodily exertion to keep his
brain in the best condition, and this
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ed of course it is furnished with good
timber. The Civil Engineering De-
partment could hardly have stronger
recommendation than the list of its
alumni in the new catalogue which shows
the positions occupied by them at the
present time. Two are in good places
with the u. S. Reclamation Service;
two are in the Philippine Islands, as
Lighthouse Engineer, and in the Blu
reau of Public Lands; four men are
connected with the great railroads, as
inspectors or in construction work, one
having charge of particularly difficult
piece of mountain tunnelling and grad
ing for the Canadian Pacific; three are
practicing as Independent civil en-
gineers in their own state and others
are scattered through the western
states in the same capacity. This tells
what the Civil Engineering Depart
ment has done what it will do in the
future must be mapped on larger
scale. A second instructor has been
added during the year, and now special
attention is paid to the most advanced
problems of modern engineering. Rail
way engineering and hydraulics are of
first Importance at present on account
of the development Of
Railways and Irrigation Works
in Idaho; and in the department
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companies, has had charge of the COM
bined department of Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering. In the near
future Mechanical Engineering will be
separately organized, granting its own
appropriate degree and the work will
be carried by an associate professor.
With the new forge building, the iron
working and wood working shops, the
equipment of the department is being
shaped to meet the new requirements.
Next year interesting experiments are
planned in
Testing Fuel Values
for the economy of fuel is one of the
problems next to be faced in the me-
chanical world today.
The Armory and Gymnasium stands
next the Administration Building on
the right. At the front are the Offices
of the Military Commandant and the
Professor of Physical Education. The
main room occupies the whole width
and height of the building, giving room
for military drill and for large classes
in gymnastics. The basement is fitted
with lockers and baths, and contains
the gun rooms of the cadet battalion.
A new feature planned in the Military
Department is the organization Of
small
Troop of Cavalry
in the senior and junior classes.
The plan has received the sane
ton of the officials of the War
Department and is looked on with
exceptional interest as there is at pre-
sent no such body organized in connec-
ton with the military department of
any of the state universities. The
University Battalion has a splendid
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agriculture may take a full three
years course of agricultural instruc-
ton similar to that offered in the
School of Agriculture in Nebraska or
Minnesota. Further all male students
in the Preparatory School are required
to elect minimum amount of work in
Agriculture, Horticulture, Dairying
and allied subjects.
Another of the good things planned
by the Board of Regents for the Uni
versity students next year is series
OF lectures on the laws of Idaho.
There is no law school within the state.
and the time seems not yet ripe to es-
tabllsh law department in the Uniyer-
sity. Still there is a definite need for
carefully classified knowledge of the
laws OF Idaho, state, county and NUM-
cipal; and leading members of the
state bar will present the subject dur
ing the coming year at the University.
This knowledge is obtainable at no
other institution. This series will form
part of wider course of lectures to
be given before the general student
body, on Military History, Strategy
and Tactics as illustrated in Modern
Warfare; international Law; Govern
ment; and Diplomatic History. The
latter lectures will be presented by the
Military and History Departments and
the President, and the whole series
may be appropriately termed, Studies
in Citizenship.
The faculty in Modern Languages
has been strengthened. Formerly
the work was in charge of Dean Ed
ridge with assistants, but from
this time on Professor Eldridge will
take the German, and Professor
Shanks the Romance Languages.
French, Spanish and Italian. Dean
Eldridge is Yale man through and
through, Yale student and after
wards Yale instructor until his COM
ing to Idaho. His heavy adminstra-
tive work as Dean of the College of
Letters and Sciences does not keen
him from throwing himself vivaciously
into the work of instructing his classes.
List Hall, only recently reconstruct
ed and turned over to the Music De-
partment, is already overcrowded. AS
in other lines of culture, the UNIVERSE
ty is the center from which influences
radiate to the farthest corners of the
state. Professor Cogswell during the
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this west of the Missouri river and it is
equalled only by those used in the u.
S. Forest Service in California and
Washington. Heavy timbers from the
mills, building stone from the quarries
and concrete samples from work under
construction are brought here from the
various sections of the state and broken
or crushed in the different machines,
and the young engineers become famil-
lar with the building values of the ma
terials with which they must work in
after years. The Forest Service has
entered into an agreement with the
University of Idaho for cooperation
in
Timber Testing.
The University provides in ad-
dition to the. great machine
already noted smaller testing
machine, drying oven, circular saw
and planer. The Forest Service will
send to the University each year one of
its engineers to engage in testing the
properties of Idaho timber and super
wise the testing work done by the Uni
versity. The results of these tests
will be published by the cooperating
parties simultaneously. Thus q new
Department of Forestry will be added
to the University which will be of in
creasing Importance as Idaho s untouch-
ed forests are cut and put on the mar
kets during the coming years.
Professor Sheldon, Wisconsin Uni
versity man, and afterward connected
with several of the great electrical
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-06-13

department plans to teach the care of
the health and the prevention of ply
steal deterioration, as well as to train
athletes for the various college and
intercollegiate contests.
The athletic fame of the University
of Idaho has been placed high on the
roll of western schools by her cham
pionship football team of 1907, and just
at present it is listed for more distant
fame by Edmundson, the Idaho runner
who has defeated everyone in the
West, and is most promising candi-
date for the American team that will
represent this country in the Olympic
games at London next month. Ed
mundson's extraordinary work is done
in the quarter and half mile dashes.
Next to the Administration Building,
Morrill, Hall is the newest of the Uni
versity group, and is located at the
northern extremity of the campus on
the crown of hill with a splendid out
look over the city of Moscow and the
uplands and mountains beyond. Each
of the agricultural departments has a
suitable suite of rooms devoted to its
recitation work, laboratories, and col
lections. The Dairy Department is
fully equipped with the apparatus
needed in producing
Butter and Cheese
of the highest grade, in the most eco
nomical way. The dairying courses
are proving popular with the young
men, and the graduates of the depart
ment are all in good positions in a trade
where the supply of good men is far
short of the demand.
The laboratories of the Agricultural
Chemist are a most interesting place
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-06-13

the state. There is sufficient rainfall
even in the arid regions for successful
dry farming; and one-eleventh of the
total acreage of the state is tilable
land, still open to settlement, and val
liable if cultivated by dry farming
methods. There is already considera-
bic farming in the state without .,vari-
cation. 1t has been successfully tried
for twenty years in some localities but
only now the assurance is given by the
Investigators that it can be made prof
liable throughout all sections by the
Campbell methods. They point out,
too, the profit in fall blowing, in rota-
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ing Idaho's interests is carried on in
the substation maintained at Caldwell
in connection with the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. The Irrigation
list, Professor Nelson, has just publish
ed bulletin on dry farming that
should be studied by every farmer of