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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
ELGIN FARMERS HIRE JAPANESE.
Take Place OF Hungarians in Harvest
ina SUGAR Beet Crop.

Elgin, Oct. 4.-Kane county is be-
ing invaded by Japanese farm labor
ers for the first time in its history
Jap labor has been hit upon as a So
luton of the farmers troubles in Sc
curing men to pull the 1000 acres of
sugar beets in this vicinity. More
than a dozen have arrived and many
times this number are expected when
height.
Hungarian labOrers, used extensive
ly in the past, are seeking other lines
OF employment and the mikado's sub
The Monaghan promises to become a
factor in the sugar beet industry and
reports from the Rock County Sugar
company Of GAINESVILLE that buys
practically the entire output in the
Elgin district, are to the effect that
the yellow men will be hired in
great numbers this year.
During the latter part of the har-
vest time, when all the farmers are
hurrying to get in their crops before
cold weather strikes them, nearly 100
laborers will be- needed. The major
ity of these Will be Japs, as they have
proven themselves especially capable
The Eigin sugar beet crop this year
will undoubtedly be a bumper one
The men who ventured into this
branch of agriculture a year ago ex
pect to realize twenty tons of beets
: to the acre this season. This esti
mate is considered a trife high al
though the weather has been excep
tionally good and every indication is
that 1T will not be far from correct.
| The Durham farm at Wayne was
| first to install the sugar beet business
j in Kane county and this year 100
acres are given to raising the vege
! table. D. B. HOOrnbeek. A. Y. Reed
+ and Frank Wolgamuth are the chic
raisers in the immediate Vicinity Of
! EIgin. The district takes in Huntley
Pingree Grove, Hampshire, Sycamore
and Wayne. The farmers receive s.
the ton for the product on board the
cars at Elgin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
Scene of Vernal Happiness.

The coming of spring makes US
happy" said an ethnologist, because
millions of years ago, it made happy
the hairy, gibbering creatures that
men then were. PrimeYaI man lived
in trees, in caves and burrows. He
could not build and he had not yet
discovered fire. Hence winter, with
its sleet and snow and ice, was a
time Of terrible suffering to the poor
naked wretch. With the spring.
coming, the return of the flowers, the
birds and the blue skies, with the re-
turn above all of the warm sunshine,
naked man rejoiced with an intensity
we can hardly imagine He lay on
the green grass. the sunlight poured
its gold floods Of warmth on his red
dish hide, and he was profoundly
happy in the thought that for five or
six months he would be quite com
Portable 1t is a faint, dim memory
of that happiness which makes US
today vaguely rejoice in the beautiful
spring weather, vaguely hope that
something pleasant is going to happen
to US"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
TRAGEDIES.

Harry, the y months old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Wilds, of Green Bay,
drank the contents of a saucer of fly
poison and died.
Mrs. August Westphal of Appleton
was fatally injured by falling down
stairs into the cellar of her daugh-
tcr's home at GreenVille.
Samuel Joseph Williams ofa Alton,
Ill, aged %, tried to step from one
launch to another at the power boat
station. He fell between the launches,
and, being unable to swim, was
drowned.
Harry Watson, aged 3 years, near
Kauts, Ind, while riding on a disc
harrow with his father, fell off and
was run over by the machine, receiv-
ing injuries which proved fatal
Blinko KtIish, drill boy, aged is
years. fell 1000 feet in No. 5 shaft of
the Tamarack mine at Calumet, Mich.
His remains were collected in a bas-
ket.
Seven men were injured and a boy
was killed in an explosion in the fac
tory of the Ideal Comb company at
Cambridge, Mass. The plant was
burned at loss Of $250 600.
J. Howard of StarIweather, N. D.,
shot and killed his brother-in-law, J.
Thomas, a farmer, following a violent
quarrel. Then he shot himself and it
is believed he will die.
One man was instantly killed and
more than q dozen were injured when
a car crashed into a furniture van in
Brooklyn. Samuel Witnick, the driver,
was killed
Horace J. Ray, of Philadelphia,
aged Is years, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the presence of
IS year old Florence Marshall, his
schoolgirl sweetheart, because he had
been forbidden paying attention to
her to the neglect of his studies.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
ABOR AND INDUSTRY.

The Green Bay Yacht club will be
incorporated with q capital stock of
$4,000.
One hundred and fifty additional
mechanics arrived at Montreal and
were put to work in place of Cana
dian Pacific railway strikers.
Elevator No. 3 of the Globe Elevat-
or company at Superior has been
bonded by the government. 1t has a
capacity of 100000 bushels of grain.
President Roosevelt designated AS
sistant Secretary of the Interior
Frank Pierce to represent the govern
ment at the transmississippi CONNER
cial congress in San Francisco, Oct.
Clio.
Subscription papers for stock in an
industry which may locate at Ply
mouth. Wis, are being circulated.
The concern desires that the people
of Plymouth subscribe to $4,000
stock.
The Everett Clark Seed company
may locate at Green Bay. A deal is
pending for the purchase Of a tract OF
land 46Ox50 feet where a four story
concrete building viii be erected for
storage of seeds.
The contract for the construction
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
Blood Poisoning from Golf.

Sheboygan, Wis, Oct. 6.-John
Green of Pittsburg, Pa, an attorney
for the Westinghouse company is Sc
riously i'll at St. Nicholas hospital as
the result of an infection of his hand
contracted while playing golf at the
Country club links. Mr.. Green wore
blister on his thumb from constant
playing. While making the course a
week ago, the blister opened. Blood
poisoning set in and for time it was
feared he would loose his arm.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
DISAGREE WITH
EMINENT SAVANT
THE TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS
+ THINKS BOVINE BRAND AT
FECTS HUMAN BEINGS.

Washington, Oct. A signal vic
tory was Saturday won by the oppon-
ents of the theory advanced by Dr..
Koch, the German scientist, minim-
izing the dangers of human Infection
from bovine tuberculosis bacilli, when
the sixth triennial international con
gress on tuberculosis, just before final
Adjournment, placed itself squarely
on record in opposition of the views
of the German savant. The contro-
versy over this issue, which has been
the subject of much spirited debate
during the entire proceedings of the
congress, reached a climax Saturday
when that body by unanimous vote
adopted a resolution recognizing the
possibility of human Infection from
bovine tuberculosis bacilli. Koch
sat throughout the proceedings with,
out even so much as an order of dis
approval. Dr.. M. p. Ravenel of the
University of Wisconsin was a lead
err of the opposition to DR.. Koch.
An entirely unexpected but one Of
the most pleasant surprises of the
closing scenes was the appearance
for the first time during it's proceed
ings of President Roosevelt
In a characteristic address the
president paid a notable tribute to
an assemblage of so many scientists
when he declared it to be his belief
that no gathering could take place
, fraught with greater hope for the wei
fare of the people at large than this
congress.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08

republican vice presidential nominee,
and Congressman Longworth, who
travelled through two states, together
making 80 speeches. The party
journeyed almost from the Mississippi
river across the northern part of HI
inois, thence south from Chicago TO
Egypt" a democratic stronghold,
winding up the day here in the
hooSier state. One of the speeches
was at Salem, H., Mr.. Bryan's birth
place, where in brief address Mn
Sherman paid high tribute to Mr.
Bryan. IF as boy. if in his young
manhood, Mr.. Bryan manifested the
same lovely traits of character, II he
was the same kindly, thoughtful, gen
erous person he was as young man
in congress, he must. indeed, have
very many friends in this commun-
ity."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
FOREIGN.


Olga Marcess a telephone operator
at the postoffice in Genoa, has
just won 100000 in lottery. She is
beseiged with offers of marriage from
countless unknown admirers.
According to La Vita, the duke of
the Abruzzi will soon leave for the
United States, where his marriage to
Miss Katharine Elkins, of West Vir-
ginfa will take place in November.
Alarming reports are current re-
garding the health of King Charles of
Roumania, who recently was said to
ton. A Berlin specialist has been
sent for.
A sharp clash between French Of
ficials and representatives of the
German consulate is reported from
Casa Blanca, resulting from an at
tempt to arrest deserters from the
French foreign legion.
! The steamer Kite has reached New
Foundland with news that the steam
er Erik, which accompanied
the Peary expedition to the north, is
! on her way to st. Johns to refft after
being damaged in a collision with an
| iceberg.
Andrew D. White is visiting Berlin
for the first time since his retire
ment as ambassador to Germany. He
is travelling from Homburg, where he
has been taking the waters, to Ham
+ burg, whence he sails Oct. l for New
! York.
| Of the great demonstrations held
! in Hyde Park, London, in recent
years that to protest against the Ii
censing bill, was by far the largest.
= The crowd was estimated at 100000.
, Ninety persons spoke gainst the bill,
! which was condemned in resolutions.
At massmeeting in st. Peters
burg attended by 5000, a resolution
! was adopted that the students of
this university take the lead in de-
claring a student strike throughout
, Russia in protest against the repress-
i've measures of the new minister of
/ education, NJ Schwartz.
n u oI5Cuy Ctulltu at camp JUDD
man near Manila, which resulted in
the death of Lieutenant Edward J.
Bloom of the Fourth Infantry and
Private Suttles, Company H, of the
same regiment. SuttIes for some I'M
! known reason shot Bloom and then
cut his own throat.
The first international congress or
gained to discuss the problems of
: moral education was opened in Lon
! don at the Imperial Institute. The
object Of the congress is to secure
, the cooperation of the various govern
= ments for the Improvement of moral
education, and seventeen nations, in
Guiding the United States, are repre-
scented officially.
The Cri de Paris again reyives the
story that the Prince and Princess
: Helie de Sagan are going to Germany
to live. The newspaper says the
princess has agreed to cleaf the Sa.
gan estates of debt and rebuild the
ancient chateau in Silesia, and that
Prince Helie will resume the rank OF
duke and be received at the German
court.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
JUVENILE GREEKS
MUST DISEX|ST
HIGH SCHOOL FRATERNITIES
LOSE THEIR CASE IN
CHICAGO COURT.

Chicago, Oct. 4.-secret societies
and fraternities in high schools are
a menace to discipline and progress
of classes, according to a decision of
Judge Windes Saturday in the legal
fight begun by pupils of the Hyde
Park high school against the board of
education. More than so pupils had
been suspended from the school be-
cause of membership in secret soci-
cites. Edward Macdonald, a pupil
who refused to sign a pledge TO with
draw from society, filed a petition
for mandatory writ to compel the
school board to reinstate him without
his having to give up his allegiance
to the fraternity. The school board
maintained that the existence of fra
ternities was open rebellion against
regulations. The court denied the
writ, thus sustaining the board.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
MRS. THAW GOES
BACK ON HARRY

New York, Oct. Airs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw, in a signed statement
given out by her Saturday
night. makes the claim that for
the past two months Harry K
Thaw has not contributed to her
support and that, contrary to
general opinion, no sum of money has
ever been settled on her either by
Thaw or his family. She declares
that the bankruptcy proceeding is
merely a pretext to get Thaw out OF
New York, and once in Pennsylvania
he will stay there. She declares
that he is incurable mentally and
that while he pretends to have no
money his income from his coke trust
alone is 100000 year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
DOMESTIC.

Count NJ. Thue Won Bentzen. a Dan
ish nobIeman, has been married 10
Miss Alice NJ. Baer of ST Louis.
The controller of the currency is
sued a call on national banks for a
statement of their condition at the
close Of business on Sept. %.
Six BLACK Hand" prisoners. MAX
ing twelve this week, were sentenced
to terms in Jail varying from six
months to seven years at Winnipeg
yesterday.
The postmaster general has decided
not to take up the case of Sherman
c. Deuham, postmaster at CIarksburg,
W. Va, charged with pernicious po-
liticaI activity, until after the cleo
ton.
William Buelow, aged i, of Elgin,
I'll, was instantly killed by the acct
dental discharge of 4 shotgun while
hunting. The trigger caught on his
buggy as Buelow jumped out to shoot
a squirrel
An order of Judge Archibald, ad-
Judging Harry X. Thaw in contempt
of court, was filed in the United
States district court ut PiIIsbury by
counsel for Roger O'Mara, the trustee
of Thaws estate.
Governor Fort of New Jersey, has
been left $25O,000 by the will Of Mrs.
Abby Reasoner. The governor is made
the residuary legatee of Mrs. Rea-
soner. who, although not q relative,
was a close friend of the Fort family,
Absolom Burnett and wife. each
aged IS. born and reared as school
mates in Fayette, Ohio, where they
were married fffty-siX years ago, were
buried on the same day at Peru, Ind.
Both died Of paralysis within two
days.
DR.. J. A. s. Grassland. formerly
United States minister to Liberia, and
4 negro political leader of national
prominence. was arrested at St. Jo-
seph. Mo. on a charge of grand lar
ceny. DR.. eros land is accused OF
the wholesale theft of drugs, cigars,
etc. from a drug store.
Plunging from the trestle almost at
the same spot where 0. n. Collins
lost his life in a similar accident two
weeks ago, an automobile belonging
10 J. ". Snyder of Spokane, Wash,
fell sixty feet, killing the owner and
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
OBITUARY..

Charles G. Stark, pioneer business
man of Milwaukee, died suddenly at
Pollard Springs, Me.
Eugene Sanville, aged sc years, a
member of the government life saw
ing crew for ten years, is dead at
Sheboygan.
Melvin Gould, cousin of George
]. Gould, and once a favorite of Jay
Gould, died a pauper in the county
hospital at Los Angeles, Cal, and
friends saved his body from the pot
ter's field.
James w. Paul, banker and f1nan-
cier, a member of the firms of Drexel
& Co., Philadelphia; J. P. Morgan &
Co., New York, and Morgan-Harjes
company of Paris, died at Hot
Springs, Va, of apoplexy. He was
fifty-seven years of age.
Frank de Haas Robson, traction
magnate and widely known as pat
ron of baseball, died suddenly of
heart disease at his summer residence
in the fashion suburb of Bratenhal,
near Cleveland, aged fifty-six years.
His traction interests were represent
ed in more than one hundred cities
of the United States and Canada.
Edmond Quincy Sewall, father of
Edmond D. Sewall, assistant to A. J.
Earling, president of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad, is dead
at his home in Lake Geneva. He was
so years of age and had been in the
railroad business continuously after
his graduation from Harvard. He was
connected with what is now known as
the Milwaukee road in 1857, and for
years was comptroller of the system,
retiring about eight years ago.
Professor Frank Parsons, promi-
nent as a lawyer, educator, and author
died at his home in Boston. PrOfes-
sOr Parsons was known throughout
the country because of his connection
with scientific associations as we'll as
having written many books and de
Ilivered many lectures on economics
sociology and political science. He
was So years of age.
Thomas G. Morris, for many years
a lumber commission merchant OF
Chicago, died at Greenfield, Mass.
aged 81. He was early associated with
the late Col. John Mason LOOMS an0
with John McLaren and afterwards
carried on business as Thomas G
Morris & Co. Three years ago he re
tired and since then has lived in the
east. He was a nephew of the late
Thomas NJ. Avery, founder of the
/ EIgin Watch works.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
BEARS HOLD UP TRAIN.
Brun and Cub Refuse to Move from
Railroad Track.

Appleton, Wis, Oct. 4.-Because
the engineer did not have the heart
to run them down, a passenger train
on the Ashland division of the North
western road, running between Nom
leo and RhineIander was held up and
delayed for a quarter of an hour by
a big bear and her cub. An Apple
ton man, who was among the passen-
gers on the train. declares the bear
and cub remained on the track and
refused to move except when the en-
glue men climbed from the cab and
threatened to drive away the ami
mails The only move they made
then was to walk toward the men. in
a threatening manner. 1t was not I'M
til the express messenger was sum-
moned and several bullets sent whiz-
ling past the ears of the bruins that
the right-of-way was cleared and the
train resumed its trip.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
DEBS DENIES CHARGE OF
SELLING OUT FEDERATION

Syracuse, n. Y, Oct. 4.-Bugene v.
Debs, socialist candidate for presi-
dent, answered the charge of Samuel
Gompers that he sold out the Amcri
can federation of labor. He declared
the statement to be an unqualified
falsehood, and continued:
"He said l betrayed the locomotive
fremen, but I have an invitation to
their convention. When l resigned
they gave me $4,000. I refused to
take it. Has Gompers ever refused
anything? When I was at the head OF
the A. r. U. Gompers was doing ali
he could to break the strike
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
.DOWIE ESTATE
SEEMS BUSTED

Chicago, Oct. Gus D. Thomas,
receiver Of the estate Of the late
John Alexander Dow.e, founder OF
the religious community at Zion
City, Ill, yesterday fled a report in
the federal court showing assets OF
$L709,647. Against this are secure:
claims of $326,327, and unsecured
claims, including a number ill in
dispute. for $4,9O3,725.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
CLEVELAND LETTER
CONTINUES TO BE q
MATTER OF DISPUTE

Macon, Ga, Oct. John w. Kern,
democratic vice presidential candi,
date, upon arriving here Saturday
night, telegraphed his reply to a re-
quest from the New York Times for
proof of the spurious" nature Of the
letter attributed to the authorship of
the late Grover Cleveland, as charged
by Kern in his speech at Birmingham
Friday. The letter in question pur'
ported to show that Mr.. Cleveland ia
vored the candidacy of the republican
presidential nominee, and Kern
branded its use as a document by
Taft's campaign managers as an at,
tempt to place a stigma upon the
memory Of the former president.
He further declared that although
proved to be a fabrication, the news
papers responsible for its circulation
either have failed to right the alleged
wrong or have SO placed the retrac
ton as to attract no attention. His
teIegraphed reply to the Times was in
effect that Mr.. Hastings, executor OF
the Cleveland estate, surviving mem
bers of the Cleveland cabinet, Mrs.
Cleveland and others familiar with
Mr.. Cleveland's language and man
ner, have pronounced the letter spur
ious. In his speech Mr.. Kern said
District Attorney Jerome had taken
steps to bring the guilty author TO
justice.
The Times, in It's telegram TO Kern
said that "the only evidence against
the genuineness of the Cleveland ar
ticle is the statement Of F. II. Hast
ings, executor of the Cleveland es
tate, that he has evidence a state
ment made after his repeated certf
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08

ncatlons to the genuineness Of the
article and his sale of it to the agent,
who in turn sold it to the New York
Times
Also that Hastings has failed to pro.
duce this evidence, and that it was
the Times itself that called Jerome's
attention to the matter; that the
Times and other papers prominently
printed Hastings denial of the au.
thenticity of the letter, together with
his previous certifcation of its genu.
ineness.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
Cholera Claims Racine Nictin,

Racine, Wis, Oct. A cablegram
was received here from the Philip
pines announcing the death of Frank
Peters OF cholera. At the outbreak of
the Spanish-American war Peters en-
tered the volunteer service and was
stationed in the Philippines. For :
number of years he was member of
the Schultz band and quite popular
here. He is survived by a mother.
two brothers and three sisters.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
ANOTHER FLYING RECORD.
Established by Wilbur Wright With
Passenger.

lie Mans, Oct 4.-Wilbur Wright,
the American aeroplanist, who holds
the worlds record for an aeroplane
flight, established another world S
record Saturday afternoon for time
and distance with a passenger, when
he remained in the air IS minutes
and 81 seconds, covering a distance
of about SO miles. His best previ-
Gus flight with a passenger was Ii
minutes and 50 2-5 seconds.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
Tua Fireman Eescues Child

Washburn, Wis, Oct. 4.-The 10.
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Anton Swanson fell from the docks
into the water A fireman on the
tug plunged into the water and after
a desperate struggle succeeded in
escuing her.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
TO PUNISH COERCION.
snecial Fund Set Apart by Democrat
ic Committee.

New York, Oct. Norman E.
Mack chairman Of the democratic
national committee, said Saturday be-
fore leaving for the west that a spe-
cial fund Of $4,000 had been appropri-
ated and set apart for the purpose Of
Furnishing any person or corporation
which endeavors to coerce employees
in the national election.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
HEARST HITS BAILEY.

Carries the Fight into Senator'S own
State.
Ell Paso, Tex, Oct 4.-William r.
Hearst carried his fight against the
junior senator from Texas into his
own state when Saturday night he
read in the course of a speech here
letters from J. w. Bailey to II. G..
Pierce, a copy of note for $4,000
and extracts from speech by Bailey
in defense of Joseph Sibley.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-08
Warner Losing Votes.

Lansing, Mich, Oct. 6.-The state
board yesterday completed the re-
count of the vote of Huron county
and commenced that of Lapeer coun-
ty. Governor Warner lost 1S5 votes
yesterday.