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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-04-11

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Notice Is hereby given, That at "A Special term Of
this Court. held on the oath day of March, 1903.
the petition Of Lucicn Merritt one of the heirs
at law Of said dccedcnt, was filed in this court
praying u Judgment determining the descent Of
certain lands in Douglas County. Wisconsin. to
Lucicn Merritt Ruth Merritt and Harry Merritt
the heirs at law Of said dccodent and 10 Leonidas
Merritt, the Surviving husband Of said Elizabeth
f. Merritt deceased
That pursuant to an order made herein Mt a
Special term uf this Court held on the oath day
March 1908 the said petition will be- heard at n
Special term Of this Court 10 be held on the 18th
day Of May. 1903. At 10 O'Clock in the forenoon OF
that day 10 the Office Of the County Judge, at the
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Plaintiff.

Charles II. Bind. hettie c.,
Erickson and j. T. Erickson. !
DESCENDANTS. |
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In the matter OF determining the descent OF GER
tain lands IN Douglas County, Wisconsin. to
the heirs At law Of Elizabeth +. Merritt, de-
ceased, late Of Duluth. It. Louis County. Min
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SlIES FURNISHED Oh APPLICATION

The TINY ha- bg4n duly entered at the
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lass matter
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Of,ice Northern Block, Superior, Wis
Peoples Phone 1895
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Dated th,a alth day Of March. l90S
By tine Court
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03
"a STRONG TAFT MOVEMENT"

Writing from New York to his pa
per, the Chicago Record-Herald, Will
liam E. Curtis says:
There is strong Taft movement
in Wall street. You would be sur
prised to hear the enthusiastic in
dorsements that are given to the Sec
rotary of war by the men who are sup
posed to be violently opposed to the
policies of the president"
That sounds familiar. Commoner
readers will remember that during the
month of March the Taft press bu-
reau, located at Columbus, O., sent
out, according to the Washington Her
aid, printed slips bearing these head
lines: Business Hope Lies on Taft"
Assert Taft Is Best Candidate" big
Wall Street House Calls on Financial
Interests to Assist in Nomination"
Following are extracts from the Taft
circular: MIR. Taft's long record is
distinctly against any conclusion that
he would continue Mr.. ROosevelt's
methods. He has displayed brains,
ability, good judgment, and, above all,
sanity. in the great and successful ac-
must not loose sight of the fact that
there is a temperamental difference
in the two men, Roosevelt and Taft.
BY nature and by training, as a law
yer and as a Judge, Mr.. Taft has al
ways manifested a thoughtful attitude
in his judgment, and great delibera-
ton and conservatism in his actions.
Neither is it conceivable that a man
of his force of character would be con-
trolled, when in the full power Of
the presidency, by any outside per-
sonality.'
In its issue of March 9, the Wash
ington Herald printed an interview
with Gen. Kiefer, member of con-
gress, in which he said that he was
for Taft. and did not believe that if
elected he would too closely follow
Roosevelt's ideas" 1t will be remem-
bered that these reports greatly dis
turbed Mr.. Taft and his managers and
they took pains to say that the cir
cular from the Taft headquarters had
been issued by a subordinate at the
Columbus Office.
Later the Omaha Bee, a leading
Taft organ. quoted from the New
York Commercial-Advertise this
paragraph:
"As to the me too charge it became
dead and showed not even mechanical
life when it appeared that with re-
spect to the Roosevelt policies Gov.
Hughes, Senator Knox Speaker Can
non, Vice-President Fairbanks and the
others were quite as much for thsm
as Secretary Taft"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03

jewellers, and in gravel pocket 40
feet above the street they started to
tunnel.
Buckstein resumed work as soon as
school was out, and was busy five feet
from the mouth of the tunnel when
John Scanlon noticed a four-ton rock
that was above the tunnel was sink
ing. He yelled to Buckstein to come
out, but his companion was slow in
starting, and the bowlder settled, pin
ming him upon his back and resting
across his feet and right arm.
Immediately the boys began to call
for help, and at the foot of the cliff
crowd assembled, including the i'm
prisoned boys mother, who became
historical. After various plans Of
rescue had been discussed the fire de-
partment was summoned
Men of truck 2S, under Acting Bat
talon Chief Tonvey, found it difficult
to remove the rock, because the steep
ness of the cliff gave them small
chance for a foothold. Steel bars were
placed under the powders, ropes at
tached and orders were about to be
given to haul away when the lad
yelled to Tonvey:
Il am on my back with my feet and
right arm caught. If you move the
rock to the left l can get out If
you move it the other way it will
smash me all up
Tonvey followed the boys directions
and when the rock was lifted four
inches the boy scrambled out Then
investigation showed that had his di-
rections not been followed he would
have been killed in the rescue.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03
For the Hostess.

If making the coffee at the table
remember there is right and wrong
way of making and serving coffee
Have the coffee machine and tea ket.
tie on the table. Both should be placed
on the tray at the foot of the table be-
fore the hostess, the tea kettle at the
head of the plate and the coffee pot
at the right of the plate. Fill the un.
der part of the coffee pot with boiling
water, put the necessary amount of
coffee in the glass top and properly
adjust it. Light the alcohol burner be-
meath and the coffee will be prepared
in few minutes. There are methods
for making this by electricity, though
the above method is more in use.
Serve the coffee black with miniature
pitchers filled with cream topped with
whipped cream.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03
A BOSTON EXAMPLE.

The president in his recent message
gives an illustration of trust methods.
He tells of Boston's experience with a
combination which secured control of
the market. He says:
Allegations are often made to the
effect that there is no real need for
these laws looking to the more effec-
tive control of the great corporations,
upon the ground that they will do their
work we'll without such control. call
your attention to the accompanying
copy of report just submitted by Mr.
Nathan Matthews, chairman of the
finance commission, to the mayor and
city council of Boston, relative to GER
tain evil practices of various corpora
tons which have been bidders for fur
nishing to the city iron and steel This
report shows that there have been ex-
tensive combinations formed among
the various corporations which have
business within the city of Boston. in.
Guiding. for instance, carefully
planned combination embracing all the
firms and corporations engaged in
structural steel work in New England.
This combination included substantial.
ly all the local concerns, and many of
the largest corporations in the United
States, engaged in manufacturing or
furnishing structural steel for use in
any part of New England; it affected
the states, the cities and towns, the
railroads and street railways, and gen
orally all persons in that section of the
country. AS regards the city of Bos-
ton, the combination resulted in par
ceiling out the work by collusive bids,
plainly dishonest. and supported by
false affirmation.
81 have submitted this report to the
department of justice for thorough in
vestigation and for action if action
shall prove practicable.
Surely such state of affairs as
that above set forth emphasizes the
need OF further federal legislation, not
uerely because of the material hem
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03
SUICIDE QUEEN
CAN'T KILL SELF
HANGING, SHOOTING, DROWNING
AND POISON HAVE ALL
PROVEN UNSUCCESSFUL.
HAS SOUGHT DEATH rs TIMES
Suffering from MelanchoIia, cincin-
natl Girl, During a Period of
Three Years, Has Made Re-
peated Attempts on Life.

Observation-Disclosures who have
studied the case of Eta Saulters, a
young woman, who attempted suicide
&c times, say suicide is a disease and
that it is infectious. This theory is
ndorsed by others who have given
the subject study.
The case of Miss Saulters, who has
been dubbed the suicide queen" by
he police and newspapers, is a re-
markable one.
Her 26 attempts at suicide cover a
period of nearly three years and she
has adopted a great variety of meth
DDS of self-slaughter, none of which
has proven successful.
That she will kill herself ultimately
those who know her believe She is
still in the bloom of youth. Her beauty
still remains. She is intelligent and
capable. Yet she has moments when,
with no apparent reason save melan-
chOly life is too heavy a burden. She
seeks death with the same intensity
that some men and women seek drugs
and StimulantS.
When not suffering from acute mel
ancholy she is reticent about the strug-
giles she has made to rid herself of
life.
She has been taken into custody
many times on charges of attempting
to commit suicide She recently ad-
mitted 10 Police Judge Louder, when
arraigned, that. this practice on her
part had resulted in "a arrests, 16
workhouse sentences and four terms,
all short, in the county Jail. She also
had been sent to the City hospital as
many as 20 times.
One night, about three years ago
a young woman. her hair blowing in
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03
WALKS THREE MILES ASLEEP.
English Girl Scales Wall of Garden
Without Waking.

London.-Lying on the grass in a
walled-in garden, of which the door
was locked, a girl of Is, Miss Amy
Parker was found unconscious and in
night attire early on a recent morn
ing near Wellington, Shropshire. A
blanket, pair of slippers, eyeglasses
and a skirt were found beside her,
while she clasped shilling in her
hand
She remembers absolutely nothing
of how she came to be where she was
found. She seemed in good health
on the previous night, but was gone
from her home when the maid went
to call her in the morning. 1t appears
that she walked no fewer than three
miles while fast asleep
How she got out of the house is
mystery, as the door was found locked
in the morning. Miss Parker was
very short-sighted, yet must, in her
sleep. have climbed wall which she
would have found difficulty to scale
in the day time and in possession of
every faculty. Her mind Is a COM
plete blank for the entire night.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03

Another good action to indulge in
while occupying this position is, with
your two hands strongly clenched,
press upon the abdomen firmly, causing
the subjacent parts to yield to the
pressure. This action may be contin-
ued for several minutes over the
whole region of the abdomen. This
action excites the muscular contrac-
tility of the tube
Another action having the same eff
feet as the above is: With the pres
sure of the hands, follow the course of
the colon, beginning low upon the
right side of the abdomen, passing
around beneath the stomach, and ter
minating on the side opposite. This
circular stroking may be continued for
several minutes. Follow this move
ment with the pressure exercise under
the short ribs. The ends of the fingers
are applied from below, and strong
pressure made with a tremulous mo-
ton. This exercise excites muscular
and nervous action in the organs
reached.
The second exercise is one taken
while occupying a kneeling position.
The arms are in an angle position
elbow bent, while the upper arm is
near the side parallel with the body
The knees are wide apart, and the
trunk leaning back from the perpen-
dicular.
The arms are slowly stretched up
wards until they become parallel with
each other, and in line with the
body. Retain this position for a short
time-then allow them to Slowly re-
turn to the commencing position.
Repeat this action ten or twelve
times, using care that the erms are
stretched so that they ere exactly in
line with the reclining trunk.
This exercise may be varied, when
the arms are stretched, by permitting
the trunk to lean as far back as posi-
BILE, then sway from side to side
bending only at the waist line.
The effect of this action is far
reaching, noticeably in the arms, tho
top of the shoulders, the region be-
meath the shoulder blades, the sides of
the chest, the diaphragm, the abdo.
minal muscles, as well as the visceral
organs, which are raised by 1t and
moderately compressed. = Harrie
Coates.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03

Various causes can be attributed to
the stomach and abdominal disorders
which are so prevalent to-day. 1t can
safely be said that one of the greatest
is ill-ftting corsets and tight lacing,
causing displacement of the various
organs and not permitting them to
grow as nature intended them to. Any
woman desires a shapely form, but
let her attain it in a natural way-eat-
ing properly, living rightly and by sys-
tematic exercise
How few women have proper diges-
ton? One great cause of sluggish di-
gestion is the imperfect removal, both
of waste and of residual
Since motion of the organs is nee
essary part of their function, no res
toration of digestive power is possible
that does not also include the restora-
ton of this mechanical or muscular
property.
Many motions may be given to ones
digestive organs suited to different
constitutions, conditions OF disease,
development of the region, strength of
the individual, etc. The following ex-
efcises have been carefully selected,
which, if not entirely applicable for a
given case, may prove suggestive of
some other that may act more to the
purpose.
The first exercise is given in a
standing position, the body slightly
bent forward. with corsets and all
tight-ftting clothes removed The ac-
ton is, the extended hands are made
to strike the frontal regions of the
body, striking alternately with each
hand with such force and speed as to
produce no unpleasant sensations.
If there be a point where pain is
felt, the action, at each successive ex.
ercise, should for period be given to
surrounding parts, approaching the
tender part gradually until the pain
disappears. -
The above may be continued until
the entire frontal region has been
traversed, and repeated as often as
one deems practical.
A more vigorous treatment may be
given by using the doubled fist instead
of the fiat hand in striking. However
it is better to begin by using the open
hand.
This treatment is an unusually good
one to assist in promoting absorption
or removing congestion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03
BOY CAUGHT BY STONE
DIRECTS OWN RESCUE
TELLS FIREMEN HOW TO RE-
MOVE FOUR-TON BOWLDER
THAT HOLDS HIM.

New York.-Nicholas Buckstein, II
years old, owes his life as much to his
own GOODNESS as to the efforts of fire
men who dug him out of small tun-
mel in cliff 40 feet above One Hun
dred and Fifty-second street, in which
he was pinned by four-ton bowlder.
Buckstein and other boys made a
playground of what they called Nc
Combs mountain, a rocky cliff in
West One Hundred and Fifty-second
street, between Seventh avenue and
McComb's Dam road. Here the rock
rises at an angle of approximately 60
degrees from the street, and on the
summit the boys built stone forts. Re-
Gently they decided to become cave
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03
Would.Re Suicides Nerve.

Baraboo, Wis.-Because his newly
purchased revolver failed to kill him
when he attempted suicide, Nathan
Wood returned it to the store and de
manded his money back in accord
ance with an agreement made wher
he bought the weapon that it would
work right" or the cash would be re
fundsS.
Wood succeeded in inf1icting only
a flesh wound on himself. He got his
money back.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03

nts such legislation will secure, but
above all because this federal action
should be part, and a large part, of
the campaign to waken our people as a
whole to lively and effective condem-
nation Of the low standard of morality
implied in such conduct on the part of
great business concerns. The first
duty of every man is to. provide a live
lihood for himself and for those de-
pendent upon him; it is from every
standpoint desirable that each of our
citizens should endeavor by hard work
and honorable methods to secure for
him and his such competence as will
carry with it the opportunity to enjoy
in reasonable fashion the comforts az!
retlnements of life; and, Furthermore,
the man of great business ability who
obtains fortune in upright fashion in
evitably in so doing confers a benefit
upon the community as a whole and
is entitled to reward. to respect, and
to admiration. But among the many
kinds of evil, social, industrial and po-
htical, which it is our duty as a nation
sternly to combat, there IS none at the
same time more base and more dan
gerous than the greed which treats
the plain and simple rules of honesty
with cynical contempt if they inter
fere with making profit; and as ma
ton we cannot be held guiltless if we
condone such action. The man who
breaches hatred of wealth honestly &C.
CURED, who inculcates envy and jeal-
ousy and slanderous i'll will toward
those of his fellows who by thrift,
energy and industry have become men
of means, is a menace to the COM
munity.'
This is splendid illustration of the
manner in which the public is robbed
by private monopoly. 1t is time that
the private monopoly was extermi-
mated, for its determination, instead Of
destroying business, will revive bust
ness and at the same time relieve the
public from one of it's greatest men-
aces.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03
THE GREAT POLITICAL THOUGHT.

The greatest political thought in the
world is that embodied in the declara-
ton of independence, namely, that
all men are created equal This is the
basis of popular government, and
popular government is spreading. It
does not mean that men are, or will
be. equal in physical strength, in in
tellectual ability, in moral character
or in wealth-it simply means that
God never gave to one human being
a natural right that He denied to any
other human being. and that in the
contemplation OF government, all must
stand equal before the law Out of
this basic principle. all other political
principles grow and by it all methods
of government and all policies must
be measured.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03
Tries Suicide 20 Times.

curls. dashed along Sixth street She
trians paused She stopped at a cor
ner, lifted a hand to her lips, uttered
a prolonged moan and lunged forward
on the sidewalk.
Many persons rushed to her. They
found her lips scared with acid, and
fragments of a half-ounce bottle that
contained the drug lay scattered about
ner. An ambulance was called and
she was hurried to the hospital, where
prompt treatment saved her life From
that evening her attempts to commit
suicide became frequent.
Five times since her first attempt
she has tried carbolic acid. She has
also taken laudanum, paris green,
arsenic and other poisons.
One morning pedestrians and resi-
dents in the same neighborhood were
terrified as body shot from high
window. Bruised, MANNED and uncon-
scious, it lay on the sidewalk. The
policeman thought her dead, and
called the patrol wagon. But before
II arrived he sent in another call, this
time for an ambulance.
1t seemed as if the idea of suicide
took possession of her every time she
had the blues" Trouble or worry,
real or imaginary, seemed, in her
state of mind, to call for a revolver, a
moose, vial of poison or the waters
of river. But success always eluded
her in the seeking after death.
Usually some policeman happened
along in the nick of time to cut her
down or to rush her off to the hos
pital if she had taken poison.
At other times she has been arrest
ed at her own request when the sui
cidal impulse was working within her
and she was striving to resist it The
police, realizing her situation, always
locked her up when she made such a
request.
The police warned every druggist in
Cincinnati not to sell poison to the
woman in quantities large enough to
produce death. She circumvented that
strategy by going from one pharmacy
10 another, buying small amount of
poison at each until she had enough
to cause the death of several persons
At last the police had to order the
druggists to refuse her poison.
A covetous man makes no friends
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03
cretonne ParasoIs.

Cretonne is very popular this season
Tor evening coats and vests, as an ap-
plique, and now cretonne parasols are
prescribed for morning wear. The de-
sign must, of course, be reasonably
small, and the only decoration is tho
heavy cotton fringe around the border.
Of course the handle on such a very
serviceable sunshade would be o.
plainest wood, leaving the more elah-
crate sticks for more dressy parasoi6