Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-06

ana NlClulIy are IdklHS 10 the uIllS pe-
cause of a threatening flood. 1t is sur
prising, with foundations almost reg
ular annual events, that people will cling
to the soil along the banks of uncontrol-
liable streams.
Raisuli, the Moroccan bandit, must
have been informed as to the success of
pugilists and others who take to the
stage; for it is announced that he pur-
poses 10 do 50 himself This reveals the
secret of the capture and holding of Caid
Harry Mclean.
Tom Longboat, the Indian who is to
represent Canada in the Olympic games
in London, next summer, has just beaten
three men running in relay, in a ten-mile
contest. This may convince the foreign
runners that it is almost useless to put
on their racing ''togs" against the Amer
lean Indian.
Rawhide is the name of the new Ne
vada mining camp to which gold-seekers
are rushing in numbers which recall the
Klondike and Goldfelds stampedes.
Rawness is characteristic of life in
mushroom mining cities, but the rawhide
has no place in the settlement of dis
putes, which generally evoke "gun play"
The Chicago Vacant Lot Association
has adopted plans for improving and
beautifying vacant lots and at the same
time providing work for the unemployed.
II is estimated that there are 5000 acres
of vacant lots in Chicago. Now there
will be curiosity to observe whether the
activity of the Association ever gets be-
yond the resolution stage.
The fatality incident to the burning
of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
house at Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York, recalls sad incidents IN the past
due to the rapid destruction of inflam-
mable buildings. University fraternjties
which have in view the construction Of
frat houses" to serve as dormitofics
should refrain from such enterprises UNI
Ill their funds are sufficient to secure
buildings proof against fire.
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Hunters ought to be stirred to action
by the report from the north woods"
that the deer are being slaughtered in
great numbers by hungry wolves which
run over the crusty snow and capture
the tloundering deer. A grand roundup
of wolves would be rare winter sport,
and those who took part in it would
have the satisfaction of knowing that
they were contributing to the safety of
game for the benefit of hunting i'll the
future.
During the month of January, 1908,
a new high record was esta blished by
the United States in the export of food
stuffs, cotton and petroleum. The aggre-
gate value of shipments of these coin-
modities for the month was $12S,000,-
o00--S17 T42 900 more than for the cor
responding month last year. Forei n,
money money paid for American prod
uets without which foreign countries can
not get along is pouring like oil into the
wounds made by the panic.
San Francisco announces that the last
ease of the bubonic plague at thar place
has been cured, and the patient dis
charged from the hospital. But the war
against the rats which spread the disease
VIII be continued in the interest of safety
in the future. This is wise course be-
cause the great Pacific coast port is il
close touch with the Orient, and tie rats
are liable to acquire additions ~ the
escape of foreign rats from meFcnant-
mtn discharging at the docks.
The government is now ready to sup
ply 100000 National Guardsmen with as
many new higb-powered army rifles or
muskets. The weapon is the army rife
of 1903 rechamhered for the ammunition
of 1906, which drives new sharply
pointed light steel-clad bullet with an
enormous range and fiat trajectory. The
distribution of these rifles will inspire
National Guardsmeu with pride, as the
citizen soldiery always feels that it
should be armed with up-to-date rifles.
There will be no scarcity of ice during
the summer of 1905, as the harvesters
are gathering in a large amount of
clear product fully eighteen inches thick.
But a reported discovery from Arcola,
Illinois, is worthy of remembrance for
future emergencies. The owner of a
hay press at that place has been con.
verting snow into blocks Of ice by com.
preston. and declares that the ice thus
produced is better than that which Is
sawed from the surface OF lakes am
rivers.
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DIR. Julian L, Thomas. the New York
aeronaut declares that the grip, scarlet
fever and diphtheria can be circumvcnt.
ed by drying washing with balloons. IL,
suggests that every laundry secure bal,
looms and send up strings of wet clothing