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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-03-12
Colorado Midland Ry.

fort. The result is that they reach
their journeys end in good humor, by
reason Of having enjoyed their trip.
Often they desire to make stop at
Manitou. Glenwood Springs or other
notable resorts where there are plenty
Of historic sights. During these stop
overs many Of the colonists avail them
selves Of the opportunity to see more
of the state by going on the various
excursions out Of Denver and Colorado
Springs, and there are frequent cases
Of families remaining in Colorado.
though ticketed further west. Why do
we pay such marked attention to this
particular class Of passenger travel!
Because we recognize in them the
coming giants Of the commercial
world in the territory they are headed
for; the next generation will hail them
as pioneers, and their children's chill
dren will sing the praises Of their con-
lquests."
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-03-12
Colorado Midland Ry.

all there is to see in the Rocky Noun
tains. AS a general rule We find them
fairly well posted on the territory over
which they are travelling, as they near
ly all write for literature weeks before
starting. But reading about and act
ually seeing II are two different propo-
sitions. Often we get as many as four
and five tourist carloads OF passengers
from a given point in Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas or Oklahoma. Land agents get
a line on few families who cOntem-
plate making a change. then they go
into the territory with literature and
work up additional interest. When we
receive the cars here at Denver, the
passengers are taken In hand and
treated as guests. In cases Of one or
more cars from the same locality, we
manage TO send a personal conductor
over the line, whose business 1t is to
entertain the people. point out the
scenery, answer questions and contrib
ute in every known way to their com.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-03-12
FROM ROUTE ;.


Farmers are all busy in this To-
cality.
Master George Peake caught
two large fat ground hogs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Miller have
moved onto the Goodeagle land.
Mrs. Owen McCauley has been
quite sick.
Mr.. Bell has George Owens
canvassing for him.
Our farmer has been branding
his cattle to turn on the range.
Where is the range now? All
farms and pastures.
Mrs. Steve Balser has another
granddaughter.
Charlie Wright writes to his
mother his game rooster won the
battle in K. C.
This country needs a religion
that will make men pay their
debts; promises won't buy bread
or pay house rent.
Where il the old fashioned wo-
man who never heard of bridge
whist, and who never plays eu-
chre for prizes? Are they among
the mud daubers on Five Mile?
While playing Thursday even
ing Everett Ewers threw a rock
and accidentally struck his BROTH
,er. Charlie; made a bad cut on
his eye; three stitches had to be
taken.
Silence is golden, but few peo-
pie are burdened with gold.
Pitching horse shoe is one of
the pleasures on Little Five Mile.
Mrs. Maggie Mcdonald and
little SON drove to Galena Satur-
day.
What is a man when he forgets
his wife and children in Galena
Saturday evening, but he got the
booze.
Gull Baker called on Gregg
Ewers Friday to see about his
horses which have been in his
stalk field all winter.
Mr.. Bell delivered his pictures
Saturday, if it did rain. All are
very much pleased with his work.
His studio will be in Galena as
we'll as Joplin in the future.
Luther Enyart was on the creek
Monday.
George Chips of Chetopa is
visiting his brother-in-law.
George Brown had business on
the creek Tuesday.
Lawrence Stroup had business
in Galena Saturday.
Ellis Conner dined with George
Peake Sunday.
Our heart aches for those loved
ones of Amos Valliere. He was a
friend to the adopted members of
the Quapaws and was truthful.
If his tribe had only seen his
worth and had him, as councillor
instead of some one else they
woald be better of today, and so
would he.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-03-12
LTe be. Continued
[nablished February. a.. 1905
>. NOTICE.

!. Notice Is hereby given that I have msds
application 70 itbe probate court Of chsro-
kss county; Kansas. for a druggists Psr-
nit td'ssll Intoxicating liquors Cor medical.
mechanical, and scientific purposes, At my
plsce Of business on lots Z and ., in block
y. original plat. Baxter Spring, Kans'A
Said, application win be heard At the once
of the probate judge in Columbus, Kan
sas. on Nondsy, March %. Ieos. At go
O'Clock p m. A. z. CARNEY.
.f Applicant.
AZ Erssbyfsrian chnrp4,
Services By Rev. Jas. Tanner.
Baptist minister. the second'
SUNDAY Il ZACH rhofiA.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
JAPS AS ATHLETES,
Their Love OF Wrestling Keeps Them
I'm Primo Physical Condition.

Their Love OF Wrestling Keeps Them
in Primo Physical Condition.
1t is probably generally known that
the Japanese are an athletic loving race
and that for hundreds of years they
have kept in splendid physical condi-
ton, and that through training they
preserve their health until late in life.
In that land it is regarded as almost
crime not to be physically sound. The
Jap is by nature small Of stature and
slender of build, but usually he possess
es body without a physical defect
Prior to the war he waged with the
Chinese he had absolutely no standing
as a fighting man, either as an indi-
vidual or as a nation. But by that con-
test, in which he showed his superiority
over the Chinese in a most unmistak-
able manner, he attracted the attention
of the fighting men of other nations.
But he appeared so small, so insignifi-
cant, that most men of bigger bodies
and bigger nations refused to consider
him as being entitled to the claim Of
fighter. At least he wasn't in the same
class with the heavyweights. True, he
had walloped the pig-talled Chinaman,
but who couldn't do that? AS a result
he was ignored. He would have to
prove his mettle in contest with some
other fighting race beside that of the
laundrymen.
The scrap which was to decide wheth-
er the featherweight Jap was to enter
the heavyweightclass came sooner than
was expected. Russia, the bully of Eu-
rope, and q foe which other heavy
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
Reward for Quick wit.

At a certain Maine summer resort
was staying last summer an old gen.
tleman who had become noted for his
little sermons" to people. 1t was also
said that he was not over and above
generous with his cash. One day when
being carried on the elevator to his
room he asked the boy in charge:
'My boy, do you believe in the up
lifting Of mankindW
mo, not since I've taken this job,
replied the lad with a twinkle in his
eye.
Whereupon the old gentleman, so
pleased was he with the quick wit of
the youngster, thrust his hand into
his pocket and handed over a 50-cent
piece.
Naturally the lad boosted to the 9th
er boys that Mr.. So and So had given
him tip Of half dollar.
They declared he was only guying
them; that man was too stingy to give
q cent to anyone. But the elevator
boy came out ahead. A day or two
after the old gentleman happened to
appear on the scene where a group of
the hotel boys were talking.
Quick as a flash the elevator boy
stepped up and told him that the boys
wouldn't believe that he had given him
80 cents and asked him if he would
kindly tell them the truth Of the mat
ter. The man appreciated the joke.
Putting his hand on the lads shoulder,
he informed the other boys that they
had been rightly Informed and while
doing so he fshed into his pocket again
and took a quarter and handed 1t to
his friend of the Standardization
(Mel Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
BREAK POWDER RECORD.

Thirty-Seven Tons of Dynamite Made
in Ten Hours at Washburn Plant.
Turning out 7440O pounds of finished
dynamite in one day, the mixing house
at the plant of the Du Pont de Nemours
Powder Company, near Washburn, smash
ed the worlds record for powder making,
the mixing house turning out nfnety-three
mixings, which is the largest number
ever sent out from any one plant in ten
hours in the world. Each mixing weighs
about 800 pounds, which in all would
make something over thirty tons of
finished dynamite in bulk. Ninety one
mixings has heretofore been the highest
record, this being made at the plant at
Barksdale by Arnold Hustlund just be-
fore he was killed in the explosion some
time ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
Wisconsin
State News
WISCONSIN BOOSTS RAIL TAX.
.~O~~~~~~

Board of Assessments Increases VAL
uatiOn of Roads by $13,111,5 800.
The Wisconsin State board of asse S.
ments announced that it had fixed the
valuation of the property of the railroad
companies in this State at $26S,961 800,
an increase of $13, 800 over that of
last year. The taxes of the roads during
the coming year will be about $2945, 262,
an increase of $143,577 The largest IN
crease was $5,S0O000 in the case of the
Chicago and Northwestern. The Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul gets boost
ed $3,100,O00. The valuations placed on
some of the big roads are +: Chicago and
Northwestern, 100000; Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul, $50, 100000; Oma-
ha, $27,000,000; Wisconsin Central, &c.
100000. The assessment of the telegraph
companies also was announced. The to-
tai value of this property is placed at
$2,O55,0 900, a decrease of 100000 from
that of last year. The property of The
Western Union was fixed at $1,S00,000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
ALL OVER THE STATE.

Matthew Raglan, father of William III.
Raglan of Pine Grove, was found dead.
rife had been discharged and the bullet
penetrated the head.
If the Racine board of education has
its way the curfew law will again be
revived in the city and children will be
forced to HE for home at night before
the hour of o'clock.
John Shuber, county pioneer who
came to Manitowoc seventeen years ago,
dieG suddenly, aged 70. Shuber came to
the county % years ago and resided on a
farm in the town of Kossuth.
Smallpox has broken out in Chadbourne
Hail. a dormitory for women students at
the University of Wisconsin, and 100
young women have been ordered yaccinat-
ed and to leave for their homes.
Bananas will hereafter be sold in La
Crosse by the pound. This is the ruling
that has been made by the Retail Grocers'
Association. The grocers buy by weight
and they are now going to sell by weight.
The State Supreme Court has held that
the Wisconsin sleeping car law is uncon-
stitutional. The decision is based on the
ground that the law is not a valid exer-
else of the police powers; that it leaves
to the occupant of the lower berth to de-
eide whether or not the upper shall be
closed or open, instead of absolutely re-
curing an unOccupied berth to be closed.
Skin grating had to be resorted to to
save the eyesght of Emil Wach, the
Northwestern car repairer, who was
burned by acid at ManitowOc a few weeks
ago Wach was operated on at Chicago
and skin was grated from his leg to the
face and for the forehead and it is now
said that he has a good chance of recov-
cry and will be able to see without de-
feet.
William MacAiller of Ashland had an
exciting encounter with a bear He shot
two cubs and their mother attacked him.
lie put shot through her. whereupon
she seized his arm and lacerated it badly
before he could fire the finishing shot A
fourth bear appeared and he shot it dead
in its tracks. 1t weighed 219 pounds.
MacAIiller brought the carcasses of the
four bears home.
That life insurance companies which
are authorized to do business in this State
and which cease to write policies under
the new insurance laws after Dec 81,
may legally collect premiums Though
their present offices or agents in this State
until their licenses expire on March l, is
the gist of an opinion rendered by the
Attorney General in answer to a query
from the State insurance commissioner.
Two pickerel were caught on lines
through the ice at Pewaukee. One meas
ured , feet 10 inches the other 3 feet 8
inches The two together weighed over
forty pounds. They are the largest pick
erel caught in the Naukesha county lakes
this year.
Theodore Dunke of Marinette. Is years
old, escaped death because he wore six
shirts The youth was hunting rabbits
with his uncle, John Dunke, when the
latter accidentally discharged his gun.
The charge of shot struck young Dunke,
but his heavy clothing so broke its force
that his injuries are not serious.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
CUTTING STEEL WITH YARN.
Prisoner Cuts One Bar in 10 Hours
and Another in Hours.

Prisoner Cuts One Bar in 10 Hours
and Another in 5 Hours.
What the drop of water does to the
hardest stone is only a circumstance
to what a thread of yarn can accom-
plish.
Major McClaughry, warden of the
Federal prison at Fort Leavenworth
once found a prisoner who was sup
posed to be pounding stone working
away at one of the bars to an outside
window.
The man finally admitted what he
was doing and was induced to give q
demonstration. A grating of the
same description was placed in his
cell, says Popular Mechanics, and a
guard stationed over him to exact the
proof of the statement.
With the limestone dust and sill
cate from the stone pile, the yarn
from his sock and little water this
man cut the bessemer steel bar in
eighteen working hours. With soma
fine emery, a chalk line, and two
wooden handholds to save his fing-
ers he made the other clean cut of
the bar in five hours, proving the
matter to the guards satisfaction.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
JOKE TAKES SERIOUS TURN.

University Student Nearly browns
Through Act OF Friend.
Robert McNaughton of Kaukauna, son
of the wealthy manufacturer who died re-
Gently, was pushed into the swimming
tank at the Lawrence gymnasium in Ap-
plcton, and to rescue him from drowning
Roy Achtenberg of Rice Lake was obliged
to jump into twelve feet of water with
out divesting himself of his clothing. The
two students had been joking each other
and Achtenberg not aware that Nc
Naughton could not swim, pushed him in
to the tank. In moment he realized the
danger, and leaped in just in time to save
his fellow-Students life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
TO BAR FRAUDS FROM MAILS.

English Postal Authorities Learn q
Trick from Uncle Sam.
1t is generally maintained by En-
glishmen that the postoffice business is
better managed in England than in
America. There are not a few Ameri-
cans who express this opinion. 1t is
with an agreeable shock of surprise,
therefore, one learns that many En-
glishmen are now conceding that John
Bulls postOffice can learn something
from Uncle Sans much-maligned insti-
tuition, says the Kansas City Star. And
that is the method it adopts to check
wholesale swindling Of the public by
rejecting the mail of fraudulent con-
Germs. Some influential folk are now
agitating for the passage Of a law
which will confer similar blacklisting
powers.
For years past the united kingdom
has been happy hunting ground for
the fraudulent concerns which have
been driven out Of the United States
and other countries. They are register
ed there as American companies, but
their whole business Is done in En-
gland, for the simple reason that their
native country has closed It's mails
against them. Abroad they have an
absolutely free hand and are doing a
booming business. Some of the English
better-class Journals take every Oppor-
tunity Of exposing them, but the news
papers Of the largest circulation ac-
cept their advertisements and preserve
a discreet silence concerning their in
EQUITIES. And the postoffice aids and
abets them by accepting all their CORE
spondence.
There is a notorious English comic
weekly which devotes a whole page to
offending advertisements. 1t would
have to suspend publication at once
or amend Its ways If the postoffice re-
fused to transmit it through the mails.
The amount Of sWindling which Is
carried on through fake circulars, let
tiers and newspaper advertisements in
England Is appalling. The police are
powerless to deal with the offenders
owing to the peculiar nature Of the En-
glish criminal procedure and 1t is real
Iy only through the postofice that they
can be driven out of business.
1t is interesting to note in this con-
nection that whereas England has been
slow In following the example Of I'm
Gle Sam in dealing with the evil, her
colonies have not. Australia already
has n law which enables her DOStOffice
to reject the correspondence of fraud
ulent concerns, and New Zealand has
recently followed suit. A 'black list"
just published by the New Zealand
postoffice contained the names Of more
than thirty firms or individuals who
are forbidden to use the mails for
business purposes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
Nj soul.


NY Soul sto0d barred to the sight OF
men,
Ny Soul stood firm: It knew no fear,
For the blame of man could not be
just,
The mind of man could not under
stand.
Ny Soul stood bare in the sight of a
child,
It stood condemned: for it stood per-
csived,
Fer the blame of child is the blame
Of Truth,
Tho the heart of a child may not
understand.
Ny Soul stood bare in the sight Of
God,
And my Soul rejoiced in its helpless
ness,
For the blame of God was forgiveness,
The Mercy of God could understand.
Edward P. Gilchrist, in Harper's
Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
APPLETON GETS TRACTION COIN.

City Receives Over $500. Its Share
of COmpany's Gross Receipts.
The annual report of the gross earn
ings of the Wisconsin Traction, Light,
Heat and Power Company has been fled
by Secretary Henry d. Smith and the
city of Appleton paid $2,474.S1, the city's
share of the gross receipts at 215 per
cent. The gross receipts from the inter
urban line between Neenah and Kaukau-
ma, 1915 miles, were $1OS, 72S.91, and the
gross receipts for furnishing light and
power and rentals in Appleton were 500
761.S4, giving Appleton $1,394.05.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
Card Playing Taught In Schools.

Card playing has become so general
among German women of the upper
classes than regular lessons in playing
are now given in all fashionable board
ing schools for girls.
The education Of a German girl is
not considered complete unless she has
acquired the knowledge Of how to take
a hand at bridge, ecarte or one Of the
other games now in vogue. Gambling
has increased to an alarming extent,
Many households, not content with the
elements Of chance in card playing,
have introduced miniature roulette and
other Monte Carlo games into their
drawing rooms and the stakes are high.
London Evening Standard.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
How Some Ships Are Lost.

The Jess of many English fishing
boats is now said to be due to the
fact that the helmsmen often carries
a specially forged fisherman's knife.
These knives possess strong mag.
netic properties and will defect a
COMPASS needle two or three points
This means that the helmsman may
be apparently steaming true course
but is in reality much out of the way.
-Springfield Republican.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
WOULD LOCATE BY LAW.

Superior Lumberman InvOIxes Aid OF
Discovery Statute to Get $4,000.
Warren e. McCord of Superior, one of
the northwest's well-known lumbermen, is
trying to collect about $4,000 from VIM.
McKinnon and III. S. Ackley of Chippewa
Falls, and under the discovery statute
is trying to locate some of their property.
The $4,000 is judgment received in the
State Supreme Court last summer by Mr..
McCOrd in Il litigation which has lasted
over fifteen years and had been tried three
times in the Circuit Court, three times in
the State Supreme Court and once in the
United States Supreme Court.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01

a person of Importance, and is shown
the same esteem and Difference as a
statesman or successful soldier. Nat
urally the contests are awaited with
eager interest, and great crowds throng
the arenas. These exhibitions keep the
public in touch with the achievements
Of the leaders in athletics, and afford
worthy models for emulation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01

Plans for structure to replace the
Great Northern elevator in Superior,
burned about a month ago, are in the
hands of engineers. The elevator will
be built on the steel tank plan and it is
expected to be of over 100000 bushels
capacity.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
TO WORK sAUK COUNTY MINE.

international Harvester Company to
Reopen North Freedom Plant.
Operations in the international Har-
vester COmpany's mine at North Free
dom, which has been under water for a
month past, have been resumed. Explor-
alton work with diamond and churn drills
continues with much energy. Six drills
on the Voeck farm are in operation day
and night.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
TO WIPE OUT ALL DIVES.
Brewers Will Work to that End
Accuse Drink Manufacturers.

Brewers Will Work to that End
Accuse Drink Manufacturers.
Alleging that the Milwaukee brewers,
By underselling local brewers throughout
tie State, are contributing to the growth
of the low dives and saloons, the WiscOn-
sin Brewers Association, which closed a
meeting in Madison recently, is making
an effort to get all the brewers in the
State, outside of Milwaukee, together to
prevent this competition. The fear is ex-
pressed that the existence of the low dives
and saloons will 80 far to prejudice the
people against the liquor traffic, and the
belief seems to prevail that the only thing
for the brewers to do to protect their in
terests is to reach an agreement. This
agreement, it is said, will result in an adj
vance in the price of beer in several sec
tions of the state.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
wants Low Fares in La Crosse.

State Senator Thomas Morris has filed
with the State railroad commission de
mand for 3-cent fares in La Crosse, i'm
proved service and greater care for pas
scnger safety. Senator Morris set forth
that the company was making enormous
profits upon the capital invested.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
CATCH ALLEGED THIEVES.

Capture Made in Kaukauna Round
house May Lead to Other Arrests.
In the arrest of Tony Budweiser and
John Cherveney, former employees of the
Chicago and Northwestern road at the
roundhouse in Kaukauna, the police be-
lieve that they have the ringleaders of the
gang of copper thieves whose depreda-
tions have resulted in thousands of
pounds of copper and brass disappearing.
The men were caught in the roundhouse
by a deputy sheriff and upwards of 100
poynds of brass and copper fittings were
found in bags they carried.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
COMPARISON of Life.

"Life is like getting a telephone num-
Der from the information bureau" said
the woman. when you have waited
and waited till you are so tired you
don't know what to do and don't caro-
much whether you get it or not, they
call you up and gift 1t to YOU"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
waupun Convict Kills Self.

Henry Erickson of Readstown. serving
a seven years term in Waupun for shoot
ing his sister, Mrs. Henry Froese, com
mitted suicide.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
stevens Point Fur Dealer Dies.

John C. Campbell. leading hide end
fur dealer, died in Stevens Point, of par
alysis. aged 30 years. He leaves a WIFE
daughter and son, the latter being Dr.
&. f. Campbell of Racine.