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The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
BARADOO TEAM SECOND
Gem City and Reedsburg Teams Take
Second and Third Places at
Madison.

The. Baraboo M. w. A. drill team
has returned from the contest at Madi-
son, where it was we'll shown that the
Sauk county teams are not to be
sneezed at.
In the first place one of the teams
contesting holds the record for seventh
place in the United States. That is the
Madison team. 1t took the first place.A
Reedsburg man was on for inspection,
and although the Baraboo team was
taken by surprise by his way of inspect
ing ,and although the ground on which
the drilling took place was unfavorable
in some respects the Gem City repre-
sentatives held strong and got second
place. Reedsburg took third place.
Baraboo and Reedsburg made very
good showings. The prizes were Mad
ison, $50; Baraboo, $30;and Reedsburg,
$40. The Madison Royal Neighbors
won in their contest with the prize of
S25.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
CORNER STONE LAID
New M. E. Church Scene OF Formal
Services-1,O 900 People
Present

Reedsburg July 3O-The ceremony
for the laying of the corner stone for
the new M. E. church took place last
evening at eight o'clock.
The present pastor, Rev. Kundert,
with his untiring energy and faithful
work has enlivened a new interest in
the doings of the church and through
his efforts, combined with those of the
members, they will soon have a fine
new editice in which to worship.
The address was delivered by Rev.
Geo. Merrifield of the Platteville dis
trict, assisted by w. Vance of the La
Crosse district and Rev. Cooper and
son of Elroy.
Among the archives placed beneath
the corner stone was very fine letter
written by Thomas r. White, former
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
this place, especially for this occasion.
Rev. Vance of the La Crosse district
placed the articles inside the box.
UA1C0C WCAC OAAC 4CSOAOG Va WIG
church since 1850, the names of our
president, governor, and mayor at the
present time; also the names of the
members of the church now holding
office.
Some rare coins presented by A. s.
Brooks, photo of the church built in
1873, and several other things.
The evening was very warm but
fully 1000 people witnessed the laying
of the corner stone, which was of fine
Wisconsin granite and presented TO
the church by the present mayor, s.
A. Collins. .....
The ministers present were:
Rev. Haight, Ashland district.
Fl. E. Straw, Eau Claire district.
w. H. Vance, La Crosse district.
Rev. Truesdale, Madison district and
Geo. Merrifeld, Platteville district,
presiding elders.
Rev. CroWder of BaraDoo.
The dimensions of the church are
69x89 feet.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
STONE THROWN
THROUGH SKYL|GHT
VANOALIsMpF THE MIDDLEAeEs
REPEATED d IN BARABOO AT
DEAD OF NIGHT
BOULDERS AS BIG AS FISTS
Nav Have Been Hurled From Fourth
Street Opposite the Gallery
Light.
BOULDERy AS BIG AS FISTS

The rankest Of all savage vandalism
was perpetrated Friday night, when
threeor four big stones were hurled
through the skyIight of Fred Mould's
photograph gallery. When Mr.. Mould
came to the gallery this morning he
found the stones lying on the floor un-
der the skylight and several holes
above.
1t may be the scOundrel or scOunGrels
stood on Fourth street and committed
the depredatiOns from there. It IS an
unusual occurrence in BarabOO al
though the town is not entirely free of
some who have escaped the tempering
effects of civilization. What could be
gained by throwing stones has never
yet been demonstrated. 1t constitutes
about the lowest form of fmaliciousness.
The officers have been informed and
are investigating the evidences.
A skylight is an expansive part of
photograph gallery's equipment. The
glass is extra thick and made of
ground glass, this latter for the pur-
pose of furnishing a soft light and
easily manageable for the many effects
necessary in gallery work.
A light of glass was also broken In
the colored window of Mrs. Henry
Marriott's residence last night.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
Money Not Recovered.

Up to the present time Mrs. Helen
M. Adams of Milwaukee, formerly
resident of Baraboo, has not recovered
ST. 800 which she lost in Milwaukee
when Ringlings' circus was there.
After she discov cred the loss she
traversed the entire course of her
travels in search for the little bag con-
tanning her fortune, but could not find
it. It was all the money she had. The
money was kept by Mrs. Adams in a
small bag tied around her waist with
string, which became loosened. She
withdrew her money from the bank
shortly after Frank Bigelow's
defalcation. The money was the in
surance left her when her husband
died.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
KILLED BY TANNING MILL
Little Boy Found Dead Underneath
Machine-lo Months Old.

A little boy, one of pair of twins,
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Bitney formerly
of Baraboo, who live on Thos. Stanton s
farm in West Point, was found dead
Wednesday afternoon, his body un-
der a tanning mill that had been
placed against the fence near the
barn, according to the Lodi Enter
prise. The child, 19 months old was
out playing with its twin brother,
and when the latter came to the
house alone the missing child was
searched for. After looking in all the
buildings and the water tank, the
mother finally made the sad discovery
of his lifeless body under the tanning
mill.
1t is not known just how the acci-
dent happened. Mr.. Bitney says he
had placed prop under the mill
to keep it leaning against the fence.
He thinks it probable that some of
the older children had removed or
loosened the prop, leaving the mill on
delicate balance, and that the little
boy in playing around it-perhaps
trying to climb upon it-caused it to
fall over on him. DIR. Verbeck, who
was called, found the skull fractured.
Death was no doubt instantaneous.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
MRS. MARY JUDGE DIES
Passes Away at Her Daughters Home
on Camp Street of Heart
Failure.
(From Fridays DAily.)

Mrs. MaIy Judge died at $40 this
morning at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Mary Sweet, 512 Camp street.
The cause of death was heart failure.
Although her health had not been
the best for the past year or more her
condition was not such as to cause ap-
prehension until Tuesday when she
was seriously taken i'll.
Deceased was born in Watertown 66
years ago and came in 1871 to Baraboo,
where she has since resided. Her hus-
band preceded her eight years ago,
July /.
She is survived by brother, Joseph
Smith of Baraboo; and two daughters,
Mrs. Mary Sweet, of Baraboo; and
Mrs. M. HI. Vail, Winona, Mimi.
Seven grandchildren survive.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
PREACHED FOR FIFTY YEARS.
Jubilee Service Held at Reedsburg for
Lutheran Pastor.

Rev. August Rohrlack, who has
preached the gospel for fifty years was
honored with jubilee meeting at his
church, st. Peters Lutheran, Reeds
burg July rs.
A large crowd attended. The de-
coratiOns of the interior were profuse.
Henry Grote, one of the trustees pre-
sented Rev. Rohrlack with purse of
$50 in gold.
He was % years of age when ore
dained and his first charge was in the
town of Westfeld. He preached al
Portage and Oshkosh and came to
Reedsburg in 1859 and helped organize
st. Peters church there.
Last fall it was decided to build 8
new brick church at cost of $50, 900 as
the present structure was found INSULT.
cient. This building is under construc
tion and will probably be completed in
December of this year.
Those from abroad at the jubilee:
DR.. Pieper of st. Louis.
Rev. E. Meyerhof, Wonewoc.
Rev. /. Blumenkranz, Minnesota.
Rev. w. G. Schilling, Loganville.
Rev. F. T. Schwanke, Sandusky.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
BARABOO SCHOOL
CENSUS COMPLETED
THE REPORT SHOWS A GAIN OF
II OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR
-PORTAGE ADDED TWO
LARGEST FAMILY ON SOUTH SIDE
In the Household With the Most
Children are Two of the Same
Age, Yet Not Twins
.ARGEST FAMILY ON SOUTH SIDE

City Clerk Workman has complet-
ed the school census for the year end
ing June 80 in the city of Baraboo and
finds II more children of school age
than last year. The largest family re-
sides on the South Side, there being 10
of school age in the family. Strange
to say two of the girls are named
Mary, two are named Lillian and two
are of the same age and yet are not
twins. This arises from their father
and mother both being previously
married.
The figures for 1908 and for 1907 are
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
NEARLY GNNIHILATED
Large Rock Falls From The Sky At The
Door Of The Dynamite House
At The Quarry.

A new dynamite house or cellar is
being built by the American Refrac-
Gories co ~ pany east of DEVILS lake.
Recently when a charge of dynamite
was exploded in the quarry a stone
weighing about 200 pounds fell at the
door of the present dynamite house.
Had the door been crushed in there
would have been a vacant spot like a
section of the great Sahara desert.
At another time big piece of quart
zite dropped through the trees into
the blacksmith shop and the man at
the anvil thought the demons were
after him. The roof of the shop is
covered with two-inch planks and the
stone went through as easy as clown
through a paper covered hoop in a
circus.
The new place Of storage for the
explosive will be some distance away
and arched over with rock so that it
will be difficult to cause an accident.
The new we'll of water is fine. The
liquid comes from depth of 225 feet
and there is quartzite all the way. The
water was found in a crevice of the
formation and the supply is inexhaus-
table. The improvement cost about
$500 and is one of the most expensive
wells in the country. E. w. Van Aiken
mt down the we'll and was about eight
months at the job. He has moved his
machinery from the place. The water
comes to within about 125 feet of the
surface.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
CONCERNING THE MAILS Of COLUMBIA
Mrs. Maude Newell Williams, Formerly of Baraboo
Writes from South America

1t is true that we have missed but
two or three copies of the News in the
eight months that we have spent here,
but do not imagine that regularly ev-
cry week our magazines and papers are
delivered at our door.
Mail is brought 10 Bogota from three
directions: over the mountains, from
the Pacific ocean, journey which re-
quires several weeks; across from Me
dellin; and up the Magdalena from
Barranquilla. By this latter route the
foreign, or "Atlantic", mail arrives
once each week. European mail, in
Guiding African and Asiatic CORE
spondence, which comes to US by way
of London, is supposed to be brought
up twice each month, while mail from
New York and Brazil comes each
week-at least in theory. In fact, we
usually wait two weeks, sometimes
three, and twice in eight months we
have anXiously watched four weeks
for a word from the outside world!
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
Catching Blue GjItS.

Blue gills make it interesting fer
nimrods at DEVILS lake at present.
Every fisherman catches fine ones and
it appears that they are foremost in
the eyes of the resorters. On Thurs
day evening Alderman Jacobs and
City Attorney John NJ. Kelley rowed
around the LAKE and found all the peo-
pie in boats and also those along the
shore had beautiful collections.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
Railroad Accident.

Miss Lena Paetz of Roxbury town
near Lodi was nearly killed Tuesday
while driving across the track at Lodi
The horse was killed outright and she
was seriously shaken and bruised, but
fatal results are not anticipated.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
DESERTED WIFE FIRST DAY
Divorce Suit Started and Judge Grants
Decree.

A divorce was granted by Judge
Stevens at Madison to Mrs. Anna
Mears against Thomas Mears. The
plaintiff lives at Lone Rock and Mears
at Whitemound. They were married
at Elroy August tn, 1904. Mears
deserted his wife on the day of his
marriage and has remained away ever
since, never paying a cent for her sup
port.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06
Reasons for Delays

Reasons for DELAYS
There are various reasons assigned
for these delays. The river-boats leave
Barranquilla before the ocean steamer
is in, some sacks are overlooked, are
left in HOnGa and other reasons.
The river-steamers, which carry mail
are smaller and less weighted by
freight than the other boats. Thus
they are enabled to make better time,
and letter may come in from three to
eight days less time than a passenger
requires. The government makes
another effort to shorten the time by
the use of hardened, rapid-traveling
mules, driven by experienced men,
who bring the mail-sacks over the
mountain trail from Honda. The usu
al number of sacks each week is from
115 to 13O, but if the number exceeds
13O, as it occasionally does, and there
are not enough government donkeys to
bring them all, the extra sacks are left
in Honda. Mules may sometimes be
secured later and the mail comes strag-
Cling along during the week or it may
wait there several weeks until the
number of sacks falls below 13O. Each
of these sacks weighs 14O pounds.
Occasionally the sacks are lost
sometimes stolen. We have heard
much of interior Indians clothed in
mail sacks, and J., myself, saw two
men on the Magdalena thus arrayed.
How it is that robbers of the mails
dare wear the sacks afterward I'll
leave you to conjecture.
Lost Mail.
A lost mail sometimes comes TO
light again. In May, we received
letters written in January. The en-
velops were as innocent looking as
usual, no extra postmark betraying
their where abouts all those months.
In February a mail-steamer, carrying
80 passengers ran into a drifting tree
trunk land was wrecked. The passengers
all escaped, but with little beside their
lives.
The steamer sank before it could
burn, so the maiI-bags were saved,
and divers were set to work to recover
them. That mail was delayed a
month, and reached us still wet and
moldy from its bath in the Magdalena.
But, so far as we heard, none of the
sacks were destroyed or stolen.
The mail sacks are always well
guarded and these guardsmen are
picturesque looking beings. Dressed
in long flowing capes, broad -brimmed
hats and heavy boots, most of them
wearing tierce-looking boards, and all
carrying the immense gun so much
used here, with long knife stuck into
the inside belt, they really make q
formidable appearance. It is their
business to watch these sacks and
watch them, they do. Start
ing out from the post-office, they
stride after the mail-cart, follow the
mules over the mountains to Honda,
and some even board the river steamer
and guard the sacks until they are
placed en- an ocean steamer. Then
they accompany an incoming mail
back to Bogota.
Each country has differently color.
ed or striped sack so we can always
tell whether the United States mail Is
in or not, from the sacks we see being
unloaded at the post office.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-08-06

The increase at Portage was two.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01
Butter and Eqqs.

Chicago, Dec. -Butter-Steady; cream
cries, 2Oq29; diaries, 1Sd25; other grades,
1Sd25.
Eggs-steady at mark, cases included,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01

Castle Gate and Clear Creek coal
So 70 delivered.
Rock Springs coal, IS, delivered.
western Fuel Co, 70 South Main.
Phone 719.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01
LIVESTOCK MARKETS.

Chicago. Dec. -Cattle-Receipts.
about $500; market steady. Beeves. 3.5OG
615; cows and heifers, l20d4G0; Texans.
315d40O; westerns. 45OG4.6O; stOckers and
Hogs-Receipts, about $1,000; market &c
ais cents lower. Lights, 4.15d 4.55 mixed,
42004. 60; heavy, 420d465; rough. 4.20d4.J0;
pigs, :. 70d4. 40; bulk of sales. 4.45d460.
Sheep-Receipts, about 1900: market 10
cents higher. Natives, 2l5at9.25; westerns.
275G5.15; yearlings, 4S0d5.50; lambs, 4 500
$50; westerns. 459d6.s0.
South Omaha. Dec. 31-Cattle-Receipts
1890: market steady to stronger. Native
steers, S5Oq5.65; cows and helfers, zoo
90; western steers, 30oE4.50; Texas steers,
2. 45d4.lO; range cows and heifers, 1.i5d3 20;
Gamers, 1.25d275: stockeTs and feeders.
:. L5a4.I5; calves. 5.00u550; bulls and stays,
l75d2-l5.
cents lower. Heavy, 43Cd4-40; mixed, 4.30
Gi4.S5: light. 4.25H4.35; pigs. 400G4.25; bulk
of sales, 4.30G435.
Sheep-Receipts. 900: market 10 cents
higher. YeaTlings 4.SOd5.30; wethers. 40
dA65; ewes, S.S0d450; lambs, 6O00650.
Kansas City. Dec. 31.-Cattle-Receipts
5000, including 800 southerns: market
steady to 10 cents higher. Native steers,
S.S0a5.50; native cows and heifers, 2.O0G
40. stOCkers and feeders, 2.S0Gf 40; bulls.
25GG3.75: calves. 350dL00: western steers
5.69d4 60; western cows. 260a3.60.
IlOsS-GAttclplS. 1OpJUs IldIktl ~ 10 10
cents lower Bulk of sales. 435d4 IS:
heavy, 4.4CQ4.55; packers, 4.35G45O; pigs
and lights 400d4.45
Sheep-Receipts. 1900: market steady
Muttons, 4.00d4.75; lambs, 5.60G655; range
Wethers, 425d5.75; fed ewes. 3.5Od45O
St. Joseph. Dec Sl.-Cattle-Receipts,
LOO: market steady and active. Natives,
4.00d5-75; cows and heifers, 1.75G4. 80:
stOckers and feeders. 3.25d4OO
Hogs-Receipts, 14,0O0; market slow to 20
625 cents lower. Top, 4.421z; bulk of sales
43Od440
Sheep-Receipts. 1900: market steady to
20 cents higher. Lambs. 5.5Od6. Co.,; year
lings and wethers, 4.25d4.75; ewes, S.5od4.25.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01
BUSY ARCHITECTS.

Do you know as a matter of fact that
Salt Lake has seldom been so prosper
Gus? It is true that in certain lines a
little of the national apprehension has
been felt here, but the result has been
only a slowing down of those extrav-
agantly inclined. and that strong mid
die class, the vital balancing power of
every community, are going about their
business as usual, business building
and home building. Already we are re-
ceiving inquiries regarding the new
houses we propose to build on Ninth
avenue IN the spring. We will spend a
hundred thousand dollars in these new
homes, and architects and contractors
are busy with plans and figures so there
will be no delay in the erection of the
new houses.
There are still a few of the houses
which we built early in the fall in the
same vicinity still unoccupied, but we
expect them to be taken in a very short
time. The superb location, the modern
ism, the newness and above all the rea-
sonable terms of long time payments
under which we are selling them. max
ing them most desirable for people who
prefer 10 own their own homes than to
pay rent.
Salt Lake Security & Trust Company,
1924 Main Street
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01
Financial and Commercial
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS,

chicago, Dec H.-The wheat market
opened firm because of the failure of Liv-
erpool market to follow yesterdays de-
cnne here. Local longs, however, were
disposed to sell and soon brought about
sndrp break For a time the market was
quite demoralized. Favorable weather for
harvesting In Argentina and an increase
oI z'zoOVO0 bushels in the worlds visible
supply were the chief bearish influences
Inc market became strong later, because
OF active buying by shorts and commits
sion houses, and also because of renewed
TAX OF light stocks in the northwest The
close was strong. May opened a shade 10
9sq& higher at 1.05d1. 05ss sold off to 1037s
and then advanced to 1.06k The close
was 1.057sG1.O6.
The corn market was weak early in the
DAY because of colder weather and the
slump in wheat. Later the market be-
came strong on buying by shorts, and
also, by bulls. The close was strong. Nav
opened a shade to "A cent higher at 593s6
569s, sold off TO 5S% and then advanced to
6O1za6Oss. The close was at eO2s.
The oats market reflected the tone of
wheat and corn opening weak and be-
coming stronger. May opened unchanged
at 81, sold off 20 539s and then advanced to
5415, where il closed.
FroVlslons were. weak all day because
or 1Ou15 cent decline in the price of
live hogs. At the close Nav pork was
off 2A cents at 1910; lard was unchanged
at f.So; ribs were cents lower at 7.G5
There will be no market tomorrow holi-
day.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01
Wool Market.

Boston, Dec. 51-The dullness of the To-
cal wool market continues to be its dom
mating feature. and fresh transfers dur
ing the past week have been of small
volume. Sample grades of wool are al
most exhausted, while wOrsted woods are
held at high prices. Pulled woods and
the foreign products are dull. Quotations
California. northern. 63d65; middle coun-
ty, 5SN6Q; southern. 55G5S.
Oregon, eastern No l staple 20; No.
clothing. G6n6S. eastern average, 65u66,
valley No. l. G0d62.
Territory. secured basis. fine staple. 20
az; fine medium staple, 6Sd70; fine cloth
ing, 65d6; fine medium clothing 6Od62:
half blood, 65Q67; three-eighths blood 63
quarter blood. 53d56
Pulled wool. extra, 65@7O; fine A, 59dC0;
A supers $3.50.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01
Money. Silver. Etc.

New York. Dec. S1.-Money on call firm (;
to 10 per cent; ruling rate. Is per cent;
closing bid y per cent: offered at is per
cent; time loans, easier and more active;
sixty days and ninety days, s per cent;
six months, Z per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, Sq10 per cent:
Sterling exchange easy, with actual
business in bankers bills at 4S41414 $40
for demand and at 4. 1901. 1925 for sixty-day
bills; commercial bills, 4T25.
Bar sislsvser, 53i9.
Mexican dollars, 49,
Government bonds, steady; railroad
hondS strong
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01

Vienna Walnut bread cannot be ex-
celled. Ask your grocer or phone 1881.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01
Coffee and SUGAR.

New York, Dec. 31.-Sugar- firm;
fair refining, 3.30d335; centrifugal, 90
test, 3.S5; mOlasses sugar, S.00d305: re-
fined. steady; crushed, $50; powdered. 40;
graduated. 4S0
Coffee-Quiet No. Rio. lis; No. 4
Santos. s; coffee futures closed net I'M
changed to points lower. Sales were
reported of $500 bags. including: Janu-
ary 5.65; March, 5.sOG5.S5: May. 5.95: July.
Sos; November, els; spot, quiet; No I,
quiet; COrdOva, 91zd131z.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01
LesaI Blanks.

Tribune-Reporter Pig. Co, 66 w. I'd So
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01

New York, Dec -Butter-Steady, un-
changed.
EggsS.-Firm; western firsts, 25k; sec
Onds, 24d25
Cheese-Quiet. unchanged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-01

Chicago. Dec. 31,-On the produce ex-
change today the butter market was
steady; creameries. 20GI29; dairies 1S025.
EggS-Steady at mark cases included
HG22; firsts. 20: prime firsts. %; extras. "a
Cheese-Steady u1LG12.