Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-10-21

nection with the lynching of oolored
man.
The body of an unknown man, fairly
well dressed, was found beside a hay
stack in Carroll county, ILL., Death
was due to starvation and occurred sew
eral days ago.
F. H. Peters of Rogers, Ark, VINO
was driving a number of horses from
Oklahoma, has disappeared with
S. 900, the amount of the sale of a
farm, in drafts and money on his per-
son.
The government geological survey
estimates the worlds production OF
graphite for 1906 at 100 922 short
tons, valued at $3,O63, 1856, consider
ably less than for the two previous
years.
The jury in the ENLIGHTENMENT case
of Charles Ross of Kansas City, late
bookkeeper for Weems Laundry Com
pany here, who alleged Ross specula-
tons amount to $4,000, stood nine for
acquittal and three for conviction, and
was discharged
A 15,00O-gallon water tank supplying
the mill of the Tombstone (Ariz.)
Consolidated Mines company was
blown UP with dynamite and the pipe
lines supplying the mill damaged, dis
satisfied employees being responsible, it
is believed
The yearly meeting of the Friends
(Quaker) church of Kansas, Oklahoma,
Missouri, and Nebraska, in sess' on at
Lawrence, Kansas with 1000 members
present, passed a resolution asking
congress not to elect Joseph G. Can
non speaker
1t is reported at Winnipeg, Man,
that James Oliver Curwood, the well
known author of Detroit, Mich, who
recently went into the Hudson bay
wilds for a Detroit publishing firm,
has been killed by Indians in the Lac
la Ronge county.
A copy of the secret code of the
Standard Oil company is lost. accord
ing to Muskogee, Okla, police who
have recovered a valise stolen from w
A. Ledbetter, general attorney for the
Waters-Pierce Oil company in Okla
homa. The code was in the valise
when taken.
The application of the Eureka Live
Stock company for a writ restraining
resident Roosevelt and the secretary
of the interior of the United States
from setting aside territory in Nevada
for the Monitor forest reserve has
been denied by the federal District
court at Carson, New
President Roosevelt told Israel Gang
will the playwright, who was his guest
at luncheon, that the line, mot being
a true-born American, we hold troth
sacred in 1.-THE Melting Pot" was an
unjust slur upon American domestic
life and suggested that it be changed,
which suggest on Zangwill is consider
ing.
Robert Quinn, 10, and Minerva Hip
pensteel, 4S. eloped from Wabash, Ind,
to- st. Joe. Mich, where they were
welded. Then they returned to this
place, where the bridegroom is ready
to resume work as a clerk He says
they are as happy as if they were of
the same age or his wife thirty years
younger.
Private Joseph B. Klein, company A.
First regiment, /. n. g., of Chicago,
has been indicted by the Kankakee
county grand jury on the charge of
murder. Klein. it is charged, stabbed
Earl Nelson, Is years old, with a bay
onet when the boy boarded the sol
d'ers' train, on it's way to quell the
Springfield race riots.
1t cost Mrs. Merle Thompson of
Hammond, Ind 25 cents because she
whipped Miss Mary Stein, pretty
school teacher in the Franklin school
the other day. The suit was brought
by the Hammond board of education
on behalf of Miss Stein and Mrs.
Thompson was charged with assault
and battery.