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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
AMERICAN MEAT IS PURER.
Board in Scotland Finds Less Pre-
seryatfve than in Home Product.

Board in Scotland Finds Less Pre-
sentative than in Home Product.
In a report covering analyses of Brit
ish and American meat foods packed in
tins and glass, the mcdical department
Of the local government: board of Scot
land sets forth facts which go far toward
discrediting falsehoods circulated abroad
as to American meats. Consul Maxwell
Blake of Dunfermline says that the in
vestigation disclosed that large amount
of ham and bacon of British origin is con-
verified into prepared food, much of which
is found on analysis to contain boric pre-
servatives. Examination of samples prov
ed that American products contained only
10 per cent of preservatives, while Brit
ish products contained more than 40 per
cent. The British manufacturers attempt
ed to attack the justice of the findings on
the ground that many of the products used
for canning were of American origin. The
official report, however, contradicted this.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
MOTHER AND SON AT SCHOOL.
Attends Institution with Boy to See
that He Gets Fair Play.

Little Jimmie" Scott, negro, age 10
years, is in Lansing, Mich, claimed by
his mother, Mrs. J. ]. Scott, to be a vic
tim of race prejudice. She says the boy
is not treated fairly by his white school
mates. In fact, she suspects that perhaps
he does not get the chance he should to
receive an education. The boy is in the
third grade. The mother is accompanying
her son to school. She sits by his side
during study hours and returns home with
him afterward. Il want my boy to have
his chance" the mother says. HE is a
good boy, and want him educated as are
white folks children, SO l go to school
with him to see that he is not pestered
and is given his chance to study" 1t is
said that the boy does not learn easily,
and that is the reason he has not advanced
more rapidly. This does not accord with
Mrs. Scott's opinion. She says: Jim
mic is a bright boy, and if they will give
him a chance other boys have he can go
along with the other boys"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
MONEY IN CANTELOUPES.
Former Desert Land Now Worth
5000 an Acre.


In some sections of Colorado and In
| the Southwest, where only few
years ago the land was a worthless
desert, the canteloupe is king. The lus-
cious fruit is at its best where other
fruits and vegetables are not grown.
1t is hermit. Squashes, watermeIons
and pumpkins grown in its vicinity
cause ii TO deteriorate but potatoes
grown in its neighborhood seem to add
TO its virtue
From four districts in the West the
export value of canteloupes this year
will be 100000 In the vicinity of
Glenwood, Colo, new land, redeemed by
irrigation and devoted to canteloupes.
is selling for $1,000 an acre. This
statement seems preposterous until one
is confronted by the recorded deeds. A
fruit farm of 20 acres which was
bought at $1,000 an acre three years
ago produced in cantaloupes per acre
in the three years $1,000. S2.10O and
$1,000, thus returning the purchase
price each year with 30 per cent profit
the first year and 100 per cent profit the
following years.
The region about Glenwood which it
is possible to irrigate does not exceed
10000 acres and most of it has already
been snapped up. The soil is Incredibly
rich, but has no rainfall.
Another canteloupe district is the
Salton Sea, in southern California, for
merly desert strewn with bleaching
human bones. Part of it is now irrigat-
ed and from one section there was
shipped this year 100000 worth of
melons, while as much more rotted on
the ground. This former sun-baked des-
ert is now bringing apricot trees into
bearing in two years and giving crops
of barley, kaffir corn, onions and canta-
loupes in succession on the same land
in one year. The sun shines $50 days
In a year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
1000 LAND SEEKERS BROKE.
Gamblers Make Many HauIs at Dali
las and Gregory = ID.

Gamblers Make Many HauIs at Dali
las and Gregory, s. ID.
1t is estimated that a thousand land
seekers who have come to Dallas and
Gregory. S. D.. have lost their money at
the gaming tables and are broke" Many
more who have lost all their ready cash
have been forced to telegraph for money.
Nearly GOO persons have registered at
these two points already, and nearly as
many more are expected before the period
for registration closes. Hundreds return
as soon as they have registered, but thou
sands have remained for the drawing.
These latter have, in hundreds of in
stances. been the victims Of the Tiger"
The gamblers have operated their games
without restraint and are said to have
made remarkable winnings. They run
twenty-four hours a day, with the games
IS strong at daybreak as when the sun
sets. To be broke in that country means
something to man, because he is without
friends at a time when it is not easy to
make new ones. Every outgoing train
carries many men who have lost their
money and are risking their lives on the
brakebeams or bumpers. No land open
ing probably has ever brought more peo-
pie, and they all come with money.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
NUBBINS OF NEWS.

Representatives of the coal miners OF
Washington and the coal operators met
recently and signed an agreement for the
present wage scale to be in force for the
next two years
President Roosevelt has told Israel
Zangwill, the playwright, who was his
guest at luncheon, that the line, Not be-
ing American, we hold our troth sacred, -
in THE Melting Pot" was an unjust slur
upon American domestic life and suggest
ed that it be changed, which suggestion
Zangwill is considering.
2. T. Ecker and S. Ecker were SEN
fenced at Clarksburg, W. Va, to four
years in the penitentiary for making spu-
rious nickels, which were used to work
slot machines.
Grand Duchess Elizabeth, widow Of
Grand Duke Sergius, who was assassnat-
ed at Moscow in 1905, has retired to a
Russian convent near Moscow. She may
decide TO take the VEIL
At a reception in the Lyric Theater,
New York, under the auspices of the
United Irish League, John e. Redmond
and JOSEPH Devlin, the Irish ENJOYS, were
given a rousing reception by a large au-
dience
A gift of 100000 to Tufts COLLEGE IN
der the provisions of the Braker will, re-
Gently probated in New York, was an
nounced to Tufts students at Medford,
Mass. The money is to be used as a
foundation for school of finance and ac-
counts.
D. Ne. Carr, an advocate Of parcels
post legislation. in an address before the
National Rural Letter Carriers Associa-
ton at Omaha, Neb., urged the passage
of the Burnham congressional bill, which,
he contended, would make the rural post
al service self-sustaining He said one
cent postage, if it should become effect
i've, would entail a loss of millions of dol
lars
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
MESSAGE FROM DR.. COOK.
Man Who Accompanied Arctic Ex-
uJorer Part WAY Returns,

pIOreP Part way returns.
The first message from DIR. Frederick A.
Cook, the Arctic explorer since he start
ed for the pole from a point north Of
Etah, Feb. %, has been received in New
York City. 1t was brought by Rudolph
FRANKIE, who accompanied DR.. Cook on the
early stage of his journey and who receiv-
ed it from the explorer by messengers,
whom he sent back TO the winter base at
ter he was well on his way to the farthest
north. The message was written March
il last, about three weeks after DR.. Cook
had started on the last stage of his jour
ney. 1t was dated Polar Sea, north of
Cape Hubbard" and said that up to that
point everything had gone well, although
the weather was extremely cold. He was
making a straight line for the pole at that
time. he said, and expected to be back at
the base late in May. The boys are do
ing we'll and l have plenty of dogs" DIR.
Cook wrote. Il hope to succeed. At any
rate, | shall make a desperate effort" DR..
Cook did not reach the base before FRANKIE
started for home, and no word yet has
been received from him. Members Of the
Peary Club and the explorers have been
considering for some time the advisability
of sending an expedition 10 search Of DIR.
Cook. He was the only white man In his
expedition. He had large company of
ESkimos and plenty of dogs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

At Salem, Mass, after a continuous
existence in the hands of the same fam
ilv. the oldest store in America has been
closed, ending a career of 104 years The
present owner will devote his time to
the development of an invention.
Officials of the Inter national Paper
Company have announced that several
mills which have been shut down for four
weeks will be started within a few days.
The plants were closed because the men
refused to accept reduction of 10 per
cent in wages.
Statements are made that the annual
report of the international Paper Com
panv will show earnings about $4,000 in
excess of what they were year ago. The
earnings of the company reached their
lowest mark about January, but since
then have shown moderate increases
monthly.
The s10GO0OOO City Of PHILADELPHIA
tbirtv-vear per cent loan was five times
ovarsubscribed. The awards went to the
highest bidders at prices which yield the
citv 4 premium Of S334. SO. Two New
York banking firms got the issues. name
". William A. Read & Co. and Harvey
Fisk & Sons.
c. E. Sinclair of Minneapolis. surveyor
general of lumber, reports that the lurn-
Der cut this year viii be the lowest since
1873. This will be due principally to
the high water in the early part of the
season, and the Nv water at the present
time In the first four months of this
year about S0,O00O00 feet of lumber was
cut, while the cut for the same months
last year amounted to over twice that
amount.
The case Of the government against the
Standard Oil Company Of New Jersey,
has been transferred from New YORK 10
Chicago for the taking of further testi-
mony.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
( 9Ai5S5:;:;;c SIDE SIDE
The News y

Looks like Bill is going to be elected.

|
Open season for political broadsides.
The most popular college this year is
| the electoral college.
The habit of burning letters ought to be
taught in the schools.
That DR.. Rustin of Omaha must have
been a cheerful citizen.
China has decided not to let France
slide down its cellar door.
No campaign is really hot until the
election judges begin to fight
That is an ominous shadow which the
cholera is casting over Manila
Business is beginning to pick up. Look
at the ready letter-writer industry
Lots of people can see political rain
bows without going up in airships
Nobody's being kept awake by the
noise of the campaign contributions
Airship trips by moonlight For re-
| served seats apply to Wright brothers.
The American feet is experiencing all
sorts of novelties. including a typhoon.
The poor little tuberculosis germ will
now have time to take a little needed rest.
This country's record breaking pump-
kin crop ought to make pie lovers laugh.
TIL new Chinese minister-elect. Chung
Men Yew. has a name like midnight cat.
If the freak styles in hats keeps on.
next thing we VIII have a mems millinery
store.
Things seem to indicate that we are
now living in the United States of Stand
ard Oil.
Is giving $1,000 automobiles to ac-
tresses pastime among needy Wall street
brokers?
Bulgaria thought she might as well take
a slice of freedom while it was going
around
Who would have believed that the ma
chinery of politics had been so completely
oiled up?
Not in it now unless you have either
new cure for consumption or Standard
Oil letter.
The case of Thaw shows that even in
Jail the bill collector will get you if YOU
don't watch out.
An automobiles who is not fined now
and then considers that he might as well
not have a machine.
This warning against collecting cam
paisH money sounds like a grim joke to
the committee treasurers.
Hunting bears in automobiles in Vel
lOwssone Park. Now it's up to the Presi-
dent to hunt African lions in an airship.
There are 117.404 paupers in London.
not to speak Of the 1.264,407 other people
who conceal the fact that they haven't
any money.
Landslides are great things-unless you
happen to be caught under the landslide.
Locks like good business with the
Wrights selling 30 aeroplanes at one time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
CHICAGO.

Inc weekly review of trade, published
oy X. u. Dun & Co., saws:
Trade developments include none of
striking Importance, and conditions main
iy afford encouragement for the future.
Movements of general merchandise now
extend to seasonable proportions, and re-
tail trade here and at the interior is ia
vorably stimulated by lower temperatures.
Staple commodities remain in fair re-
quest for early shipment, the attendance
of buyers in the wholesale branches being
well maintained. and the deep water ways
convention brought large numbers of Wis
itors, who bought freely at the fall open
ings in fashionable lines. satisfactory alb
sorption being made of apparel, millinery,
footwear and house furnishings
Chicago steam road returns testify to
increasing freight tonnage, of finished
products and heavy materials, and re-
eeipts disclose further recovery in crude
supplies for conversions.
Live stock arrivals make the best aggre-
gate In some time past, although shortage
Is yet felt in hogs and beeves.
Stocks of provisions in store have I'M
dergone rapid reduction during the last
thirty days, and easier values induced
more liberal buying and heavy east-bound
shipments
Cash grain markets were duller than
was expected, but futures became active
upon reports of political troubles in En-
rope.
Manufacturing indicates that machin-
cry and labor have become more fully
engaged. Furnace product is in rather
quiet demand for the first quarter of 1909,
and prices waver, but there is steadier
activity at the steel mills, carshops and
foundries, and closer working to capacity
in farm implements, heavy hardware, ma
chinery and electric appliances.
Bank clearings, $237 ,347 ,561, are 40
per cent under those of corresponding
week of 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered twenty-five, against TWEEN
ty-seven last week and twenty-four a year
ago. Those with liabilities over 5000
number five, against six last week and
nine in 1907.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
FOUR RAILROADS ARE FINED.
Confess Hauling Stock More than
rs Hours without Unloading.

The cases of the government against
four Kansas railroads charged with vic
lating the twenty-eight hour stock law
came up in the United States District
Court in Leavenworth, Kan. These are
cases in which indictments were returned
against the railroad companies for haul
ing stock more than twenty-eight hours
without taking the animals from the cars
to feed and water them. The railroads
pleaded guilty. The A.chison, Topeka
and Santa Fe was fined 500 on three
counts, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific $3.50 on ffty-nine counts, the Mis-
souri, Pacific 5000 on four counts, and
the st. Louis and San Francisco $1,000
on eleven counts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
Totals for Five Gam

Chicago will hold its worlds base
ball championship title at least an
other year. The Cubs by shutting out
the Tigers at Detroit Wednesday, to
0, established themselves as the mon
archs of the diamond. They elimi-
mated the Tigers in fou rout of five
games and won their glory in the most
clean-cut and decisive manner. In
their long struggle for another title
of world-beaters the Cubs overcame ev-
cry obstacle in a thorny path, and now
stand out above all their rivals in a
class by themselves. In driving the
final spike through the pennant and
into the masthead the Cubs gave the
Tigers their worst trouncing of the en-
tire series
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
FlREBUes SET 100000 FIRE.
Man Arrested Suspect-Flame s
Destroy Railroad Cars

Destroy railroad cars.
Incendiarism for revenge, according to
the police, resulted in a loss of nearly
100000 by fire in the mammoth docks
and freight yards of the International
Salt Company at 103d street and the Cal
umet river, South Chicago. One man,
who was discharged by the company sew
eral weeks ago, was locked up on suspi-
cion after being rescued from a burning
freight car. The prisoner is Perchold
Gettford He was unable to explain sat
isfactorily to the police why he was on
the company's property. The flames swept
through the docks, jumped the river, at
tackled and threatened a big grain eleva-
tor with destruction and blistered several
steamers and barges laden with grain
Two freboats towed away the imperiled
vessels and saved them, while fremen
ashore prevented the burning of the ele-
vator. The fire is said to have been set
in two different places. Flames were
first discovered by James Norback,
Waterman, in a salt shed 2OOx1GO feet
He ran into an adjoining shed, 3O0x24O
feet, and in a corner found another blaze.
The Waterman pulled an alarm box and
the freboat Michael Conway was the first
to respond. Half a dozen calls for fire
engines were made, and the freboat Hi
nois was summoned before the flames
could be checked.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
Man 100000 Years Ago,

Prof. Peuck of Berlin is coming to New
York soon to lecture on the interesting
anthropological discovery in a wonderful
cave at Saints, Switzerland. In it DR..
Bachler has unearthed numerous remains
of a colony of bears, with a quantity of
human bones of the prepaleolithic period.
1t is held that the men lived in the cave
and ate the bears, which had been hunted
and killed. Prof. Peuck claims to have
proved the life represented in these re-
mains must have had its being in the in
terglacial time or before the last glacial
modification of the Alps. That would
make the time about 100000 years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
TwO-Men Flyfng Record

Using a more powerful motor and pro-
peller than formerly, Wilbur Wright made
new record flight at LIE Mans, France,
when his aeroplane carried himself and a
reporter for the Paris Figaro through the
air at high speed for fifty-fve minutes and
thirty-two seconds, the latter part of the
fight being after dark had settled down
over the field. The speed with passenger
was 37.S7 miles an hour. Lazare WELLER,
the Paris fnancier and promoter of in
vention, has ordered the construction of
a flock of Wright aeroplanes, and all
France is rejoicing at the prospect of TAX
ing the lead of other nations in this new
industry and possible means of defense.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
Noted Amba ssador Is Dead.

Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, one of
Great Britain's noted ambassadors, died
in Brighton, England, at the age of rs.
Besides figuring largely in Eastern affairs
Sir Henry achieved prominence as a men,
Der of the celebrated fourth party in the
British House of Commons, which, under
the leadership of Lord Randolph
Churchill, created a stir quite out of pro-
portion to its small numbers :.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
WOMEN CONVICTED OF PLOT.
Get Prison Terms on Charge of Seek
ing to XIII for Insurance.

Get Prison Terms on Charge of Seek
Ing to XIII for Insurance.
In Carthage, Mo-, Mrs. Albert Baker
and her mother, Mrs. Hannah Raney,
aged 60, have been convicted and given
prison terms for an alleged plot to kill
Albert Baker, the former woman's hus-
band The alleged plot had its inception
in st. Louis, where Baker married Myr-
tie Raney Feb. -, 1901. He charged an
attempt on his life in Carthage on March
s, 1908, to secure $4,000 life insurance
which his wife induced him to take out
the day before their marriage. The SEN
tence is six years for the wife and five
years for the mother. A brother, Thad
Raney, will be put on trial at once. Baker
alleges he was awakened by blows on the
head by a hammer in the hands of Thad
Raney. In the fight that ensued, and
in which he alleges his wife and her
mother and brother participated, Baker
was shot twice, and he says that while
he beat off his assailants his wife ex-
claimed: MY God, Albert, won't you
ever give upl''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
RELIEF TRAIN BURNED
AND MANY DIE IN FIRE
Refugees from Metz, Mich, Are
Trapped by Forest Fires and
Score Perish.
FIFTEEN SKELETONS FOUND.
Engineer and Fireman Have Thrill
ing Escape After Seeking Safety
in Vain in Water Tank.

Nearly a score of men, women and
children, refugees from the Michigan
forest fires that have destroyed seven
towns and have caused property losses
estimated at several million dollars,
were burned to death in a relief train
wreck Friday. The train, consisting of
box cars, after leaving the town of Metz
in the upper peninsula, struck a burn
ed out culyert and left the track. The
passengers were trapped on all sides
by the flames and cremated in a fiery
furnace. Fifteen charred skeletons
were found in the burned wreck.
The forest fires above Alpena, in
Pressure Isle county, suddenly become
threatening Thursday, after it was be-
lieved that the heavy rains early in the
month had eXtinguished them. They
spread rapidly and soon were menacing
a number of towns along the line of the
Detroit and AIackinac Railroad. The
village of Metz, with about 100 inhab-
itants, lay in the path of the flames.
Its situation became dangerous Thurs
day night.
Relief Train of Box Cars.
The railroad sent in relief train of
box cars. Household goods and
mercantile stocks were loaded on some
of the cars and the people filled the
others. How many were taken aboard
is not known, nor is it known whether
any of the farmers from outlying
points had come into Metz seeking
refuge from the flames.
With its load of frightened men, wo-
men and children the train pulled out
of Metz about midnight and started
for the north, with flames along the
tracks on both sides. The cars pro-
ceeded toward the north as far rs
Hawks station, about halfway be-
tween Metz and Millersburg There
the fire was sweeping across the track
so fiercely as TO make further progress
in that direction impossible and the
train was headed back toward the
south for Alpena. While rushing
through the fire and smoke the engine
struck a culvert which had been burn
ed. 1t left the rails and fell into the
ditch.
Engineer Foster and Fireman Lee
took refuge in water tank, where they
stayed until the water became so hot
that they had to leave the tank and
run for their lives. They, with Con-
ductor Kinville, realizing that the
train was hOpelessly ditchcd and that
to remain with it meant certain death.
started to Posen. They left the wreck
and escaped by crawling along the
tracks on their hands and knees, with
the forests ON both sides roaring fur
naces. Conductor Kinville is reported
to be blind from his burns, but Foster
and Lee are understood to be not
severely injured. There are reports
that several others escaped with the
trainmen. George Boston, travelling
salesman, was on The derailed rescue
train, but succeeded in reaching Posen.
where he arrived badly burned He
says that one car of the train was
filled with Den, women and children
and that probably about twenty must
have persisted in the fire.