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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
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Coal keeps best under sea water.
The criminal class of London number
100000.
The painting OF the Forth bridge
costs $4,000.
Influenza, like cholera, always
travels from east to west.
The sperm whale can stay under
water for twenty minutes.
A mole eats as many as 10000
earth-worms in the course of year.
In Saxony practically all of the live
and the largest portion the full 365
days.
st. Petersburg authorities have is
sued an order forbidding the students
of the cadet corps to read Sherlock
Holmes" and other stories Of a sim
liar character.
Orsa, in Sweden, has in the course
of a generation, sold $5,550,00O worth
of trees, and by means of judicious re-
planting has provided for a similar
income every thirty or forty years.
There are no taxes. Railways and
telephones are free, and so are the
schoolhouses, teaching and many other
things.
The French government has purchaS-
ed two bronze busts exhibited in this
years salon by Andrew O'Connor, OF
Massachusetts. One is a portrait Of
Robert Newman, and the other the
head of an exquisite Italian girl. Mr..
O'Connor last year obtained the medal
Of the second class by the salon
judges.
According to Edwin Warfield, lately
Governor Of Maryland there's a diff
ference between ex-Governors and
former Governors. An Ex-Governor is
he who went after the office again and
didn't get it. A former Governor is
he who didn't seek reelection and re-
turned to everyday life. "And l am
former Governor" added Mr.. War
field, in a recent interview in Milwau-
kee
The English and American mile is
1,76O yards, or $3.50 feet In France,
Holland and Belgium it is LOCO meters,
or 1,O94 yards. In Spain it is 1922
yards; in Russia, 1,167 yards in
China, 600 yards in Norway and
Sweden, 11,6OO yards; in Germany 1t
equals three English miles; in Italy,
| 2,025 yards; in Portugal, $3.50 yards ;
in Austria, 1927 yards, and In Den
mark, S,23S yards.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
SAYS HAYES WAS DRUNK.

Witness in Murder Case Claims
Slayer Was Intoxicated.
The sensation Of the Hayes murder case
in the Circuit Court in Manitowoc was
the testimony of Patrick O'Hearn of Ma
pie Grove, who witnessed the tragedy and
who is witness for the State that Hayes
was intoxicated. ''When Kuchimberg, the
murdered man, insisted that Hayes accom-
pany him, the defendant threatened" he
said. 'Kudhimberg said, L am not afraid
of your gum Hayes pulled the revolver,
pointed it and with the words, You're
not; take that fired the fatal shot"
O'Hearn said that he was within five feet
of where the tragedy occurred
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
KenOsha Man Takes Little One For
chilly from Grandfather.

KenOsha Man Takes Little One For
chilly from Grandfather.
George n. Bliss, Chicago manager for
the Thomas B. Jeffrey Company, forcibly
took his daughter, Geraldine Bliss, from
the arms of her grandfather, Robert e.
Wilson, in Kenosha. The grandfather
and the little girl, who is 3 years of age,
had just left church, where the child had
taken part in a children's day exercise,
when Bliss rushed up and pulled the little
girl from the grandfather and escaped,
while his friends prevented Wilson from
following. The child had been in the Gus
tody of the grandparents since birth, and
it is alleged that it was an agreement be-
tween the dying wife of Bliss and the hus-
band that the child should be left with the
grandparents. The reputation of the
father and the grandparents is the high
est, but long legal fight is promised. The
grandparents declare Bliss never paid a
cent for the support of the child and has
by silence given consent to the agreement
with the mother. A year ago Bliss mar
ried Miss Hattie Symmonds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24

or tanks filled with water, which
must be kept constantly aerated while
the fishes are ON the way, minnows
may be shipped for considerable dis
tances out of water If carefully pack
ed, as they are sometimes shipped
to anglers for bait.
What Is perhaps a record shipment
of minnows, for the results attained
is one lately made from New York
Aquarium to the aquarium in Detroit.
The Detroit aquarium wanted q
bunch of salt water minnows, some
to feed to its marine fishes, and
some for exhibition purposes, and
for these minnows 1t sent to the
New York Aquarium, which shipped
the required little fishes to the num-
Der of 500.
For this shipment there was made
here box about 20 inches square by
10 inches deep, around the inner sides
of vaich cleats were nailed about
three inches from the top. Then the
bottom of the box was covered with
wet eel grass, and on this the little
minnows, from IL to inches Ill
length, were laid carefully to be pro-
tected with another layer of eel
grass laid over them. And then
there were placed in the box on the
top layer Of eel grass over the fishes
strips of wood with their ends sup
ported on the cleats nailed to the
inner sides ot the box, and then
there was put In on these strips ice
enough to fill the box. The water
from the gradually melting ice would
provide sufficient moisture for the
fishes on the way and drainage was
provided for by holes bored in the
bottom of the box.
The minnows were shipped on
fast train and thus packed they went
through in good condition and came
out all alive. 1t was about eighteen
hours after they left here that they
were unpacked in the aquarium in
Detroit, but when they were placed
in the water there the whole 500
found their fins and swan off gay
ly.-New York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
PISTOLS NOT SOLD IN TEXAS.

But Leased for Fifty Years Instead
on Account of a Tax Law.
A cowboy walked into hardware
store at Austin, Texas, and asked for
good six shooter.
Glow much is it?" he asked when
he had looked it over.
81 can't sell it to you," the dealer
replied, 'but will lease it to you
for fifty years for SIS"
'"This is a dad blamed funny kind
of joint" the cowboy said. Il don't
want to lease a gun; l want to own
It,"
He started to walk out, but wGS
called back by the dealer, who en-
planned that the last Legislature pass
ed a law which imposes a tax of
so per cent. on the gross proceeds
from the sale of pistols.
eff I sold you this six shooter for
$15 would have to pay the State
tax of $780," the hardware man
explained. 81 can lease it to you for
fifty years and won't have to pay the
State anything"
The cowboy saw the point and leas-
ed the gun.
The law which was enacted for the
purpose of taxing pistols out of ex-
istence in Texas has been in effect
more than nine months. During that
period only two pistols have been sold
in Texas, according to the tax re
ceipt records of the State comptrol-
ler's office.
One Of these weapons was sold the
other day in Amarillo for SIS and the
dealer made a remittance of $3.50 tax
on the sale. The other pistol was
sold at Gainesville several weeks ago
for $40 one half of which sum pass
ed into the Golfers of the Stare.
It is said that dealers all over
Texas are evading the new law by
leasing pistols for periods of fifty
years and more. Pistol toting is not
openly practised in any part Of Texas
Many men still wear six shooters,
but the weapons are hidden. There
has been wonderful change through
out the southwest in this respect dur
In the early days almost every ma
Ntive in this region wore one or two
six shooters in holsters attached to
a belt around his waist. Then the
moral wave which wiped out gamb-
ling and is about to do away with
the saloon in Texas came along and
the six shooter lost it's popularity.
Only a few days ago man here
was fined $10O for carrying a pistol.
Not a great many years ago 81 and
costs was the usual punishment In
! flicted.
It is said that the fight against
carrying pistols has ereatly lesseled
/ the mortality rate in Texas. Muir
ders are still committed, but there
/ has been a decrease in the indiscrimi-
nate shooting and killing that former
ly took place in the State.-New York
/ Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
RR1EF STATE HAPPENINGS.

Christian Christensen of Rio, Fla, was
found dead in bed at the home of his
cousin, III. II. Clausen, in Neenah. Heart
disease was the cause of death.
Rev. Frederick Tower Calpin, pastor
of the First Baptist church of Madison,
rendered his resignation to assume the
pastorate of the First Baptist church of
Detroit.
Miss Margaret Barnes, the 26-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. e. ID. Barnes
of Sheboygan, was the happy recipient of
a letter stating that she had been left
fortune of $4,000 by her aunt in Lon
don. The latter died only a short time
ago. leaving her entire estate to Miss
Barnes. The latter visited her aunt last
summer, returning from England last Sep
TENDER.
North-central Wisconsin is tc have
new railroad. The articles of incorpora-
ton of the Wisconsin Northern Railway
Company have been filed with the Secre-
tary of State. The line will run from
Red Granite to Poysippi, a distance of
eighty-six miles. The capital stock of
the company is $4,000 and the incorpo-
rators are John Moffit, H. w Colts and
H. A. Dewey.
A public hearing regarding the con
struction of a fixed dam acrOsA the Wis
consin river near Prairie du Chen will
be held soon. Unless valid objections are
presented against the construction of the
dam, the government will soon take up
its work of building it.
f. p. Nelson, who came to Superior
from Willmar, Mimi, as chief weighmas-
ter for the Wisconsin grain and warehouse
commission. has resigned. 1t is STAGED
that he will accept a more lucrative one
at another point. II. A. Juneau, chief
clerk of the department for several
months. will succeed Mr.. Nelson.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
The Frugal Japanese.

A college professor who had spent
four years at Yale and two in Berlin
acquiring his foreign education, lives
with his wife at Kyoto, q city, in a
rented house, having little garden. at
a total cost of 4G5 yen a year, or about
1898. This is divided as follows
Rent, $12O; house tax, S.; servants
wages, SIS; fuel, $13; light, So; clothes,
$50, and food, $50 His salary is $500,
and he is applying 800 year to the
debt he incurred to obtain his educa-
ton. A people who can conquer domes-
tic problems as do the Japanese find
no terrors in the economic burden Of a
war debt.-BOston Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
FINDS AN AMERICAN TYPE
British Paper Praises 1t, as Shown
I'm Football and Baseball Cuts.

British Paper Praises 1t, as Shown
I'm Football and Baseball Cuts.
The existence of an American type
is denied by r. G. Lindsay of the Brit
ish embassy at Washington in a recent
report on alien immigration into the
United States, published as a Blue
Book by the British government Mr..
Lindsay, who characterizes the Peep.
ling Of this country by immigration as
lone Of the most remarkable move
ments Of population to be met with in
history" says on this point:
1T must take many generations be-
fore Americans are physiologically diff
ferentiated from Europeans as much,
for example, as the French are from
the Germans. There is no such thing
as an American type, and even if in
the towns of Europe it is possible to
recognition is effected by mere out
ward marks, such as the style Of
Dress"
With this opinion the British Medi-
cal Journal announces disagreement,
which it sets forth in terms compli-
Iaentary to the physical development
IF Americans. Says this paper:
I'm illustration we would draw Mr.
Lindsay'S attention to the photographs
Of college football and baseball teams
in many of the American magazines
which exhibit a well-marked and, 1t
may be added, fine type. What has
become of the conventional Uncle SAM
the long, loose-limbed creature Of
Punch cartoons, we know not. The
American Of to-day presents a firm,
square jaw, broad brow and clear,
keen eye, which together usually rend-
er recognition of his nationality a
matter Of no great difficulty"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
OLD SWEETHEARTs ELoPE.

WfdOwer Renews Romance of Child
hood and Defies sons Opposition.
Rudolph PlOetz, aged 70, wealthy wild
over of the village of Prairie du Sac
eloped with Miss Ursula Hinges, aged
80, his sweetheart of childhood days. Tn
known to his six sons, who had bitterly
opposed his marriage, the aged bridegroom
and his bride slipped into Madison and
were married by a justice of the peace
The system of espionage on the old man
established by the sons had failed to pre-
vent him carrying out his desire The
couple were sweethearts in youth and had
parted after a petty quarrel. Miss Hinges
had never married, waiting lifetime for
her first love-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
THE OLD WOMAN.
Ry Gertrude ID. king.

By Gertrude q. King.
~ neighbor's girl - q snow-whits
bride,
Her Erock's as white as my hair,
AA1 her little head bends meath her
bridal wreath
As low as mines bowed with care;
Her eyes are dimmed by her misty
veil
And dim are mine, too, with tears,
Her lover stands by and he whispers
low
Oh, long are the weary years!
o God, be good to the little white
wife,
Late come her woman's dole
My man ne sleeps in the clear
green sea,
o God, be good to his soul!
NJ neighbours wife lies still and pale,
But her smiling eyes are wide,
Der a little head nests at her curving
breast
Her tender heart beside;
And little she recks of her woman's
pain,
Awaited with woman's fears,
a. her man-ohild stirB in his rosy
sleep
oh, long are the weary years!
o God, be kind to the rosy child,
Late come his mothers dole
The clover grows over my baby'S
head
o God, keep safe his soul!
Ny neighbours hands fold close the
cross
That lies on his quiet breast,
The candles CLEAN at his head and
his feet,
And the priest prays long for his
rest,
The din of the noisy world without
Rolls over his patient ears
To break on my waiting aching
heart
oh, long are the weary years!
o God, be good to the toiling
man,
Short be his cleansing dole
My hearts apart from this weary
earth,
D God, call home my soul!
From App1eton's Magazine
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
KEPT JEWELS IN JAIL.
After Being Released from Lookup
Woman Gives Police Rings.

After Being Released from Lookup
Woman Gives Police Rings.
Three weeks ago, Mrs. 1. T. Larson Of
Beloit, wife of a jeweler, went into the
Northwestern railways wash room In
GAINESVILLE and left two diamond rings, val
ued at $3.50 EACH on the wash stand. She
took the train for Chicago and did not
miss the rings until several stations away
The rings were gone when the station
agent was notified and the police adyertis-
ed the loss in the newspapers. The other
night Edna w. WheelOck appeared at the
station with the missing jewelry. Since
finding the rings and while the police
were hunting for them, the woman has
spent several days in Jail on a charge OF
attempting to kidnap her own child from
her sister-in-law, to whom she gave the
child a year ago. During the time she
was in Jail she had the rings with her.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
MYSTERY NOT CLEARED.

Death of Peter Hjertberg, Neenah,
Not Explained by Jury Report.
In spite of the fact that the corOner's
jury in the case of the mysterious death
of Peter Hjertberg, who was believed to
have been murdered at Neenah, brought
in a verdict that the man came to his
death through heart disease, the mystery
surrounding the death does not yet appear
to be clear Hjertberg's friends declare
that the man was "dOped' by some person
or persons. Charles Hjertberg, a brother,
states that the young man was never trou-
bled with his heart. 1t is stated that the
family will order more thorough exam
nation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
TRnLETs CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY
wisconsin Trio Born iR 1914 Observe
Their Anniversary.

wisconsin Trio Born In 1914 Observe
Their Anniversary.
The famous Windecker triplets, who
have held the record for some years as
the oldest in the world, celebrated in Fond
du Lac the other day what seems likely
to be the last birthday with all three OF
them present. For sixtyfour years these
triplets, Sidney Windecker of Fond du
Lac, Sylvester Windecker OF Byron and
Mrs. George NJ. Pier of Wausau, have
been together on their joint birthday. Syl-
vester Windecker is i'll of a malady which
it is feared will prove fatal before an
other anniversary The Windeckers were
born in Lowville, N. Y, on June 8, 1874,
and when 5 years old came to Wisconsin
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Windecker, settling in Byron, and it was
at the old homestead that the final birth
day anniversary feast was spread. At the
same time the birthday of Mrs. Sylvester
Windecker, who is 50, and Mrs. Sally
Stroup, the latters aunt, who is 30, was
observed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
Ex1LED FROM HOME AND FAMILY

Man Agrees 10 Danish Himself to
Escape Term in Prison.
Chris Rasmussen, a Pleasant Prairie
farmer, became an exile from his home
to avoid the State prison on a charge of
having scalded his wife and children. Ras-
mussen signed an agreement with the
court which provides that he shall never
see his wife and children again, and
should he ever happen to meet them acct
dentally he will make no effort to speak.
to them. Three months ago Rasmussen,
in a fit of drunken rage, picked up ket-
tie of boiling water and deliberately pour
ed it over the wife and children, burning
the children seriously.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
GIRL PREVENTS FIRE.

Little Almond Lass Gives Alarm
Flames Are ExtinEuished.
A small girl saved the Northwestern de-
pot in Almond from being burned to ashes
on a recent afternoon. The girl happened
to be walking past the station when she
saw the windows clouded with smoke.
She gave the alarm, and the first arrivals
on the scene broke the door open and
managed to extinguish the flames which
had started in the building before any
great damage was done.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
Misuse of TeIephone.

Will there soon be a reaction
against the ever ubiquitous telephone
1t strikes me there may, because ]
hear on all sides complaints Of its
misuse, especially by the younger
members of the community. A lady
of note, who is very good-natured
in having girls to stay with her in
town, was found complaining bitter
" the other day that she could new
er gst near the instrument herself
because her young guests were ex-
changing condolences all day long
with their girl friends as to their
frocks and young Observation-Disclosures.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
My First
Blizzard
BIZ f. II. STEPHENSON.

"a bit run down, and a good bit
nervous, -and-likely to be lot
worse IL not attended to at once"
was all the old family doctor had to
say after a hurried diagnosis of my
case.
Ny mother, whose anxiety was
rsthaF pent up anyway, began to cry,
and began to think of Uncle Billy,
only few years my senior, who liv-
ed in the far away West on a ranch
some twenty-five miles from a rail-
way.
l ran upstairs for the big batch of
letters that he had written me and
that had appreciated as coming from
him, but whose contclta had never
before held more than . cemo,e Inter
est for me.
What a change a few words from
the old doctor had made in my way
Of looking at things!
l read these letters afresh with
amazement and with the keenest and
widest delight. ! even began to pity
my uncle in his loneliness, and in one
short hour my heart and soul were
with him on the plains
Uncle Billy, who had gone under
similar conditions, had recovered al
most miraculously, and my parents
were willing that I should go, all the
more, as so much depended on prompt
action in my case.
In twenty-four hours I was aboard
the Burlington" steaming to the
westward for a small Indian trading
post, called Fort Morgan, in nothern
Colorado.
A telegram from my father had
brought my uncle to the fort, ana
there he awaited my arrival. l had
left everything behind me; my school,
my graduation, my home, and my
chunls, but had not realized it until
my uncle and 1 had started across
the plains to the Big Bijou, on which
river, or rather, river-bottom, he had
Bought large ranch.
1 talked fast and kept as it by main
force, in self-defense, for 1 was afraid
to think. and the few hours neces-
sary to reach the ranch soon passed.
Uncle Billy and 1 were soon chums
IS OF old, and as my health improved
/ was content with my lot. We bust
ed ourselves with the summers work,
and as the two of as could do more
than one alone, we had our Satur-
days off, for getting mail at the fort
and for marketing our stuff, consist
ing of eggs and butter, for uncle had
not yet begun to market stock from
the ranch
AS the winter approached our trips
to the market grew less frequent.
partly because uncle wanted to get a
lot OF sod turned before freezing,
and partly because by holding off we
could command even more exorbit-
ant Prices for our produce. The sea
son was nearing the holidays, and
more than a month had passed since
hast we had visited the trading-post,
so We decided to go to the fort for
4 full days fun.
We arrived early and soon had dis
posed of our butter and eggs and
dressed fowl for almost their weight
in gold, and were having a good So
cial time with our few acquaintances
when the telegraph operator handed
my uncle a dispatch. He read II
slowly, and read 1t again and again,
then. looking at me, said: "A blizzard
10 cnSninF from the Korth at forty
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
NEW PEST FOR BEES.

Preventive Cure Has Been Found
for Destructive Disease.
A new and destructive disease has ap-
peared among the honey bee colonies of
Wisconsin and neither experts from the
Department of Agriculture at Washing
ton, d. c., nor State Apiary Inspector n.
e. France of Piatteville can name it.
The experts, however, have discovered
an effective treatment for the disease and
State Inspector France believes it can be
suppressed
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
.I,oco,, Plant sound i'm Wisconsin.

The loco weed famed in the West as
the cause of sudden madness in horses
and cattle, has been found growing on
the marshes east of Hayton. Several
horses and cattle have been affected, sur
prising their owners by their sudden tran
sition from wonted docility to rabid fren-
Nv. The weed has been identified as the
counterpart of that found on the plains
Of the West.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
Father Reddin Dead.

Father Daniel Reddin, one of the oldest
and best known priests of the diocese of
Superior, died at the home of his brother,
John Reddin of New Richmond. He was
born sixty-three years ago in Ireland and
was ordained at st. Francis seminary,
Milwaukee, in 1881.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
SHERIFF cRAzED BY MANHUNT.

Arrested, Insane, After ExhaustinG
Self Search In Woods.
Sheriff Joseph Bartelme of Lincoln
county, who was arrested at st. Paul, was
crazed as a result of exhaustion while
prowling the woods in search of a man
wanted for murder. For three days he
was lost. He finally boarded a train.
Bartelme was called to Tomahawk from
Merrill by message stating that man
wanted by the Merrill authorities for MUIR
der had been arrested in that city. The
prisoner made his escape. In giving
chase Bartelme was lost.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-24
Time Saved.

''Does your husband spend as much
time as formerly at the racetrack?"
Not nearly as much" answered
young Mrs. Torkins. Tile has a new
system and nearly always goes broke
on the first or second race '-lVashing-
ton Star.