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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
DOMESTIC.

The next annual meeting of the
American Association of Farmers In
stitute workers will be held at Wash
ington, D. G. Nov. 16 and II.
Charles E. Magoon, provisional gov
ernor of Cuba, arrived and conferred
with the secretary of war and Presi-
dent Roosevelt at Oyster Bay.
! -Four coaches on a Missouri Pacific
passenger train were derailed while
the train was moving slowly No one
was injured. The cause of the wreck
was spreading rails, due to heavy
rains.
Orville Wright is at Fort Meyer,
where he will make official flights be-
fore a board of army officers to de-
termine whether the Wright broth
ers' aeroplane fulfills government re-
quirements.
/ Deputy Comptroller Of the U. S,
Treasury Kane denies that many ma
tionai banks of Oklahoma will give
up their charters to take advantage
of the guaranty law. He says but
seven will do so.
| Consul Maxwell Korehead at Acu-
palo, Mexico, has notified the state
department of the death of Grant U.
Price Of Winona Mimi, from a gun
shot wound inflicted by a Mexican
named Manuel Saluda, at Pc de Ia
Custa.
Admiral Dewey will hoist his flag
on the Dolphin and sail from Wash
ington for Portsmouth, N. H. 1t will
be the first time since 1905 that the
admiral Of the navy has flown his Off
Icial flag over naval vessel on a
sea trip
Franklin I. Pishion of Richmond,
Va, formerly OF Menominee, Mich,
was arrested charged with securing
by false pretenses the Endorsement
'of two checks amounting to 1925 and
drawn on the First National bank OF
Richmond.
Formal protest against the annex
alton by Belgium Of the Congo indie
pendent state was forwarded by tele-
graph to Secretary of State Root by
the Congo Reform association, a ma
tional organization with headquar
tiers in Biston.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02

has discovered Izzet Pasha, former
secretary of the sultan Of Turkey and
father of Mehmed Ali Bey. ex-Turkish
minister at Washington, refugeeing
in London. At the beginning of the
recent reform movement, Izzet Pasha
fed from Constantinople.
VladiS ostock newspapers report the
arrest of japanese spies at Slavian
skaia, a port on Peter the Great bay
south of Vladivostok The men ar
rested were provided with plans OF
the defense of the port, military sta
tistics and Typographical instruments
which were submitted to the military
court.
The center of yirulence in the chol
era epidemic in Russia has been
transferred to Rostoy-oi-Don, where
thirty-one new cases and ten deaths
were reported Aug. II. From the
Province of Astrakhan sixty-one new
cases and twenty-one deaths We're
reported on the same day. The chol
era is now working its way down the
Black sea along the Caucasus coast
The Norwegian steamer Folge
Fonden from Bergen to Haugesund
on the west coast of Norway, was
wrecked near Skoneviks and sank in
ten minutes. The steamer carried
seventy passengers and it is believed
that forty were drowned. Fifteen
bodies have been recovered. The
captain of the steamfc was among
those saved.
Members of the royal British com
mission on the care and control of
feeble minded persons, who in the
course of their investigations visited
the United States, have issued re-
port in which they speak highly of
the American system of dealing with
these unfortunates and the manage
ncnt of the institutions where they
are assembled
Miss Wilifred Parson, daughter of
the late Charles Parson, president of
the Rome, WATERFOWL and Ogdens-
burg railroad, New York, was found
dead with a bullet wound in her head
in her apartment in Paris. 1t was
learned that the girl had been suffer
ing from melancholia since the death
of her fiance, young Frenchman,
who died four months ago.
Japan has formally signifed its
readiness to negotiate a sealing con
yention with Russia, similar to the
Russo-British conventions Through
the acquisition of the southern half
of the Island of Saghalin Japan be-
comes owner of Seal island, the
breeding place of a small herd of
seals, and it now recognizes the i'm
portance of cooperation in preserv-
ing the herds.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
FRIENDLY TIP.

Restored Hope and Confidence.
After several years Of indigestion and
its attendant evil influence on the mind,
it is not very surprising that one final
~ loses faith in things generally.
A n. Y. woman writes an interest
ing letter. She says:
Three years ago l suffered from an
attack of peritonitis which left me in a
most miserable condition. For over two
years l suffered from nervousness,
weak heart, shortness of breath, could
not sleep, etc.
my appetite was ravenous but I
felt starved all the time. / had plenty
of food but it did not nourish me
because of intestinal Indigestion Med
ical treatment did not seem to help,
l got discouraged, stopped medicine
and did not care much whether l lived
or died.
"One day friend asked me why
didn't try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking
coffee and use Postum l had lost
faith in everything, but to please my
friends l began to use both and soon
became very fond of them.
ut wasn't long before l got some
strength, felt decided change in my
system. hope sprang up in my heart
and slowly but surely | got better.
could sleep very well, the constant
craving for food ceased and have bet
ter health now than before the attack
of peritonitis.
"My husband and are still using
Grape-Nuts and Postum" There's q
Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich. Read, 'The Road to Well
Vile" in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full Of
human interest.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
Old Home Week at Oshkosh.

Oshkosh, Wis, Aug. 26.-Old Home
Week in Oshkosh was opened yester-
day by exercises on the steps of the
Oshkosh public library. The program
included an address of welcome by
Mayor Banderob, who presented the
allegorical key to the city, which was
accepted by Col. E. NJ Paine, chair
man of the general committee, on be-
half of the visitors. Music was fur
nished by military band and large
crowd witnessed the exercises. The
library was beautifully decorated.
Today will be the big day Of the
week, being Oshkosh day and thou
sands Of visitors are expected.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
GREAT CRAFTS IN
SULTAN'S REALM

London, Aug. 26.-Zia Bey, the
former head of Turkeys secret police,
who is in refuge in London, in an in
terview yesterday said that at the
bidding of his superiors he has been
the means Of running ministers, Of
ficers and government officials, and
ITO Turks, many of them members of
the most honorable families, disap-
peared." This he claims was done
under orders from the sultans resi-,
dence. Izzet Pasha, the sultan's sec
rotary, he adds, is reputed to have
saved $7,500,O00, which he has invest
ed in the United States. The sultan
himself has at least '$15,000,000 in
vested in Europe. this being percent
ages on brides from contractors for
war stores and army and navy sup
niles.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
Suicide Visit Grows Popular.

Davenport, Ia, Aug. 26.-Mrs.
Sophia Deubner called on her neigh
Dor, Mrs. Keppy, swallowing two
ounces of carbolic acid soon after ar
irving, and died in five minutes She
had been subject to melancholia
spells for some time. This is the
third time that persons of this city
have committed suicide in neighbors
homes. in the last few weeks, and the
suicide visit is becoming an accented
social institution here
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
FOREIGN.

The defeat of the Sultan Abdel
Aziz by the forces of his brother,
Mulai Hafd, has been confirmed. Re-
ports indicate that the defeat of Abb
del Aziz was due largely to the be-
trayal of his own tribesmen.
The Esperantists, who are holding
their fourth international congress at
Dresden, have decided to publish
books in Esperanto for the blind and
to prepare proper exhibits to give
information relative to Esperanto.
The new association law, forbidding
the use OF other than the German
language at public meetings, was
enforced for the first time at NIagde-
burg when the police dispersed So
cialist meeting in consequence of one
of the orators speaking in Polish.
Marius Franzini, who was at one
time Portuguese minister of war,
made an unsuccessful attempt to
commit suicide. Senior Franzini is a
prominent progressive and his at
tempt to kill himself has created
much speculation in political circles.
On the eve of his departure from
London on a tour abroad, Gen. Will
lam Booth has issued a manifesto,
pleading for the equality of women
with men, and eXhorting every mem
her of his army to embrace this view
and train his children to this end.
King Manuel of Portugal presided
over the celebration of the centenary
of the defeat of Marshal Junot, which
occurred at Vimeiro, Aug. 81, 1908, by
Anglo-Portuguese forces under Sir
Arthur Wellesley. His majesty also
unveiled a monument in honor of the
occasion.
The London Daily Mail says that it
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02

central committee from the fifth dis
! trict, prominent Iowa republican
and secretary Of the Fisher governor
ship campaign, died suddenly at Mar
shalltown of hemorrhage of the
brain
Mrs. Frame, aged so, widow of the
Rev Waiter R. Frame, former pas
tor Of the Frame Memorial Presby-
terrain church in Stevens Point, died
at Trempealeau. She leaves two
sons, missionaries in Persia, and a
daughter.
John " Farwell, for years one OF
the most notable figures in the com
mercial life of Chicago, head of the
John V. Farwell company and a
Header in the religious and philan-
thropic work of the city, died at his
home in Lake Forest. He was SO
lyears old.
Mrs. Carrie L. Durham, widow Of
Charles Durham, leading member
| of the Illinois bar, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. William Hor-
ton Foster in Chicago Mrs. Durham
was born in Guilford, Me-, in 1910, but
passed many years of her life in Hi
lnois. Mr.. Durham was the demo
cratic member of committee which
in 1871 revised the Illinois statutes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
TRAGEDIES.

Michael J. Ineff, Bulgarian labor
er, was accidentally run over by a
Milwaukee engine in the yards at
Milbank, S. D., and killed.
Frank Allis of Chicago was killed
while trying to board a Wisconsin
Central train at White River, Wis. A
card in his pocket gave his mothers
address.
Junction with the spinal column.
Ellard Carl, the sfz-year-old son of
Evan Carl, fell into vault at Lone
Tree, Iowa, and was dead when the
accident was discovered.
In a fit of drunkenness Adam Bud
nix, Sr, committed suicide by hang
ing while in jail at Montello, Wis, by
making a moose of his handkerchief
and tying it to an upper bunk
Raymond Keefe, 16 years of age,
was crushed by falling trap door
weighing 800 pounds in the plant of
the Menasha Woodenware company
Two of his ribs were broken at their
Margaret Wagner of Marinette, IA
months of age, was poisoned by alb
sorbing some strYchnine through
The cork of a bottle she had found
in the back yard and with which she
was playing.
Coils F. Huntington of Kankakee,
III. formerly manager Of the Ansonia
Clock company in Chicago, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself in the
temple. He had been taking treat
ment for the morphine habit.
The new battleship. Montana, had
screw Standardization trial on the
Rockland course. and made two top
speed runs at p knots. Her average
of five high speed runs during her
builders acceptance trial. last April
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
FED HORSES sHAVINGS.
Illinois Negro Convicted of Giving
CaudtIet aS EOod

illinois Negro Convicted of Giving
Sawdust as Food.
Alton, ILL.,, Aug 26.-The first vaca
ton that Mrs. Sophia DeMuth, police
matron and officer of the Humane So
ciety, was about to take in " years
was delayed in order that she might
prosecute Hickory Bill Hutchinson,
a negro whom she charged with hav-
ing fed five forlorn horses with shaw
ings and then put trousers on their
hind legs to conceal their unfit physi-
cal condition from public view.
Hutchinson was fined SIS after which
Mrs. DeMuth picked up her hand bag
gage, expressed her satisfaction and
started for the railroad station to de-
part on her ng-anticipated vacation.
Before reaching the station she in
structed 0 police officer to prosecute
two decripit horses and then the
horses were duly shot as she started
on her way to visit the family at
Wheeling, w. Va.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
OBITUARY..

Mrs. Emma R. Marshall, sister of
President Albert Salisbury of the
Whitewater normal, aged sc years,
died at that place.
Capt. Charles K Jackson, seventy
one years old, Great Lakes sailor
for more than half century, died at
his home in Algonac, Mich.
Prof. Ida Speidel is dead at her
home as the result of an operation.
She was member of the faculty of
the high school at Lead, S. D.
Patrick Riordan, aged 80 years, a
pioneer resident of Kensosha, died at
the Kenosha hospital.
George R. Estabrook, for five years
a member of the Iowa state republican
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
LABOR AND INpUs1 RY.

The Thomas Shirt and Overall com
pany of Princeton may locate branch
in Fox Lake on account of inability
to get sufficient help where now 10
Gated.
The potato market of Waupaca
county has opened. The crop is OF
average quality and apparently has
been not much damaged by the
drouth
Only half a cabbage crop will be
made on farms in Racine county
Many farmers have raised sugar beets
this year and have been fairly sue,
cessful.
Finding difficulty in disposilg of its
bonds for an electl.c light plant at
satisfactory figure the city of New
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
UNCLE SAM WANTS
SOME GOOD HELP
POSITIONS TO THOSE WHO HAVE
REQUISITE KNOWLEDGE
AND SKILL.
EXAMINATIONS TO BE HELD FOR
FILLING VACANCIES IN
CLASSIFIED SERVICE.

Your Uncle Sam wants a lot of in
telligent men and women to work for
him and offers any position from
that of apprentice of the bureau of
engraving and printing, commonly
known as a printers devil" to the
matron of the indian service. If you
have soft voice and a motherly face
with cultured brain and a wealth
of white hair, such as a good matron
ought to have, you may perhaps be
appointed to look after Indian maid
ems who don't even wear sheath
skirts, or peekaboo hose. If you have
a taste for the Izaak Walton part of
life you may be a fish culturist, while
if you have a taste for mathematics
you may be a computer with a chance
to figure out any mathematical prob
lem under the sun from the occulta-
ton of Sirius to the difference be-
tween the curve of Taft's front and
that of a regular parabola.
Examinations are 20 be held under
civil service rules for a number OF
good positions during the coming fall
Uncle Sam shows no favoritism in
the selection of his employees in this
classified service. 1t is merit alone
that gives them position The list of
opportunities offered is as follows;
Aid, coast and geodetic survey.
Apprentice, bureau of printing.
Assistant examiner, patent Office.
Bookkeeper, male and female.
Civil engineer.
Civil engineer and craftsman.
Civil engineer and superintendent Of
construction.
Clerk (male), isthmian canal.
Computers in nautical almanac Of
fee, naval observatory, supervising
architects office.
Agricultural Craftsman in supervis-
ing architects Office
Copyist, topographic.
Engineer, supervising architects
Office.
Heating and yentilating.
Junior architectural.
Topographic.
Electrotype fnisher
Electrotype molder.
Engineer, Indian service.
Farmer.
Farmer, with knowledge of irriga-
ton. Il
Fish cultUrist.
Law clerk.
Local and assistant inspector of
boilers.
Local and assistant inspector of
bulls.
Matron, Indian service.
Pharmacist, public health and ma
rine hospital service.
Physician, Indian service.
Physician, isthmian canal service.
Postal clerk, isthmian canal serv-
ice.
Stenographer, departmental service.
Stenographer and typewriter, all
services.
superintendent of construction.
Surgeon (acting assistant surgeon
public health and marine hospital
service and surgeon coast and geode-
tic survey.)
Teacher, Indian service
Trained nurse, isthmian canal serv-
ice.
Trained nurse, Philippine service.
Typewriter, departmental service.
Veterinary inspector, department of
agriculture.
Application forms and information
in regard to these examinations may
be obtained by addressing the civil
service. commission MacTin o+or
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
News Boiled Down
IN HADeERDoM.

Farmers near New London organ
lied into posses to hunt wolves which
are infesting their neighborhoods.
William Woinowski was arrested
\ near River Falls and brought back to
Menomonie, charged with an attempt
to burn his home.
Y Tie Oshkosh Democratic club has
4 raised 5000 and has forwarded the
sum to William j Bryan to be added
to the campaign fund.
One of the horses of Buffalo Bills
show was attached at Eau Claire until
damages amounting to $40, done to
one of the street cars, had been set
tied for.
While casting for perch, Albert
Kersten of Kaukauna pulled up a pair
of gold trimmed spectacles which ap-
peared to have been in the water a
long time
Louis Goss of Beloit, picked UP a
pearl valued at $500 in the river near
HOnonegah park. Other stones
smaller in size have also been found
recently in the waters.
Pleading guilty to a forgery charge
Eugene Haessly of Campbellsport was
sentenced to one year in the state re-
formatory. Haessly was charged with
forging a check for $77.14.
The postoftice safe at Seymour was
blown to pieces and every thing OF
any value was taken. Postmaster
Dittman is out of town, the assistant
Miss Alma Brauer, being in charge.
Word was received by Mrs. Mary
Conroy that her brother, James s.
Sicily, formerly of GAINESVILLE, had
been shot in Millican Station, La. He
was engaged in railroad construction
Ernie Miller of Cumberland, caught
The record Oswego bass in Kirbes
lake, it measuring twenty-three inches
an length and seventeen inches in cir
conference and weighing seven and a
half pounds.
James Krause, agent for the Satur-
day Evening Post, is back in Beloit,
and says he is prepared to prove that
he did nothing wrong in his transac-
tons with the company or with Beloit
people.
John Barrand of Algoma, who was
accused of having written a letter de-
manding money from August Klatt, a
we'll known business man with whom
he had been acquainted for many
years, has disappeared
Two deaths due to blood poisoning
were reported at Manitowoc Michael
Plotske, a city charge, dying from
lead poisoning, and Charles Kellner,
town of Four Corners, from typhoid
and blood poisoning.
After Ferdinand Raschke of Chip
pewa Falls had befriended Robert
Ordman, found him job, and paid for
his lodgings, he was rewarded by be-
ing robbed. Ordman occupied the
same room with Raschke. He was
arrested in Eau Claire.
Royal Lee, 10 year old son of Dan
lei Lee of Edmund, Wis, left home
and was traced to Dodgeville, where
he wrote letter home saying if he
had stayed at home another year he
would have become a corpse 1t is
feared he has become mentally I'M
balanced
United States Marshal John Kelley
of Madison has arrested Miss Mary
Paulson of Chippewa Falls, on the
charge of interfering with the mail in
a rural delivery box belonging to one
of her neighbors. From reports it ap-
pears that there had been trouble be-
tween Miss Paulson and the neigh
bors and to give vent to her anger
Miss Paulson is said to have thrown
on tt e ground the mail sac found in
the mail box.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
CLOSING SYDNEY VISIT.
American Fleet About to Start for
Melbourne.

Sydney, Aug. 26-Rear Admiral
Sperry, commander of the American
fleet, and the other admirals returned
on board ships today Arrangements
are now being completed fo-- the de-
|parture for Melbourne early tomor-
row morning
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
The Real Thing.

He-"Why do you consider Miss
Travers strong-minded?"
She-"Well, she Travelled across
the continent three times without
mailing single souvenir post card. :
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-02
United States in a Nutshell
MN Official Figures for II

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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-07-09
Report Of TempleCo.
Assessment Made to Provide Funds
for Proceeding with Work

The Temple Mining company in sending notices of its
assessment gives stockholders the following information:
The object Of raising this money is primarily finish the
paenng Of six claims which the has under way also
to carry further development work the property being
the intention of the management to Immediately proceed to do
large amount Of surface work better show up the ledge and
accurately determine where shoot may be expected
During the past year 81 feet of tunnel rum cabins bunk
house and blacksmith shop trails roads and bridges
for carrying the business Of the company have been construct
ed air pipe 400 feet long laid the pro-
perty with the the Great Western and air for
working the drills secured from that company The Temple
Company equipped with all necessary tools for carrying its
work. including air drills air ppe receivers hand drills black
snithing tools, rails, cars, ETC.
I'VE sincerely hope that all the stockholders will make it
point their share OF this possible
that work proceed at Everything in the district is
looking we'll Two strikes Of remarkable richness have been
made within the last two weeks the Anchor at Burke, in
which running 1000 in silver discovered in pro-
pery which the have been working for number of
years Another strike made in the Npsc lying west Of the
Hercules in which three feet Of very fine shipping gaea
covered the lower tunnel Being located is there
why the property this company should not prove be
as big winner any OF them
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-07-09
SH0SH0NE E'S FINE PLANT
Equipment Reduces Cost of Develop
ment to a Minimum

Work the property of the shoshone Mining and Milling Com
pany Limited within half mile OF the city OF Wallace, Nine Mile,
being pushed with vgor representative Of The MINER visited there
this week and shown through the workings Manager McMuas
The tunnel 500 feet and from this crosscus have
been driven the ledge various places station has been cut 300
the portal where the ledge has split At this station
Wine sunk depth of 100 feet and the vein ded
distance The drift to the east has about
feet will be extended until the point where the two gs
together reached thought that body will be discovered
there The ledge we'll defined and about five feet in width
Along considerable found and be
drifts bottom. probable that the will have
be carried considerably greater depth before the vein will contain
shipping The indications that shoot Of merit will be
found at point the present workings.
The shoshone electrically equipped with hos pumps and fan
the tunnel drifts being lighted with electricity The of work
has been reduced minimum and with the excellent
which installed the expense development will be low in comparison
the average this district Pat Mcovern old timer the
Occur Aenes resident Of Coeu dAlene City, actively in
eed in the property and has done much to promote its
Joseph When also heavily interested and secretary Of the
pany.