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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
500 Road Beats State.

Judge E. Ray Stevens of the circuit
court overruled motion by the state
to quash writ of mandamus secured
by the 500 Railroad company to COM
pei the railroad commission to grant
it authority to issue $4,000, 000'of addi-
tiOnal stock The commission refused
to grant the desired authority because
the railroad had not filed an amend
ment to its articles of incorporation
showing the action of the stockholders
in deciding to issue the new stock.
The fee for filing such an amendment
would be $21, 900. Judge Stevens holds
that railroad company is not re-
quired to file an amendment showing
it's authority to issue additional stock.
This law, the court says, applies only
to other corporations. The state will
appeal to the supreme court. The
ruling of the lower court is interesting
in view of the fact that the Chicago
&, Northwestern recently paid q fee of
$4,000 and the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul one of $175,020 for filing
amendments to their articles of incor-
poration. If the supreme court de-
clares that the law does not require
railroads to pay such fees these two
companies will have to appeal to the
legislature to get their money back, as
they did not pay under protest. Other
railroad companies have also paid
such fees, and will reclaim them If
the decision of the lower court is up
held.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

Jail adjoining, young Godfrey can al.
ways be found walking beside the
prisoner, together with the deputy
Sheriffs.
He is known to everybody about the
courthouse as Young Sheriff God
frey" This title does not affect the
lad, who looks upon his Office as one
of honor
Whenever the senior Sheriff Godfrey
desired to take a day off or to go Wis
iting he could with all safety leave his
duties in the care of his young son
and his wife.
When interviewed by reporter in
the courtroom during the trial of the
Mahan case the young sheriff said:
while like to do what my father
does it is my desire to become a law
yer. / want to be a great lawyer and
try cases after / get through high
school and 1 am studying very hard
for that | will go to college.
Work about the courthouse is hard
sometimes, but I like it. 1t is great to
make the people stand up and sit
down when the court comes in. The
people don't like very well to lave a
kid like me tell them what to do.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

oxysm had overtaken nim? And poor
Archibald, when he was %, remem-
bered that on the night when he was
ri he had hidden his bride of an hour
in dungeon, where none of the merry
wedding guests might find her, while
he went to bring her wine and cake
from the wedding feast And as he
went down the winding stairs the
hand of time had touched him, setting
him back seven years and blotting out
all memory of what had happened
between his fourteenth birthday and
his twenty-first. And so it happened
that when, with his twenty eighth
birthday, came memories of the
twenty-first, he remembered his bride
and went to take her the cake and the
wine and behold. there, meath the
wedding veil, lay the bones and the
dust of her whom his retainers had
sought for weary months.
Then there is Sir Gilbert Parker's
ssThe Right of Way the tale of the
Young lawyer who, struck on the head,
roamed among the loggers, his brain
blank. until another and an equally
great shock restored reason. And to-
dav Booth Harrington is contributing
to Everybody's in THE Guest of CUES
nay'' story on precisely the same
line. of brilliant mind stricken and
then restored in both instances by
shock
And if the alienists now studying
Mrs. Balls case decide that shock
alone will restore her reason and pro-
vide the key to the mystery of the two
lost children, will the law permit
them to apply the test, to administer
| the shock?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
State Democrats in Session.

State Democrats in Session.
The Wisconsin state Democratic
convention was held in Milwaukee.
Candidates, delegates, politicians anu
interested persons from every section
of the state journeyed to the Badger
metropolis for the session and the no
tells and rooming houses were filled to
overlooking for several days. Before
the session the northern and north.
western part of the state had no candi.
date for delegate-at-large and some
Democrats insisted that great terri.
From the talk heard it looked probable
that a candidate from there would re-
ceive good support. The intimation
that Chairman Manson might, under
certain conditions, be left off the dele
cation, had little foundation. 1t was
known that even in delegations which
had been claimed as solid for some
candidates for delegateS-at-large many
of the delegation were for him and his
friends had no fear. Little was heard
about district delegates. These local
ambitions did not come to the sur
face until the delegates to the state
convention arrived. Secretary Draw
ley early completed the preliminary
work of preparing for the convention
State central committee headquarters
were established at room 121, the
Plankinton.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

lives And who shall say at what in
slant reason was dethroned, or what
act of her own or another swept like
sharp knife through the tottering
brain and left it blank?
Perhaps Mrs. Ball knows to-day
where the children are, and, with
demoniac cunning, refuses to let the
father claim his own flesh and blood
Perhaps, if she would, she could lead
the searching parties to the very spot
where the silent forms are buried
Perhaps her mind was never a blank
But history, medical and otherwise
gives Der the benefit of the doubt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

expected with such treasure trove at
hand
So the Guatemala's crew was set to
work unloading as much of the cargo
as they cared to carry away with them,
the brandy and wines going into the
ships stores. and broadcloth and pray
ing rugs being divided up among Off
GERS and crew in proportion to their
rank. Going up the west coast the
ships rigging was draped in black
broadcloth when the sun shone and
the decks and all sunny spots were
covered with praying rugs that both
OF these assorted articles might dry
out thoroughly. for they had gotten
thoroughly soaked in the hold of the
wrecked ship. When the Guatemala
reached the cities she stopped at there
was a bargain day sale held of the
goods and the average price received
for the broadcloth was eight dollars a
yard while the rugs sold from $40 to
$50 each. There was prize money"
to burn on that ship through the rest
of the voyage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

father of the young man, was keeper
Of North river light station, and his
uncle, Fabius Evans Simpson, is now
in charge of the exhibit of the light
house board at the jamestown expo
sition. Another uncle, A. J. Simpson,
is keeper of Southwest Point light, all
in North Carolina. Young Simpson
says he will stick to the business, be-
lieving he has inherited an ambition
for the service in which his family has
figured for many years.
He could not furnish full length
picture of himself. He said he tried
to get a photographer in North Caro-
lima to take all of him, but the artist
said he could only do it in sections,
and then paste them together, which,
he thought, would give an idea of his
clients towering figure. To do SO
the photographer wanted to charge
extra for the second section, and the
picture was not taken.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

their threshold Her clothes were in
disorder. Her fingers were grimy and
tcrn as though she had been digging
in the frozen earth. Across her
throat were great bloody scratches.
All reason had fled. Her eyes were
wild, her speech incOherent.
The next morning raving maniac,
Mary Ball was taken to the asylum
for the insane at Taunton, Mass.
But where were the children?
The distracted father asked it. The
excited neighbors echoed his question
The county officials considered ii
their duty to find out. Detectives
came from all over New England to
join in the search. The Brockton En-
terprise offered a reward Of $500 fo1
the recovery OF the children, dead OF
alive. Brockton citizens raised $40C
more, and more detectives, profes
sional and amateur, flocked to the
scene.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
North Wisconsin Organizes.

The North Wisconsin Development
association, which was organized at
Ashland, with d. M Maxey of Wash
burn as president, and Editor Maloney
of Ladysmith as secretary, is having
hard work getting started and it
looks now as if the association would
go to pieces At the time the associ-
alton was organized it was decided
that each county in that part of the
state should pay $3.50 into the main
association, but definite steps in this
direction have been taken by only
about four counties in the northern
half of the state. In view of the fact
that a number of counties were not
coming up with appropriations, the
county board of Bayfield, county
passed resolutions a few weeks ago
instructing their officials not to pay
their $3.50 into the association until
the other counties in this vicinity had
done so. The ashland authorities
have also been holding back for some
time in making their payment for the
same reason.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
Mothers Memory Gone.

So to the Taunton asylum he hur-
ried alone Unaccompanied by hys-
terical women or keen-eyed detectives,
he hoped that in a quiet, heart-to-
heart talk with his wife he might OBJ
tain some clew to the whereabouts Of
his children.
Il took my children under my cloak
They were cold and crying. The rest
is blank"
Behind that moment of motherly in
stinct when she stretched out the pro-
lection of arms and wooden folds to
envelop her shivering children, Mrs
Balls memory cannot go. Sometimes
she gropes wildly for facts, and says a
woman in red automobile took the
children away. But always she real
ICES that the children are gone, that
none can find them, and that behind
the veil of her clouded mind lie the
facts which she cannot reach.
Grave physicians and alienists have
visited this woman, striving to decide
whether it is lapse of memory pure
and simple, or return of the mental
malady from which she suffered four
years ago. At that time she was con-
fined to the asylum because, on the
death of her youngest child, she had
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
Appoints New Regents.

Gov Davidson appointed Frederick
c.. Thwaits and James F. Trottman of
Milwaukee as members of the state
board of university regents to succeed
w. J. McElroy and Arthur ]. Pulls of
the same city. The appointments are
for three years. Mr.. Thwaits succeeds
Mr.. McElroy as a member from the
Fourth congressional district and Mr..
Trottman succeeds Mr.. Pulls as mem
Der from the Fifth congressional dis
trict. Mr.. Trottman is an alUmnus of
the university, having graduated from
the academic department in 1884 and
from the college of law in 1886. Gov
Davidson several days ago reap
pointed Lucius C. Hanks of Madison,
representing the Second district, and
DR.. Evans of La Crosse, representing
the Seventh district
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
How to Care for the Eyes.

Rest, exercise, baths, massage, and,
above all things, tireless care in the
use of the eyes during their every day
priceless service to her who owns
them, are the rules for making the
eyes fair to look upon. If the eyes
are not inflamed they may be washed
every morning in tepid water. In
case of Inflammation an application OF
equal parts of hot water and milk
will be found helpful. Dry with
piece of old soft linen, being certain
to wipe inward toward the nose, so as
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
Object to Gasoline Car.

The state railroad commission heard
the petition of Attorney Colin w.
Wright of Monroe for an order re-
curing the Illinois Central railroad to
furnish better passenger service be-
tween Madison and Freeport. Several
weeks ago the company took off or
of it's two passenger trains and d
month ago partly restored the old
service by putting on gasoline motor
car having capacity of rs passen-
gers. This gasoline service does not
satisfy the patrons, who complain that
the car is too small, i'll smelling and
uncomfortable.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
Scribes at Menomonie

The Wisconsin Press association
has accepted an invitation to hold it's
annual convention at Menomonie.
March 10 and II has been suggested
for the convention, and it is probable
that the association will agree to these
dates. A prize of 800 will be offered
for the best story on Menomonte
printed after the convention and one
of $50 for the second best.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
Will Be Van Hise,s Cess.

President Van Hise of the Ijniver.
sity of Wisconsin has invited the Off
GERS of the Southern Wisconsin, Teach.
ers' association to hold their annual
session at the university March Is and
IA. The invitation has been accepted
and an attendance of 1000 TO 1900 Is
predicted. Among those who will
speak are: Silas Y. Gillian, Milwau-
kee; DR.. Charles McMurry, Francis
Blair, superintendent of public In
struction for Illinois, and William
Hawlry Smith.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
SUPERIOR BRIDGE Authorized.

The Jenkins bill, authorizing the
construction of bridge across the St.
Louis river between Superior and Du-
luth at point near che proposed steel
plant, passed the senate. 1t was re-
ported from the commerce committee
by Senator Martin and Senator La
Toilette asked immediate considera-
ton. The committee reported an
amendment, which was agreed to, pro-
viding that use of the bridge shall be
forever free to all pedestrians and We
hicles. The house agreed to the SEN
ate amendment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
May Have Sent Children Away.


Some few Brocktonites believe that
because the air had been full of
rumors regarding unhappiness in the
Ball home she really did arrange to
have some one come with red auto
mobile and take her children where
they might be cared for.
But such reasoning does not satisfy
the majority of those who have
worked on the case. The majority
believe that the woman, in horror at
the malady which was slowly creep
ing upon her, took her children to
some lonely spot and killed them
then with the cunning of the madwom
an, hid them beyond all finding. Per
haps the torn hands came from dig
ging in the half-frozen ground that she
might hide the silent little forms
Perhaps the scratches on her throat
came not from her own fingers, but
from the tiny hands fighting for their
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

developed curious homicidal mania,
brought on by excessive grief But as
time cured the wound her mental
equilibrium was restored, and she re-
turned to her home, where apparently
she was devoted to the two remaining
children.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
BUILT ON coNCERTiNA PLAN.
Liqhtkeeper Measures Six Feet Six
Inches in His Stockings.

Like the towering pines that fringe
the North Carolina coast, upon which
he was born, in sight of dreaded Hat
teras, Fabius Evans Simpson, the as
sistant keeper of Lazzaretto light
house, at the entrance to Baltimore
harbor, can lay claim to be the tallest
lightkeeper in the Fifth lighthouse dis
trict if not level with the tallest i'll
the service from Maine to Rio Grande.
He is only % years old and is built
on the concertina plan. When he
rises from a sitting posture one won
ders how much more remains to be
unfolded before he is Strengthened out.
He is six feet six inches in his stock
ing feet.
His parents were reared alongside
the sea, and he comes of family that
has figured in the annals of the light
house service. Alpheus w. Simpson,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
Instinct Led Woman Home.

Two nights later, on Thursday, De
cember S. Mrs. Ball staggered into the
home of Mrs. Baxter, who lived di-
reotly opposite the Ball home in
Brockton. The Baxters were terrified
by the figure which stumbled across
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

not to issue invitations to woman.
kinds pet horror, the crows feet. II
the eyes are hot and watery, use hot
water which has been poured over
rose leaves. Witch hazel is beneficial
when combined with camphor water,
and is refreshing at any time. 1t is
best when applied at night and al
lowed to dry on the lids. Weak tea,
which is the eye tonic of our grand
mothers, is delightfully."- strengthen
ing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
Resembles Famous Stories.

Who does not recall Julian Haw-
thornes great story, Archibald NAL
maison," whose hero, from brain
shock. reverted every seven years to
the mental state of seven years be-
fore, recalling in minutest detail every
thing that had happened when this pc
culiar psychological and mental par
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

Gilbert w e S {
and Lord Little
ton agreed to seek
the overthrow or
Christianity by
proving that the
resurrection of
Jesus and the con-
version of Paul
were myths. After
careful research
West was con
WINGED that the
proof in favor of
the resurrection of
Christ w a S so
overwhelming that
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

he could not reject it without doing
violence to his reason; and Littleton
was equally convinced that the evil
dence in favor of the conversion of
Paul was SO abundant and clear that
he could not be loyal to the demands
of healthy reason and reject it.
When the two friends met to compare
notes they were ready to worship him
whose religion they had sought to dis
credit. Their arguments, published
in book l have read, are unanswer-
able, proving that true rationalism
which patiently investigates and draws
fair conclusions from established
premises cannot fail to convince the
earnest seeker after truth that Jesus
was all that the New Testament
writer's claim for him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
A Unique Claim.

Jesus claimed that he was himself
the antidote for all evil. Men have
presented their schemes for remedy
ing earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone
in presenting not system, but his
own personality as capable of supply
ing the need of the SOUL He said: II
am the bread Of life" 81 am the way"
Il am the truth" Il am the life" 'T
am the light of the world" Come
unto me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden and | will give you rest"
Instead of systems of philosophy or
schemes of relief, he presents himself.
This idea is not Of the earth. 1t
was not mans way Of doing before or
since Jesus came. He stands alone
in the history Of the world as one who
offers himself as the remedy for all
evil.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
The Only Explanation.

Christianity is religion OF facts.
which, interpreted by sound reason,
prove that Jesus was not product OF
the age in which he lived, but God in
carnate. No other explanation salts
factorily explains him. Every other
explanation is simply an attempt to
explain him away.
Jesus claimed that he was the
"Son of Man" and that thought was
not born of the age in which he lived.
He was not Jew enough for the Jew
nor Roman enough for the Roman nor
Greek enough for the Greek. They
all rejected him because he belonged
to all alike, and refused to belong to
either exclusively. The forces at
work in the world at that time did not
produce such man.
Jesus claimed that he was the "Son
of God" AS the Son of man he was
truly man; and as Son of God he was
truly God. He said: Gle that hath
seen me hath seen the Father"
John 14:9O Many men before and
after Jesus have tried to demonstrate
the existence of God. He made no
such attempt. His mission was to
manifest God in his own person,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

A light heart lives long.-Shakes-
peare.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

What you don't owe won't bother
you.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
A Strange Mixture.

The assertion or Chicago rabbi
that the Apostle Paul produced the
Christ of Christianity is certainly com
plimentary to Paul until he informs us
that Paul was a poor, honest epilep-
tic, whose conversion was a hallucina-
ton he had during one of his epilep-
tic fits That bewilders us and sug-
gests that unbelief can believe some
very absurd things. If epilepsy can
make man like Paul. who in turn
produces such a character as Christ,
it behooves civilization to establish
institutions for generating and cult
waiting epilepsy fer the benefit OF COM
ing generations.
1t was Christ who made Paul, and
without Christ Paul had never been
heard of as a Christian preach
er or writer Indeed, the only
rational explanation of Paul is the
fact that the risen, living Jesus
met him on the Damascus road and
transformed the fiery prosecutor into
an ardent missionary. However, ii
is to the credit of the rabbi that
he frankly admits the historicity of
Jesus and the honesty of the apostles.
This shows that he has gray matter
in his brain.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
Children Went JoyfuIIy.

Joyous antiCipatiOns were aroused
In their childish minds. Christmas
was at hand Perhaps they were go
ing shopping! Perhaps they were go
ing to the woods to gather evergreens!
AS to where they really went, directly
from the schoolhouse, opinions differ.
This may have been because Brockton
had something else to think about
during the next few hours. The Ball
home on Holbrook avenue was in
flames There was a fire to be put out
and to be discussed. and it was so I'M
fortunate that it happened While Mrs.
Ball was away shopping
However, since the tragedy has be-
come the sole topic Of conversation
in the little manufacturing city of
Brockton, one man recalls that he
saw the mother and her children to-
gether about $50 o'clock that after
noon Two children. who knew the
Rall family well. claim to have seen
the mother without the children on
Brockton street at 4:3O of that event
full Monday afternoon.
But the one tangible piece of evil
dence is that Mrs. Ball. unaccompanied
by her children, stopped at u lunch
cart for mouthful of food at avon,
a little town just north of Brockton
on Tuesday evening. December s.
Later that night she was found by a
nearby farmer, A. l.. Pinto, in his barn
and was ordered away. The children
were not with her Pinto did not
know who she was and took her for
some poor, drunken wretch