Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-09
General.

Cook, the explorer, says: "Let
skeptics who disblieve go to the north
pole. There they will find small
brass tube which | buried under the
flag. That tube contains a short state
ment about my trip. | couldn't leave
my visiting card because / didn't hap
pen to have one with me-"
The long pending controversy be
tween the Southern Pacific Railroad
company and the government of the
United States relative to the right Of
the road to select indemnity lands
within the limits of the old Atlantic
and Pacific railroad grant will be de
United States if a suit filed by the
railroad company in that court re
Gently reaches a final issue there.
A deputation representing all of the
pulp and paper manufacturers and all
of the Canadian owners of rights to
cut timber on crown lands in the
province of Quebec, called upon Prem
Ter Gouin and asked the government
to prohibit the export of pulp wood to
the United States.
Robbers held up the cashier of q
Mineola Qowa) bank, securing $1,500.
An advisory staff has been appointed
for temporary service in the special
work of the census.
Lieutenant Benjamin d. Foulois of
the signal corps, has been detailed to
represent the war department at the
international aeronautical conference
to be held at Nancy, France, Septem-
Der 1924. He will sail for Europe on
September s.
The bureau of the census an
nounced that approximately three
thousand temporary clerks would be
appointed in connection with the work
of taking the thirteenth decennial CEN
Sus.
Ormsby McHarg, assistant secretary
of commerce and labor, will retire
from Office September /.
Three thousand people named Smith
gathered in the exposition auditorium
at Seattle for reunion of the Smith
family. Smiths from every state and
territory in the union were present
among them many Indians and Eski-
mos. p
The Burlington system is shortly to
establish an air line through Nashville
connecting the grain fields of the
northwest,gw the Atlantic coast.
The award of the contracts for the
two men American dreadnaughts of
$4,000 tons EACH. the battleships Wy
oming and Arkansas which are, ex-
pected to be announced soon.
Two persons were fatally hurt and
eleven seriously injured when local
Rock Island passenger train, carrying
state fair visitors, returning from the
show grounds, struck a packed Fort
Des Moines car, fully amidship, and
crushed it to kindling wood.
An increasing number of counter
feits, supposed to come from Sicily,
have been found in New York
E. H. Hartman has retired to the
exclusion of his mountain estate to
complete his latter cure"
President Taft will urge postal
savings banks on next session of con-
gress.
Thirty-eight children mourn the
death of their father, John w. Miller,
aged 70 years, who died at the coun-
try home at Indiana, Pa, where he
has been an inmate for several years.
Mr.. Miller was married four times.
One wife survives him.
At Cincinnati, responding to an
alarm of fire William A. Willis, cap
tain of fire department in the sub
urb Of Norwood, found his own home
in flames and the dead body of his
own son, Ebert, years old, and that
of Virlis English, years old, being
carried from the place. Both had
been suffocated