Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-15

tertainment of members of the Medical
Society of the State of PENNSYLVANIA
There was nothing the matter with the
puppies But DIR. Sweet wished Ia SHOW,
how TRANSMISSION of blood can be made.
So, calmly, he had the dogs nut under
an anaesthetic, cut both of them, Joined
certain arteries, and let the vital hAid
run from one dog to another. During
rms demonstration. as ii was called. the
doctor explained to the medical men
present how the thing was done. Re
ieulng to the dog from whose body the
hlood was being taken, the doctor said:
1t Is NOT necessary TO fasten M tho
artery after we are through. The other
dog we will over-etheriZe and thus kin"
And they did kill the "other" dog after
the first had died.
Col. ]. f. Pollard died at his nome. at
Mclean, Tex, from the effects of a
poisoned arrow from the bow OF an In
dian, received forty eight years ago
while the officer was performing duties
as frontierSman. Col. Pollard was n
close friend of Sam Houston. Col Char
ley Goodnight and other noted Texans.
lie was member of the State Rangers
before the Civil war. when that or
ganlzation was terror to evildoers As
a testimony of his contact with the
wounds. aside from the one to which his
death is attributed, and an even greater
number of gunshot wounds caused by
the Indians. At the time of his death
he was engaged in writing a history of
Texas in early days.
Mrs. Eslie \. Rose Smith Mcdowell
Weatherby- Mcdowell. of 916 East
Twelfth street, Kansas City, is again a
bride. Having decided she made a mis-
take when she secured a divorce from
James A. Mcdowell four years ago and
married Weatherby, who. she alleges.
went through her money like water
through sieve, she repented and again
married. Mcdowell went to the home
of his divorced wife. After short con
ference they decided to forget the past
and they were married in Kansas City,
Kan. The second husband died. She
divorced the others.
Finding in their verdict that Mrs.
Louis Scott OF Costumes, Cal, came to
her death through the shock following
the administration of an auaesthetic and
the extraction of nineteen teeth. the
coroner's jury recommended that
the transcript Of the inquest be for
warded to the state dental board to take
steps toward enforcing the proper ad-
ministration of anaesthetics by practicing
dentists. Mrs. Scott had nineteen teeth
extracted at the Boston Dental ParlOrs
here Thursday, Harry Duckett treating
her She was a trail little woman. and
il was known that she was afflicted with
weak heart. She was given three in
iections of cocaine She became i'll last
evening, and before aid could be sum
moned died wnile her four little children
played around her An autopsy was
held and il was found that the strong
effects Of the heavy dose of cocaine and
the shock of extraction brought death.
\ tax inventory just taken of the per-
sonul ana real property of David Ran
kin of Tarkio, Mo, shows him to be the
WealthieSt farmer on record in the
United States To those who think that
Ia farmers ME is a thornv one financially,
Mr.. Rankin affords an excellent example
to the contrary. Mr.. Rankiu's farm com
prises 25,6l0 acres. He owns 1900 fat
tening hogs, 5000 cattle, 800 horses, and
has on his land more than 100 cottages,
in which the employees of the big farm
are housed. 1T requires to farm the vast
estate machinery to the value of 5000
900.
Seven hundred acres, part of a diked
marsh farm Of 1900 acres near Sagl-
nav, Mich, owned by the Owosso Sugar
company, is set out in peppermint. The
farm was reclaimed out of vast marsh
which for generations was famous
duck hunting ground. In all there are
now within the retaining walls of the
huge farm 5000 acres under cultivation.
and the remainder is being gradually put
to crops. There are hundreds Of acres
Of sugar beetS planted annually, and they
grow to immense size. Potatoes grow
to the unusual size Of pound and
quarter. There are immense fields Of
rye, and cabbage and garden truck thrive
wonderfully. The farm also includes the
largest and finest hay fields in Michigan
and they yield an average Of nearly four
tons 10 the acre. 4 regular force of 100
men carries on the farm work. They
live on the farm in a miniature town
built within the dixie, aud their duties
are performed with the latest improved
machinery that the market affords. One
hundred and sixteen horses are kept the
year around, and the farm is actually
cultivated with as little trouble as
twenty-acre patch, owing to the splendid
executive system in force. BY the eX-
penditure of hundreds of thousands If
dollars in the erection of enormous bikes
the farm has been made practically &C.
cure against even the big floods that visit
the county almost every spring and
which completely surround it for miles
making communication with the outside
world, frequently for many days, posi-
bic only by boat.
Brig Gen Clarence X. Edwards, chief
of the bureau Of insuiar affairs Of the
war department has received the largest
cigar ever made in the Philippine is
lands. II was the first cigar admitted
free Of duty under the new tariff act.
which allows the free admission Of 100
100000 Philippine cigars each year The
cigar was made by a Manila factory and
measured AZ inches in length ana about
IO5 inches in circumference II
weighed about . pounds.
Mrs. ". ". Swan Of White Salmon.
Wash. il receiving the congratulations
Of her neiEhbors for bringing down u
large bObcat at the first shot. Her chill
dren had started to school and discovered
the cat cr0Uched on "a limb 0verhauging
| tine path One Of them stayed 10 watch
| il from q distance and the other returned
| to the house 10 seek help. As there
| was no man ou the place at the time
| Mrs. Swan took gun and went with
| the child. The animal was still there
| aud the woman disuafphel the eat wifi