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Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24
A MINE DISASTER FUND.

Somebody has suggested that it would be prudent and practical for the coal companies of the United States to organize permanent fund for the aid of families impoverished and deprived of support through mine disasters. Calamities such as that at Cherry, H., bad as they are, could be softened in their material effects if it were possible, through an es- tablished agency with ample re- sources, to render prompt and real relief. The relief should not be limited to immediate necessities, but, as has been done by means of popu- lar contributions secured through ap- peals to the public, it should include provision for the future of stricken families and dependents until such time as they might reasonably be ex- pected to care for themselves.
 The plan proposed is worthy of careful consideration at least. The coal business is well organized and every operator in the country can be reached with ease. Since, excepting in cases where damages are collect ible for loss of life, the public in- variably is asked to subscribe to re- lief funds, when necessary it is urged that coal producers add a small charge to their prices, cent a ton, and that the proceeds be segregated and devoted to relief purposes. If this were done for a single year it would yield a fund of near S5,000,O00. Thus it will be seen that the possi- bilities are there in amplitude. Not all companies would come in on such an agreement, however, and the ele- ment of competition would enter into even so small sum as one cent. There would be objection, too, to taxing the public for the crimes and negligence of miners and operators, and the mining concern which never has suffered more than trivial dis aster or small loss of life among its employees would resent contributing for blunders and mismanagement of oth- CTS.
 Meanwhile some of the most ap- palling ealamities are occurring in what are known as model mines. At an unnroni+ious moment a comnany official fails in his duty, or a miner is careless, scores or hundreds of human lives are snuffed out and community is plunged in mourning and abject distress. Might it not be worth while, therefore, for the com panies to get together and do what they can for the financial side of the easel
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24

lie service. If injustice has been done to the concern it will welcome a congressional investigation which will so demonstrate. If, on the other hand, the half has not been told or imagined the people are entitled to know that.
 The sugar trust has wide ramifiea- tions. It is as powerful on the Pa eific coast as elsewhere, and there is no reason to believe that its meth ods there in any way differ from its methods at the east, whatever they are. The public is entitled to know all the facts, and the only way to get them is by a congressional inves- tigation.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24
BALL PLAYER NOT GUILTY.

William Duhnson, Phoenix ball player, who was charged with a statutory offense, was found not guilty by a jury yesterday in the district court. The jury was out for some time and took three ballots be- fore reaching a final verdict which was that Duhnson was not guilty as charged. He was defended by Attor- ney Olander of Chicago and Attorneys Herndon and Hammond. Duhnson is connected with a prominent Wiscon- sin family. He left on the evening train for Phoenix. He is one of the best ball players in the southwest.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24
GLOBE LANDSA RE THROWN OPEN
 FUR ENTRY Sec. Ballinger's Recent Orders May Cause
 Some Changes
CFrom Tuesdays DaIly0

Several hundred acres of land, the same tract that caused the formation and dismissal of a line of watchers at the Phoenix land office recently, has been thrown open to entry near Globe, says a Phoenix report.
 Permission will be given to bona fide settlers to enter the land and acquire rights, though the actual fil- ing of location notices will not be allowed in the land office there until December p.
 Receiver Charles Arnold at the Phoenix office stated that those who enter upon the lands in good faith, remain there and give evidence that they are bona fide settlers and not acting for someone else, will acquire rights of value when it comes to making the location on December 22.
 As yet Arnold has received nothing regarding the manner in which the filings on December % will be &C., cepted. When Secretary of Interior Ballinger was here recently and or. dered the line dismissed, he announced that he would promulgate a. set of regulations to govern in future the opening of land for filing.
 Ballinger took exception to wealthy parties and corporations hiring men to hold places in the line at the door of the land office to the exclusion of people with moderate means, who could not afford to either wait there for weeks themselves or hire some one to hold places for them.
 Whatever Ballinger's regulations are they will be of considerable local i'm Portanee, as there are several tracts of land to be thrown open in this vicinity. In the past there has been scramble and much competition for first place at the door of the land office, some waiting for weeks for the first chance Ballinger's regu- lations will prescribe the manner in which places in the line can be earned.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24
TRICKS OF TRAMPS.

The case of one Vergongeanne, a stowaway on the Manchuria, who claims to be going around the world penniless on a wager, has stirred the immigration bureau, and now Wash ington will decide whether M. Vergon- geanne should not be sent back to the place whence he came like any other indigent wayfarer from over sees.
 How many strolling vagabonds or anarchists have got into the United States by alleging the poor excuse of a touring bet no one has data which will tell. Once in, there is no watching these tramps to see that they go out; the authorities keep no tab on their movements; and if they happen to like the country they stay in it, and, in many cases, no doubt, become one with the dependent, de- fective or delinquent classes which have to be cared for by the public.
 Is a foreign ragamuffin any more desirable here because he made a bet before he left home than if he hadn't made One'
 Is such a person, arriving penni- less, less likely to become a public charge than one who has not taken an oath to get on without earning or receiving money en routel
 Is there any assurance that a wager has anything to do at all with such a mans coming to America; and if proof is had, does the fact exempt him from the operations of the in- digent alien clause of the immigration law7
 As to the present case, if Vergon- geanne is permitted to enter without funds and under an obligation not to earn or receive any money, he must live by begging or stealing. The question is, Haven't we beggars and thieves enough of our own without the raw material for more7
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24
GOOD STRIKE REPORTED
 IN THE PICK AND DRILL

News reached here yesterday of good strike of ore in the Pick and Drill mine, which was encountered in sinking the main shaft. This prop erty is located four miles from Hum boldt. W. W. Gnash will return from California to superintend the work which is planned on an extensive scale. A six-horse team is now en- gagged in hauling provisions to the camp. For a long time, the Pick and Drill has been favorably regarded by mining men and the recent strike only confirms the. predictions that have been made.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24
FL TIGRE MINE.
CFrom Tuesdays Daf1y)

The two rich strikes reported over a week ago are permanent in eharae- ter. One of these was on a vein running parallel with the old Tigre vein about 500 feet distant. The other is in the Sooy vein where tun- nel No. erosseuts it. This tunnel is being driven beneath all the other workings to be 2,5OO feet long and of size adequate for electric haulage.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24
the Cole shaft.

the Cole shaft.
 The ores, like those of the adjoin- ing Copper Queen and Calumet 6 Ari- zona properties are of ca smelting na- ture and are smelted direct. The average is probably from five to six per cent copper.
 On account of the dip of the ore bodies, the Superior 6 Pittsburg re- quires deep shafts. A great deal of water is encountered in the workings, neeessitating large and complete pump ing plants. As an example of the amount of water handled at the prop erty, it may be stated that during February, 3,770 gallons per minute were pumped for 24 hours per day. In four years the water has been per manently lowered nearly 800 feet. The pumping, timbering and great depth of the workings on this property add materially to the operating cost.
 The Superior 6 Pittsburg property has not reached such a high state of development as the adjoining Calu- met 6 Arizona. The question appar- ently is, will the big Bisbee ore bodies continue their permaneney into the Superior 6 Pittsburg property, par ticularly to the Briggs and the June ton groundi
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24
CENTURY EDITOR DEAD.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1s.-Richard Watson Glider, author and editor of the Century Magazine, died tonight of heart disease.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24

That 10 per cent advance in the price of champagne will not disturb in the least the fellow, or fellowess, who guzzles the bubbles.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24

"There is no understanding wo- man," says the Milwaukee Sentinel. Of course not; but that will not stop the guessing.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24

"Another model cashier has run away with the cash," quotes the South Bend Tribune. Still, that is not an argument against being a model cashier.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24

A Missouri minister thinks five we should revive the old-fashioned two-hour sermon.'' We fear this is one proposed religious revival that is not going to take like wildfire.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24

fWhile a young man was telling his girl good night last night, her mother came down the hall and hand ed him a note, with the request that he hand it to the milkman before he left" says the Montgomery Adver- tiser. Well, was the young man game9
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24

Ballinger, Pinchot; Pinchot, Bal lingerl And the administration could be happy with either, were t'other dear charmer away!
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24

We sometimes think it might be a good thing if MT. Rockefeller would put up a million or so for the exter- imitation of the mothballs.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12
IN BAckwooDs OF VIRGINIA.
Wild and WooiIy Is a Section of
Americas Oldest Country.

1t it was any time but midsummer
| might take a camera and go down
into eastern Virginia. Now there's
something interesting, even before
you've something to find out
The why and the how Of In eastern
Virginia are ten contiguous counties
without railroad That isn't some
wild and woolly new country! It's
almost the oldest country We have.
T was settled by almost the first
Fnglishmen who came to America.
If those counties. And yet-think of
it!-this ancient land, as large as
delaware, without q railroad in it,
,-ote the names of the countless
King George, Westmoreland, North
cumberland, Lancaster, Richmond, Es-
EEK, King and Queen, Gloucester,
1-athews, Middlesex-sonorous names,
an Gus in old English annals, redo
lent of a storied past. Through the
in DIST of them runs the Rappahan-
ock-what memories of the Civil
ar that name calls up! In the
Arary you would learn that nobody
IS written up" that land; tourists
aerally never heard of it; l doubt
even the camera fiend has exploit
It. Oh, no; I have never been
re; never knew anybody who had
I'll there; but if you go, | miss my
ass if you don't step off the train
nix into the middle of the eigh-
nth century. Yes, and the Ian
age and mrny of the customs will
! older STILL they will be Eliza
ethan English Many OF those sur
VI Is you wouldn't find even in Eng
I'd itself today. If you're looking
y. something different from New
erik. there you will surely find it.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12
FREEZE TIGHT SHOPPERS.
. uses Contraction From Neck of
'cttIe and Makes Removal Easy.

uses Contraction From Neck Of
cttle and Makes Removal Easy.
eagent bottles holding caustic al
les, alkaline carbonates, etc, very
2Guently become fixed and the usual
ethod has been to tap the stopper
it'll a wooden block or the applica-
IN of heat to the neck, or a cOm-
nation of both. Results are poor in
rtain cases and often result in the
acture of the neck.
The inverse process may be used
. advantage. In other words, freeze
e stopper, thus causing a cOntrac-
on Of the stopper from the neck
he bottles which l used for expert
ent had failed to open under the
eating and tapping, and were bad
2ses Of fixed shoppers. The bottles
ED sodium carbOnte that had formed
cdium silicate, all excellent cement,
I'd so were firmly fixed. They were
nTerted in q mixture of crushed ice
nd calcium chloride, taking care that
he freezing solution did not touch the
rs of the bottles
After standing twenty minutes each
topper was removed without the
lightest exertion This is the neat
st and safest way to remove stop
ers from bromine bottles and other
corrosive chemicals.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12

Kidney Diseases Are Too DANGEROUS
For Ladysmith People to
Neglect.

The great danger of kidney trouble
is that they get firm hold before the
sufferer recognizes them. Health is
gradually undermined Backache
headache, nervousness, lameness, sore
ness, lumbago, urinary troubles
tropsy, diabetes and Bright's diseas
follow in merciless succession. DON
neglect your kidneys. Cure the kid
leys with the certain and safe remedy
ooan's Kidney Pills, which has cured
eople right here in Ladysmith.
Mrs. Ed Phalen, living in the East
ern part of Ladysmith, Wis, says:
was in rundown condition as tn
result of kidney trouble. / suffered
from intense pains in my back so Sc
we're at night as to prevent me from
sleeping. My kidneys were disordered
and the secretions very .scanty and
distressing in passage. At times
also had headaches which caused me
great deal of discomfort. Doan's
Kidney Pills had often been recon-
mended to me and when l saw them
advertised, l procured a box at Moon
ey's Pharmacy. They gave me such
great relief that l procured furthei
supply and the change they brought
about in my condition was most graf
flying. To anyone suffering from {
similar trouble, | heartily recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. Price
cents. FosterMilburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the Unit
ed States.
Remember the name-Doans'-an
take no other.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12
Eeribboned Flowers.

The use of ribbons with flowers
has a great field and enhances the
.oauty and value of them. A bunch
Or basket with an appropriate bow
artistically placed makes it worth as
much again, if you are not simply
selling merchandise.
But put the ribbon where it belongs
where the eye suggests the need of
something being tied. To put a red
necktie on an a1aucaria is as bad
taste as chiffoning an azalea with a
lot of fussy stuff putting out here and
there. 1t does not do the azalea any
good and wastes the ribbon.
You can use some receptacle with
the plant that offers an excuse to tie
GA a bow of ribbon and you at once
rave the satisfying effect on the eye.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12

Spooner is considering whether 1T
will don the regalia of city. Itmlght
sound more grandiloquent to say "The
City of Spooner, but aside from that
the principal advantage, as we see 1T,
consists of more salaried offices, which
create more or less satisfaction, as
the case may be. A thousand dollars
or more distributed in additional salaries
ought to give the municipality the SER
vices of more efficient officers. Lady
smith now has budget of salaries ag-
gregating over $4,000. We pay the
mayor $500 per annum, city clerk $3.50,
city attorney $500, city physician $l25,
six aldermen about $500, fire chief $500,
chief of police and street commissioner
Zone office $3.50, night officer $3.50, be-
sides the salary of the engineer at the
water works.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12
Kaiser ODE, ed the Scene Shifter.

A story is tcld in Berlin newspaper
circles which rlaces the kaiser in a
somewhat curious light. Recently he
visited tbeater. and strOlling behind
tie CURTIN ecame liberal of advice
e the manager 2c.Crs and even scene
Tlitc: s. who listened in awed silence.
Presently tt e emperor lighted a cigar,
putting as he talked. On both sides
Ct him were dinsy dreperies and on
the floor heaps OF p3per
One of the scene shutters stepped
forward and rointed politely to a
printed notice: No smoking allow
ed" For a = oment the kaiser flush,
ed, then smiling, he put out his cigar
Femarlfirg s he did SO: Thank you
friend It would lie bad business if.
Your emperor taught you to disobey
the law
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12
URGES a CHANGE
Editor of the News-Budget:

Editor of the News-Budget:
Noting what you said in last week.
issue in regard to change OF school
system, | will say that | have often
heard it said by members of the school
board here that they were hampered in
running the schools by the control of
the money for school purposes by per-
sonssoutside the board. have been told
that even the fuel could not be paid for
at one time because the amount was
larger than the school board was
permitted to pay at one order. The
school board should be held responsible
for good schools and it seems to me
that they should handle the money to be
spent for schools. If a change were
made to the district system, the
people would vote the tax to be raised
and it would be placed in the hands of
the school board, who being elected by
the people would be directly responsible
to the people. There would be no more
chance for graft than under the appoin-
tive system.
There certainly is no good argument
aginst the election of local officer by
the people. Every voter has chance
to learn the character of the person he
votes for, and the people should have
a right to express their wishes by their
votes. This they would have if the city
changed to the district system.
w. N. MACKIN,
County Superintendent.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12
sition where he will be obliged to defend

CIlolT WOTk,
The spectacle of a fleet of heavily lad
en- merchantmen losing out IN the race
to enter the port of New York before
the new law could become effective is
more eloquent and effective answer
to the question, is it revision upward
or downward, than the fine speeches OF
men on the floors of Congress. Practl-
cal merchants would not be in such a
race if it was revision downward. Its
revision upward and the American peo-
pie will pay for the fiasco.
The Wisconsin Insurgents did not fare
well at the hands of Speaker Cannon
in the matter of committee assignments.
They did not expect to. The removal
of Mr.. Cooper from the Craftsmanship
of the Committee on Insular Affairs
attracted attention throughout t he
country and condemnation which came
to the Speaker because of that action
was we'll deserved. Some papers mis-
represented the facts, perhaps inadvert-
emily. Mr.. Cooper never talked with
the Speaker in regard to this chairman
ship. He took the high ground that
the character Of his work and length
of his services entitled him to recogni-
ton. They did not impose upon him
the necessity of begging. He would
not enter into deal or trade of any
kind. His vote upon the conference re-
port on the tariff bill was not cast be-
cause of any effect it might have upon
the mind of the Speaker but because
he believed some of the schedules make
reductions. He was one of the men to
whom it is said the President made the
assurance that he would urge the re-
construction of the cotton and wooden
schedules which, had they been recon
structed downward would have made
this bill substantial compliance with
the party platform.
Congressman Morse was also punish
ed because or his insurgency. He was
removed from the Committee on Indian
| Affairs of which he has been a hard
working and valuable member. The
only reason for his removal was that
he would not bow to the will of the
| Speaker and surrender to him his vote.
The only important craftsmanship, in
fact the only Craftsmanship held by a
Wisconsin member is that of Commit
tee on Railways and Canals of which
Representative Davidson is the head.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12
THEY FAVORED kits.
Three Real Scots at Least in a High
land REGIMENT

iAIiO EfCSifHCtits
A short willie ago there was started
movement to have the kits of a
certain one of the British Highland
regiments discarded in favor of or
binary trousers. 1t was objected
that the men would be disconnected
at this change, and the colonel gave
orders tn: t a census of the regim INT
be taken in order to ascertain the
wishes of the men themselves. The
colonel is the descendant OF long
inc Of Scoth lairds and strives earn
eatly to uphold the old traditions.
TIE sergeant who took the census
Of the regiment finally appeared with
his report
"All the men with the exception
of three are in favor of the change,
sir" he said
"Irdeed!" the colonel said Tell
me the names of these three true
clansmen They shall be promoted"
The sergeante read from the list
They are, SIR he said, Patrick
Doolan Hans Steinbrenner and Moses
Ikenstein."
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12
A Loo Far Underground.

Wood 404 feet underground in a
perfect state Of preservation was
found at the Alabang stock farm last
week. while boring for the second ar
tesian we'll there. The drill had pene-
trated to a depth of 400 feet and
he'd just been drilling hard rock when
it suddenly struck a log which was
five feet in diameter and in perfect
state of preservation. How a log
could he so far underground and un-
ierneath a ledge of rock in perfect
condition is a question that is puz-
cling the officials of the bureau of agri-
culture.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12
is Rates Lover Than the Company's

IN old-time travelling man was talk
g of experiences of former days on
road. Frequently" said this
@2veler, Il iourneyed to Cincinnati
he fare from this city to that place
" then about So %. I saved some
ing by handing the conductor So in
8h. One day there was an excur-
on and | bought a round-trip ticket
q $1.25 or $1.50. I've forgotten the
@2ct amount, but that circumstance
iced not cripple this story.
When | handed this ticket to the
conductor as he tore off the return
coupon he looked at me, and in a
voice bethaying how deeply he was
turt he remarked: My young friend,
Cont you know that l can afford to
haul you much cheaper than this com
3any CAM"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12
Absent-minded Alderman.

A Lynn alderman at recent alder
manic meeting inquired what had be-
come of an order he had introduced
some time before calling for an arc
light on Willow street The city
clerk, after digging into his files, in
formed him that the order had come
before the board nearly month pre-
vious and that he had voted against
II
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12

Cary, Lenroot and Nelson. Three Con-
gressmen stood pat for the people in
the tariff fight now approaching its
closing stage, and thus earn the graft
tude of the citizens of Wisconsin. Of
a scant dozen Republicans who dared
to act independently, Wisconsin has the
distinction of furnishing one-quarter of
the whole. Madison Democrat.