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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-15
rPublished May 27, 1909.

No. 60, 81 rPublished May 81, 1909
CHAPTER 19S, LAWS or 1909.
AN ACT to amend section 1920 Of the
statutes, relating to the RELIEF OF soldiers,
sailors, and marines.
The people OF the State of wisconsin rep
resented In Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows
Section I. Section 1920 of the statutes
IS amended to read Section 1529d Every
county Judge shall, on or before the second
Monday In December after such report Is
made, appoint three residents 81 the
county. at least Two of whom shall be
hOnoraby discharged union soldiers or
veterans of the war with Spain one 70,
serve three years, one to serve two wears.
and one to serve one year from the date III
appointment, as "the soldiers relief com
mission" of such county.
Such commission shall be organized by
the election of one OF their number as
chairman, and one as secretary said Judge
shall I'LL all vacancies for the unexpircd
term and after the expiration Of the terms
OF those first appointed shall annually APP
point one person as a member OF such CONF
mission for the term OF three years. He
shall require the members of the commission
to execute to the county joint and several
bond, or each an individual bond, with
SUFFICIENT suretes to be approved by him,
in sum equal to the tax levied In the,
current year for expenditure BY the COM
mission said bond or bonds shall be fled
with the county clerk aS
Section 2, This act shall take effect and
be IN force from and after it's passage and
publication.
Approved May 26, 1909.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-15
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Approved May 20 1000.
.Epnhiished hIax u. lee.

30, 48G, a. T., Published May 20, 1909.
CHAPTER 176, LAWS OF 1909 &
Az ACT. to amend section 1879 of. tie stab
utes relating TO tls state hrenaen's asso-
elatfon.
me people of the State Of Wisconsin, rgp-
resented In Senate and Assembly, DO en-
act as follows
ssction. i. Section 1870 Of Tie statutes
~ amended to read Section 1879. A. The
etats 1remeh's association Of Wisconsin,
heretofore Incorporated under chapter 464
g The private and local laws Of The year
CA thousand eight hundred and sixty SIX,
"a hereby continued as body corporate,
with alI the powers and privileges now pos.
esssed By It and any person having served
for the term Of seven years In any COM
pany belonging to said association, shall
forever thereafter be exempt from poll tax,
from Jury dnCy, and from military duty,
except Ia case Of Instruction or invasion.
q No engine company OK In
dependent hose company belonging TO said
association shall OF any time exceed fifty
neH; and no look and ladder company,
forty men sB -
Section q This act shall take effOct and
be in force from and after itS Passage and
:, Approved May 20, 1909 -.. f.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-15

plicat1on IL made after an examination
OF the entire action or proceeding. It shall
appear that the error complained OF has
anected the substantial rights of the party
seeking to reverse or set aside the inag
ment, or to secure the new trial.
section 2. This act shall take effect and
publication
Approved May %, 1909.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
SULPHUR CELEBRATES
COMPLETION OF BRIDGE

Sulphur, Okla, June 19. - Three
thousand people participated yester
day in celebration held in honor OF
the completion of Washington bridge
over Rock creek. Addresses were
made by Col Greene, retiring super
intendent of the Platt national park
who spoke feelingly of his resignation;
Mayor f. Emanuel and ]. H. Casteel.
Mayor Emanuel complimented the eiti-
zens on the completion of the bridge
and the arrival of the day when fac
tions will be united.
A flag was raised over the bridge
by exConfederate and ex-Federal sol
diers and thirteen anvils were fired
as salute. The local band diseours-
ed music.
The day was notable one because
of the fact that it is the beginning of
an era of good feeling in Sulphur
Rock creek divides the business sec
ton of the city and there has been
strong rivalry between the mer-
chants of each side.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
MISSOURI RIVER
At FLOOD STAGE
Further Rise in River Extending over
Period Of Several Days
is Expected.

Kansas City, Mo, June 19.-The Mis-
souri, river stood at twenty-one feet al
the Hannibal bridge gauge at 6 O'Clock
last night 1t was steadily rising at
all points this side of Omaha and in
undating the farm lands near st. JOS
eph, Mo-, and Quindaro, Kans. The
latter place is surburb of Kansas
City, Kans
In the West Bottoms yesterday one
or two wholesale houses were working
their pumps part of the time keeping
the seepage from the river out of the
cellars. There was several inches of
water in the basement of the Aber-
nathy Furniture company's building at
1917 West Ninth street at noon yester-
day.
All of the packing houses are pro.
tected both from backwater and seep.
age The Swift, Cudahy, Schwartz
child & Sluzberger and Armour pack.
ing houses are protected by four-foot
concrete dykes. All of these dykes
are to be permanent. That about the
Armour plant is 1000 feet long. In
order for the flood waters to surmount
it the river would have to be ten feet
higher than it is at the present, or at
the thirty-one-foot stage.
According to P. Connor the weather
observer stationed at Kansas City,
both the Kaw ana Missouri rivers may
rise for several days.
They are at a very dangerous stage
just now, but will do no damage with
the amount of water coming down. /
am sure there will be no overflow un-
less we haye a heavy rain soon.
"All the rivers feding the Kaw and
Missouri are up bank full, and some
of them are doing considerable dam
age to farms, There is little to be
done at this point now but wait until
the cricis is past"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19

duction in rates, but the rate in Kan
sas is only two cents a mile"
Kansas and Missouri are not the only
states that have sent out the &C. @.
d." to save their wheat crops. Ne
braska, Oklahoma and the Dakotas
also need men. The free employment
agencies of all of these states are
working to supply the required mum
Der of farm laborers. Last week
Charles w. Harris, director of the Kan
sas State Free Employment Bureau in
Topeka. sent out blank inquiries to
ascertain the number of men needed
in the wheat belt The blanks are be-
ginning TO come in now, and il is es-
timated from these reports that Kan
sas will need between 10000 and 30,-
600 more men than there are now in
the state unemployed. Therefore, the
call has been sent to neighboring
states and to the east.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
LACK OF CLUE BATTLES
KANSAS CITY POLICE

Kansas City, Mo, June 19. = Al
though still very nervous as result
of the blow she received on the head,
Miss Anna Lee Owen, the stenogra-
pher mysteriously slugged and then
robbed of her shorthand notes last
Wednesday night, was pronounced by
her physicians to be very much i'm
proved yesterday. She did not sleep
we'll Thursday night, but spent a very
quiet day Friday, and was not allowed
to be disturbed by visitors.
The police have made no progress
toward the capture of the man who
committed the deed, and are baffled
by the lack OF a clue They express
confidence that ne will ultimately be
in custody.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
BODY OF GIRL
PACKED IN TRUNK
Cinnamon Suspected Of Brutal Murder
In New York Cannot Be
Found.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
New York, June William H.
Leon. the Chinaman in whose room
Elsie sigel was found strangled to
death and her body crowded into a
trunk, was still unfound today and it
is reported he took steamer for the
lsthmus of Panama last Friday. Paul
Sigel Elsles father, still refuses to
identify the body as that of his daugh-
ter, while the mother OF the girl has
declared articles of jewelry found in
the room with the body belonged to
ner daughter.
That Leon had other correspondents
than Miss Sigel was learned today
when fifteen hundred letters, mainly
from various white women in New
York and other cities, were found in
his room. Among them We're a num-
ber signed Elsie, of which some, the
police say, were love letters.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
MEN WANTED FOR
WHEAT HARVEST
Kansas Sends Out Usual Distress Call
For Harvest Hands-16,ooo
Are Needed.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 19.-"Send
us 10000 men" That is the cry of the
farmers of Kansas, and according to
Karl f. Schweizer superintendent of
the State Free Employment Bureau,
with Offices in the Braley building,
Tenth and McGee streets, the state
viii be asking for $4,000 in another
three weeks.
I'VE are preparing to begin sending
the men out next week" Mr. Schweiz-
er said this morning. by that time
we will know just how many men each
farmer wants and where to send them.
The railroads have not made any re-
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
SNAKES INFEST
MUSK0GEE TOWN
Despite the Fact That the Lid is Sup
posed to Be On Attorney Denton
"Sees" Venomous Reptile.

Muskogee, Okla, June 19.-Stretch-
ed out at full length and basking in the
morning sunshine, huge copperhead
snake, one of the most venomous
varieties of reptiles in this section of
the country, lay on the sidewalk at the
corner of Seventh and Broadway early
yesterday morning and was undisturb-
ed in it's enjoyment of Old Soils warm
rays until Attorney H. R. Denton
came along.
The man of law was hurrying down
town and almost stepped on his snake
ship before discovering it was a SER
pent. To Mr.. Denton it was a dis
coyery of far more consequence than
the one made when Christopher Co
lumbus focused his optics on America.
It's cinch Mr. Columbus didn't give
vent to such profound astonishment as
did Mr.. Denton.
The snake was a great big fat rep
tile, stretched out across the sidewalk
and Mr.. Denton, catching a glimpse
of the copperhead, took one big, long
jump into the atmosphere that con-
yinced him the suppleness of boyhood
days had not left him and likewise
comfortably convinced him that he
had passed beyond the danger zone.
Then he came down to earth.
A colored man who had witnessed
the extreme activity came running to
inquire the cause. When he saw the
snake his eyes fairly bulged.
Kill dat sarpint, mistah, kill him
dead. Dat suah is a pis-nous coppah-
head" exclaimed the excited darky
Being possessed of the same senti-
ment, Mr. Denton procured a long
stick and waded into the affray with
all the vim nd valor of st. Pat
rick. The snake was soon killed and
those who saw it pronounced it cop
perhead Just where is came from is
still a mystery
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
BOARD FAvORS
HOME PRODUCTS
Makes Ruling That State Supplies Be
Purchased at Home And okla
homa Laborers Employed.

Guthrie, Okla, June 19.-Rule No
8, of the state board of public affairs
will receive the hearty commentator
of all who are for the upbuilding of
home industries. The rule is to the
effect that no supplies will be pur.
chased from outside of the state where
the same can be purchased at home
without loss to the state. 1t also pro.
vides that all labor shall be performs
ed by Oklahoma laborers where posi-.
BILE Yesterday the board let the con
tract for the printing of five hundred
volumns each of the first nine vol.
umns of the Oklahoma supreme court
reports. The Muskogee Times-Demo-
crat was the lowest and best bidder
and took the job for $4,339.50 An ar
rangement was made with the tpye-
writer companies, excepting the Un.
derwood company, to furnish the state
institutions with typewriters at list
price less 10 per cent and 10 per cent
off. This is a saving on each type
writer of nine dollars below any price
yet granted to the state by the com
panies. The schools of the state have
been enjoying a price of seventy dol
lars and the new contract reduces
the price to fifty dollars. This ar
rangement will save the state an
nually from fifteen hundred to two
thousand dollars.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
CUP RACE FOR HEAVY
AUTOS IS ON TO-DAY
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Crown Point, Ind, June l9.-The cup
race for heavy stock classes began
with perfect weather at eight o'clock
this morning. Twelve cars started in
a long journey of three hundred and
ninety-fve and one half miles, or sew
enteen times around the course. Flor
ida, driving a locomobile was forced
to withdraw after the first lap by
breaking the jackshaft.
With two hundred and thirty-five
miles of the total distance covered
Robertson, in his Locomobile, was
ahead with what appeared to be a
commanding lead over Chevrolet, in
the Buick, his nearest competitor
The latter had the lead up to end of
the ninth lap but was forced to stop
for lubricant and the Locomobile forg-
ed to the front. Cars are averaging
nearly a mile a minute. Chevrolet's
time for the ninth lap being for fifty
four. Two other Buick cars, with
Strang and Burman driving, were
hopelessly in the rear while Denison's
Knox and Seymour's Apperson were
out of the race damaged.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
BELLE PHILLIPS GOES
HOME WITH HER SISTER

Belle Phillips, one of the state
prisoners paroled out of the Jail here
last Wednesday, and who refused to
leave because, as she said, she had
no place to go until some of her friends
could be heard from, left yesterday in
company with her sister for her home
in Kiowa county, the sister having
come after her. She promised Sheriff
Ridenhour that she would "be good,
and faithfully live up to the con.
ditions of her parole.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
WOUNDED TRAIN RODBER
TAKEN TO MUSKOGEE
BY Associated Press.

by Associated IfesS.
Muskogee, okla. June 19. - Paul
Williams, one of the trio that took
part in the alleged holdup of freight
train crew at Braggs, near here, yes
terday when officer Kirk was killed,
was brought here today as pre-
caution against lynching. He was
wounded three times in the breast but
physicians say he will recover.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
ESTIMATES ON NORMAL
SCHOOL BUILDINGS APPROVED

Guthrie Okla June 19.-Yesterday
the state board of affairs approved the
first estimate on the normal school
building now in the course of construc-
tion at Weatherford. Okla The state
board of affairs and the board of nor
nal regents appear to have gotten
together on this proposition.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
RACING COMMISSION CASE
GOES OVER TO SEPTEMBER
,y Associated Press

~ Associated Press.
Frankford, KY, June 19.-The court
of appeals today passed until the Sep
tember term the case of the Common
wealth VS. the Racing Commission. in
yolving the manner of placing wagers
at the Latonca track. This, it is un-
derstood, permits the Latonca to con-
tinue bookmaking.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
INCOME TAX QUESTION
TO HAVE HEARING LATER

BY Associated Press.
Washington, d. c.. June Ex-senator
Bailey, speaking for himself and most
of the democratic and republican In
come tax advocates, announced at the.
opening of the senate session today
that he would consent to postpone the
disposal of the income tax question
until after the tariff schedules were
disposed Of
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
BASEBALL MAGNATE DIES
SUDDENLY ON TRAIN

Dy Associated Press.
Xenia. Ohio, June 19. - President
George DAIRY of the Boston National
League baseball club, died on a Penn.
sylvania train between Cedarville and
Xenia early today of hemorhage OF
the lungs He was on his way to Gin
cinnati, unaccompanied.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-19
PATRICK CALHOUN'S CASE
IN HANDS OF JURY
BY Associated Press.

Dy ApSoNidltu IitSHs
San Francisco, Calf, June 19.-Con-
cuding the greatest issue in the his
tory of San Franciscos CRAFTS scandal,
the case of Patrick Calhoun, million
aire president of the United Railroads.
charged with bribery, was given to
the jury at noon today, after a six
months trial.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-08
TOAD EVIDENTLY A THINKER
Clever Maneuver by Which Batraeh.
Ian FolIed His lnveterate
Enemy, the Serpent.

The following snake story was told
some years ago by a reputable citi-
zen of Arson county: Driving along
a public road one day he saw a toad
frog crossing the road at top speed
hitting only the high places and few
Of them. AS the frog disappeared in
the bosky underbrush on one side
black snake In hot pursuit made its
appearance on the other. The story.
teller followed the two into the bushes
to see what the result would be. He
had proceeded only a short distance
when he found the frog at bay, fac
ing the snake and with the latter circ-
ling about in the effort to make an
attack from the rear. His frogship
kept turning all the time, always fac.
ing the enemy.
The reason of this maneuver on the
snakes part was that the frog had in
Its mouth, held crosswise and about
the middle. stick about the size and
ength of lead pencil. The frog knew
the snake could not swallow him so
long as he presented such a front.
The man watched the performance
for some time and when he left the
snake was still eircling the frog aud
the latter facing its enemy on every
tturn'-Charlotteville Observer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-08
POLICE WOMEN IN THE WEST
Cities Of Portland and Seattle Are
Said to Have Found the limo.
walton Satisfactory.

The cities of the west are never
afraid of innovations, says the st.
Paul dispatch. This is one explana.
ton of the existence of police women
in Portland and Seattle. The other ex.
PLANTATION must be found in the fact
that these cities have discovered that
police women are needed in the bust.
ness of maintaining order and solv.
ing problems of order In the large
cities. The old theory that men are
the criminals and must be policed by
men is giving way before the fact that
there do appear from time to time
women criminals, and especially be.
fore the fact that women can be saved
before crime fixes them permanently
In It's possession.
In Portland there Is woman on
the police force who has done efficient
work in connection with the Young
Women's Christian association - an.
other vital factor in large towns in the
ordering of the city. She had also
accomplished much as probation Off.
Ger. Having served her term in these,
the woman was ready when Portland
decided that 1t required police WON.
an. She is a regular member of the
department. with the same recogni-
ton shown to men. In Seattle there
is also police woman, although her
appointment is temporary-during the
Alaska-Y Yukon exposition. In all prob
ability, however. Seattle will find this
one police woman of such value that
she will be retained.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-08
PUT THE employees TO SLEEP
Drowslness Of Custom House Men Elk.
planned When cocoanuts Were
Examined.

Officers, clerks and japitors EN-.
plpyed by the Brownsville custom
house have for the last few days been
suffering from strange attack re.
sembling the dreaded sleeping sick
ness. and the symptoms were becom.
ing so accentuated that the matter
was getting to be serious, until this
morning a sack Of cocoanuts ad-
dressed to Chinaman at San Anto-
MO, Tex, was hauled out into the cor
raj of the custom house for more con.
venient keeping.
The sack of cocoanuts arrived by ex-
press from Tampico by way of Mon.
terey several days ago and had not
been called for.
The express messenger, baggage
master and postal clerk, all of whom
occupy the same car, were last asleep
when the train pulled into the station.
The express messenger was lying with
his head upon the sack and was the
most difficult of the three to awaken.
When 1t was found that they were
not drunk examination of the contents
of the sack was made and it was
found that one of the eocoanuts was
merely the shell, the space within con.
tanning opium. The sack was seized
by theA authorities on the Texas side
of the river and was thrown carelessly
into corner of the office room II
will frem now on. however, be stored
in the yard until it is disposed e1
through the usual NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Herald,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-08
.FRozE SOLID DURING NIGHT
Rushing Mountain Torrent sileneed
In Few Hours by the In.
tense Cold.

Running water Is usually the last
thing to freeze solid, and when 1t does
60. the cold must be extreme. j.
Claude White, in the Wide World
Magazine, gives the following descrip-
ton of this very rare occurrence
the freezing of mountain torrent in
a single night.
The phenomenon was one that
have never before experienced-a run
ming river frozen solid in night!
When we arrived the waters OF this
stream. tumbling over the great boul.
ders and rushing through the tortuous
channels. made deafening roar.
Gradually. but almost perceptibly, the
tumult decreased. while, worn out
after hard day, we fell asleep.
A few hours later, when we awoke,
deathly silence prevailed, and on
looking out. to my intense surprise, I
found that the rushing torrent of the
previous night had been transformed
into solid mass Of ice! In this re-.
gion of extreme Temperatures had
on other occasions seen torrents froz-
en-, but never under such startling
conditions. On looking round, we
found that everything we possessed
was also frozen solid, including our
saddle OF mutton, which was merely
block OF Ice. We were ravenous,
but we got no satisfaction from gnaw-
at Jumps of rock which ought to have
been succulent joint, and so, despite
our hunger, we had to content our.
selves with little tea-to make
which we melted ice-and few bis
cults.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-08
A London Problem.

They are dealing with a psychologist
cal problem in London that is not on
the cards. The problem" is nothing
legs than little baby boy in the
Wickham workhouse, scrap of
child only two years and four months
old, who no sooner has to mako
ally SERIOUS remark than he rolls forth
such 9 string Of pnmitigated hillinas.
gate that he petrifies all who hear
Aim. He 10 described as a beautiful
child with dark. soulful eyes, soft fair
hair. chubby limbs and the face of an
angel. At ordinary times his is the
best of boys. but does anything upset
his equanimity he brings into play
such volume of foul language that
De quite communicates the infant ward.
Where the baby learned to curse and
swear Is the question. 1t has been so
far mystery, as his antecedents are
unknown, and his age SO tender his
e :spehsp5siI9ast St the forms Of Ian n
guage might we'll be of the slightest,
but such does not appear to be the
case. This little workhouse baby eyi.
IDENTIFY knpws what he is talking aboYt,